Fyra belgiska medborgare dog i en bussolycka i Jordanien i dag, enligt uppgifter från det belgiska utrikesministeriet.

Eleven people arrested for planning to assault the US embassy and site near Australian embassy, according to police.

Den kongolesiske läkaren och människorättsaktivisten Denis Mukwege lämnade i dag sin hemstad Bukavu i det konfliktdrabbade östra Kongo.

Fem skadades. Troligen en halkolycka.

En 13-årig pojke har omkommit i olyckan.

alphadogg writes "The $100 million price differential between the Alcatel-Lucent and Cisco proposals to refresh California State University's 23-campus network revealed earlier this week was based on an identical number of switches and routers in various configurations. CSU allowed Network World to review spreadsheets calculating the eight-year total cost of ownership of each of the five bidders for the project. 'Everybody had to comply with this spreadsheet,' said CSU's director of cyberinfrastructure. 'Alcatel-Lucent won the project with a bid of $22 million. Cisco was the high bidder with a cost just under $123 million. Not only was Cisco's bid more than five-and-a-half times that of Alcatel-Lucent's, it was three times that of the next highest bidder: HP, at $41 million.'"

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De radikala islamister som sedan månader tillbaka kontrollerar de norra delarna av Mali, körde i dag ut med en bulldozer för att riva ner ett självständighetsmonument i staden Timbuktu.

Thousands of anti-austerity protesters held back from surrounding Madrid's legislature to denounce government cutbacks.

Hundratusentals muslimska pilgrimer från hela världen kastade sten på djävulen i den saudiska Mina-dalen i dag, i samband med den stora vallfärden hajj.

Räddningstjänsten: Det var halt på platsen.

An anonymous reader writes "A few months ago I stumbled across an interesting security hole with my webhost. I was able access any file on the server, including those of other users. When I called the company, they immediately contacted the server team and said they would fix the problem that day. Since all you need when calling them is your username, and I was able to list out all 500 usernames on the server, this was rather a large security breach. To their credit, they did patch the server. It wasn't a perfect fix, but close enough that moving to a new web host was moved down on my list of priorities. Jump a head to this week: they experienced server issues, and I asked to be moved to a different server. Once it was done, the first thing I did was run my test script, and I was able to list out everyone's files again. The hosting company only applied the patch to old server. I'm now moving off this web host all together. However, I do fear for the thousands of customers that have no clue about this security issue. With about 10 minutes of coding, someone could search for the SQL connection string and grab the username/password required to access their hosting account. What's the best way to handle this type of situation?"

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