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Firefox is five years old. Five years ago, Microsoft seemed to have an absolute lock on the browser market with Internet Explorer, having long ago crushed Netscape. The browser wars were over. Or so it seemed.

According to Net Applications' Market Share, 64.6 percent of Web users run Internet Explorer, compared to 24 percent running Mozilla's Firefox. Other browsers like Apple's Safari, Google's Chrome, and Opera have another 10 percent of the market. Two years ago, IE controlled almost 80 percent of the browser market and Firefox had only 15 percent.

According to research from IDC, a provider of market intelligence for the information technology, telecommunications, and consumer technology markets, by 2011, the digital universe will be 10 times the size it was in 2006. "The Diverse and Exploding Digital Universe: An Updated Forecast of Worldwide Information Growth Through 2011" highlights several findings that will affect individuals and business around the world in the years to come, such as:

* At 281 billion gigabytes (281 exabytes), the digital universe in 2007 was 10 percent bigger than originally estimated.

Day one of the Black Hat Security Conference in Las Vegas got off to a hot start with details about DNS and e-mail flaws, Google gaffes, and Cisco vulnerabilities. And some French reporters were kicked out for trying to hack the pressroom facilities.

The Black Hat conference is the premiere conference for the latest in security news and tools. Nearly 7,000 attendees are listening to presentations on phishing, hacking and malware, and many are taking comprehensive training on the latest security tools and techniques to protect their networks.