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The full report is linked.

IBM Internet Security Systems X-Force®
2008 Mid-Year Trend Statistics (PDF)

IBM Internet Security Systems has published their Mid-Year Trend Statistics report which among other things, highlights trends in malware and phishing, and ranks vendors, open source projects, and even languages by security breach disclosures.

The fact that Drupal, along with Joomla and wordpress have made it onto their list is testament to how far open source projects like those three have gone in the last few years. Like most sensible people, I'm on the Drupal security announcement mailing list, so, if any vulnerabilities are identified we all know about them very quick.

Hi there,

I am founder of Danay Themes for Drupal. Today, we have announced a completely free theme for Drupal 5.x (Danay Basic Theme for Drupal). Please use the comment form to share your opinion, possible theme bugs and improvement proposals.

Get Danay Basic Theme

After a review of available CMS packages, including a quantitative breakdown of their various strengths, the UM library chose Drupal:

"In the end, though, it was Drupal's strengths in terms of its modular construction, very lively development community, and the number of large academic libraries using it that led our decision."

Drupal: MLibrary's Future CMS

Our non-profit, the Collaboration Foundation, is a finalist for a $10,000 Ideablob grant. If we win, the grant will be used to build an innovative non-profit Drupal site that will look something like this: http://collaborationfoundation.org/preview.html

To win, we need votes. We're currently in 2nd...

Please vote here:
http://ideablob.com/ideas/1247-The-Collaboration-Foundation-C

About The Collaboration Foundation
The Collaboration Foundation is a grassroots non-profit arts organization that grew from The 1 Second Film project (currently runs on Drupal). The 1 Second Film has over 10,000 participants in 59 countries. Apple recently donated over $25K in computers to support the project. Our goal is to build an innovative platform for global collaborative art and social-change on a scale only possible when people work together. Our Board of Directors includes Albert Maysles, Juli Taymor, Stephen Nemeth, and Ben Goldhirsh. For more info, please visit www.collaborationfoundation.org

What We Will do With the $10K
Funds will be used to build a collaborative Drupal site that will connect artists/projects with a global community of participants. Large-scale collaborative projects will provide platforms to address various social issues. Site Preview: http://collaborationfoundation.org/preview.html

There is a new release of the diggthis module for Drupal 6. Version 2 offers the following new features: