Majoritet i generalförsamlingen röstade ja.

Palestina får status som observatörsstat i FN efter att en majoritet i generalförsamlingen röstat ja.

The Bad Astronomer writes "Just in time for the holiday season, the NASA space probe MESSENGER appears to have all but confirmed the existence of ice at Mercury's north pole. Ice has long been suspected to be hiding in permanently shadowed areas in deep craters at the planet's pole, but new data show several converging lines of evidence (thermal and visible light mapping, radar, neutron emission) that as much as a trillion tons of ice may be buried just centimeters deep under the surface. Scientists also see evidence of organic (carbon-based) molecules as well. That's not life, but it's more of an indication that volatile compounds can exist on the solar system's innermost planet." Further, astroengine writes "New results from the MESSENGER spacecraft not only confirm that the planet closest to the sun has ice inside shaded craters near the north pole, but that a thin layer of very dark organic material seems to be covering a good part of the frozen water. Both likely arrived via comets or asteroids millions — or hundreds of millions — of years ago."

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Bildt bekräftar på sin blogg.

En man beväpnad med en pistol rånade en videobutik i Helsingborg i kväll.

”Borde ta tillbaka beslutet”.

Readycharged writes "A generations' childhood dreams have come true with the creation of a working "robot in disguise" Transformer which, when operated by remote control, morphs from a luxury sports car to a missile hurling robot in seconds. Japanese inventor, Kenji Ishida, is planning to make 10 lucky (and undoubtedly rich) purchasers owners of these toys in the run up to Christmas, having first displayed them at the Maker Faire in Tokyo during the first week of December. For those willing to wait a few years, Ishida plans to have created a life size, drivable model by 2030."

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Nerval's Lobster writes "While Microsoft claims it's sold 40 million Windows 8 licenses in the month since launch—a more rapid pace than Windows 7—new data from research firm The NPD Group suggests that isn't helping sales of actual Windows devices, which, in its estimation, are down 21 percent from last year. Desktops dropped 9 percent year-over-year, while notebooks fell 24 percent. 'After just four weeks on the market, it's still early to place blame on Windows 8 for the ongoing weakness in the PC market,' Stephen Baker, vice president of industry analysis at The NPD Group, wrote in a Nov. 29 statement attached to the data. 'We still have the whole holiday selling season ahead of us, but clearly Windows 8 did not prove to be the impetus for a sales turnaround some had hoped for.'" That seems to match the public grumbling of Acer and Asus about early sales. And though these figures exclude Surface sales, the newly announced prices on for new Windows 8 Pro-equipped Surface tablets might not endear them to anyone. Have you (or has your business?) moved to Windows 8?

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Constituent assembly begins approving articles of disputed new constitution, with opposition set to continue protests.

Overview

Our feature this week introduces Dr. Ullrichs newest system addition addressing wide spread reports of SSH scans. This system collects logs you submit via a special API URL. We keep receiving reports from readers about wide spread ssh scans. This system was setup to get a better handle on these scans. http://isc.sans.edu/sshreports.html Reporting will be released as soon as there is enough information collected.



Features


Reports are POSTed to https://isc.sans.edu/api/sshreports

Parameters are userid, authkey, data(tab-delimited log data)

XML status OK returned on successful submission


This only accepts data. Validation and processing are done at a later time






There is currently a PERL script to collect data from the kippo honeypot available at https://isc.sans.edu/kipposcript.pl

Post suggestions or comments in the section below or send us any questions or comments in the contact form on https://isc.sans.edu/contact.html#contact-form

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Polis och säkerhetsstyrkor har angripit den omfattande brottsligheten i den brasilianska megastaden Sao Paulos kåkstäder och gripit över 100 personer den senaste månaden.