denial of service

In response to the reports on the vulnerability recently discovered in the latest version of Firefox on Sunday Mozilla made a statement saying that the bug is not exploitable. As is known last Thursday the company released a new version of its browser Firefox 3.5.1 which fixed a number of security holes in version 3.5 launched in June.

According to the Department of Homeland Security, there were 5,499 known breaches of U.S. government computers with malicious software last year, comparing to 3,928 in 2007, and 2,172 in 2006, reports the Associated Press.

It seems hackers have become a serious problem for most governments. The Pentagon reported it spent more than $100 million in the last six months as a result of damage from cyber attacks and other computer network problems.