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iLife for iOS now has a third app, with a surprisingly rich iPhoto making its debut. Garageband and iMovie for iOS both got welcome tweaks as well. And, rounding things out, a few other Apple apps for iOS received minor updates, too.

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Erik Sønstelie s dotter överlevde på Utøya.

Recently, I noticed a remarkable decrease in remote file inclusion attacks against my web servers. Usually, I easily detected 100+ attacks per day using a simple regular expression match. These days, I see maybe a dozen (and they are usually only 2-3 distinct attacks meaning different exploits or different attackers.
The number of vulnerabilities exploited also decreased a lot, with many of the older vulnerabilities being no longer probed.
Have all vulnerable systems been exploited or cleaned up? These attacks where never very effective, and a lot of exploits used would not have been successful even against vulnerable systems. In addition, the attacks where usually launched blindly without recognizance, leading to a lot of hits to non existent pages.
For the few attacks still out there, the pattern doesn't have changed much. I checked out a couple of the payloads and they are either simple indicators or PHP IRC bots.
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Johannes B. Ullrich, Ph.D.

SANS Technology Institute

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Fjällräddare kunde på onsdagskvällen undsätta en pojke född 1995 som rapporterats försvunnen under en skotertur mellan Inviken i Jämtland och Borgafjäll i Västerbotten.

I kväll anhölls två personer för mordet på en 20-årig man i Göteborg.

jsuda writes "For those billions of people for whom the current political-economic system doesn't work–the Occupy Wall Street people, the Tea Partiers, the 99%-ers and have-nots, the middle and lower classes, and the rest of the unwashed masses, Occupy World Street is a starburst of enlightenment and a practical vision of hope for a new and advanced society." Read on for jsuda's review