Mozilla puts $500 bounty on 'most wanted' bug arrests

Users of Mozilla software who come across critical security bugs in the program are being encouraged to report the problems to Mozilla - and receive a $500 bounty per bug. The bounty programme has been introduced with backing from venture capitalist Mark Shuttleworth and from Linux distro Lindows. The announcement of the scheme comes at an important time for the Mozilla Foundation. ...more

Cisco claims security message is being heard

In the build up to London's InfoSec IT security show, it might seem unusual for a company to tout a rosy picture for IT security, but Cisco claims three in four Chief Security Officers and IT Directors say their companies are more secure than they were a year ago. Polling 100 senior executives responsible for the security of their organisation, the survey showed that security is no longer on the back burner. Only 23 per cent thought the issue was not recongised at a boardroom level and only 11 per cent considered their strategies as reactive. ...more

Europe goes PDA crazy

Europeans have bought more than a million PDAs in three months, according to the latest figures from research group Canalys. The fourth quarter of 2003 turned out to be the first time handheld sales topped a million, with HP emerging as the clear leader, accounting for a third of shipments. But while HP took the lead for PDA shipments, Palm's market share fell lower than 25 per cent. ...more

100Gb in a shirt pocket

Taiwanese researchers have developed an optical storage disc the same size as a CD or DVD but capable of storing up to 100Gb of data. This far outstrips the 650Mb capacity of a CD and the 9.4Gb of DVD and compares favourably with the largest, 120Gb hard drives around at the moment. ...more

Napster claims half a million subscribers

The former bad boy of peer to peer networking, Napster says that it has doubled the number of subscribers to its legal service in the past 12 months. The total number of subscribers now stands at over half a million. The company says that it also has some 50,000 college students in the US who receive a 'free' service as part of their tuition fees. ...more