The popular Internet Explorer rival, Firefox by Mozilla Foundation has marked its 150 million downloads milestone.Despite being hit by memory consumption and instablilty problems, the open source browser is gaining fans. The main attraction of Firefox is its tabbed browsing and the many extensions developed by enthusiastic fans. Firefox is about to get a strong rivalry from it's Microsoft competitor, which will include many new features including tabbed browsing in the new IE 7.W3schools browser statistics shows  that Firefox has around 25% of the

MySpace and other community sites which are used frequently by kids and teenagers are an easy place for sex offenders to find their victims.Recent evidence show that social "friends making" websites are being used to seduce kids. For example, Police in Middletown, Conn., are investigating recent reports that as many as seven local girls were sexually assaulted by men in their 20s who contacted them through MySpace pretending to be teenagers.Moreover, Last month, 14-year-old Judy Cajuste was found strangled and naked in a Newark, N.J., garbage bin. Police seized a computer from her bedroom after friends said she told them of a man in his 20s she met on MySpace.

Identity management solutions tackle the problem of having to remember passwords and insert personal information again and again in an unsecured way when registering to new websites.With identity management solution, users only give their personal information to the service once and then authorize the service to securely transfer relevant part of their personal information to websites. This way the users don't have to remember separate passwords for different services and their personal information is transferred and stored in a secured way.Microsoft has recently demoed a new technology called InfoCard which will replace its Passport solution.

Winner of Mac hacking contest says Mac OS X has a lot of unpublished exploits. Moreover, the reason that Mac is considered more secure than other OSs is because of its low market share, which reduces the incentive of hackers to break it. "On February 22, a Sweden-based Mac enthusiast set his Mac Mini as a server and invited hackers to break through the computer's security and gain root control, which would allow the attacker to take charge of the computer and delete files and folders or install applications."  The hacker, calling himself gwerdna says "Mac OS X is easy pickings for bug finders.