An unclassified Powerpoint presentation, made by the FBI, contains details about potential security risks, related to counterfeit network equipment. Cisco branded routers and switches, imported from China, have been identified as low-quality and possibly dangerous imitations of original products.

Google overtook Yahoo as the most popular online destination in the USA, according to the latest statistics by comScore. 141 million Americans visited Google online properties in April, compared to 140.6 million visitors for Yahoo. The search engine giants are followed by Microsoft's network of websites, with 121.2 million visitors, and AOL, which attracted 111.2 million people.

A programmer's error has caused a serious security flaw in the popular Debian Linux distribution. All SSL and SSH cryptographic keys, generated on a Debian platform since September 2006, are to be considered potentially compromised. Experts say they will need to recreated from scratch after a fix to the OpenSSL package is applied. The official security advisory, containing link to detector for known weak keys, is available here.

Techcrunch reports that the Mozilla Corporation is working on a "stealth" web analytics project, which will integrate with the Firefox web browser. The new metrics solution aims to provide accurate and accessible data about website traffic and usage.

According to the article, the project is in a very early stage of development and does not have an official name yet. It will measure site traffic for Firefox users only, but with a market share estimated between 20% and 40% (depending on geographic location and study method), the open source browser provides an impressive user base, and a corresponding large data set.

If you are in the market for a solid state drive (SSD), you might as well hurry up, because Google has started buying. Unnamed sources are reporting that the search engine giant has ordered from Intel the first batches of SSDs for use in the company's HQ.

PHP 6, currently under active development, will include full support for Unicode strings, in effect allowing the use of non-ASCII characters in PHP scripts, alphabetical sorting across different alphabets, and more. This will be useful to web developers worldwide -- Unicode maps the characters of all human languages, and the list of new additions (and removals) is likely to ensure the continued wide usage of this programming language.