Monday, October 8, 2012

Syria vows to 'crush' rebels, launches new attacks

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad greets military officers in a ceremony marking the anniversary of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war in Damascus, Syria, Saturday, October 6, 2012. (AP Photo/SANA)

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad greets military officers in a ceremony marking the anniversary of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war in Damascus, Syria, Saturday, October 6, 2012. (AP Photo/SANA)

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, a Russian plane carrying medical aid supplies is unloaded at the international airport in the Syrian capital Damascus on Saturday, October 6, 2012. The Russian government said the medicines and equipment had been approved by the Syrian Health Ministry. (AP Photo/SANA)

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, a Russian plane carrying medical aid supplies is unloaded at the international airport in the Syrian capital Damascus on Saturday, October 6, 2012. The Russian government said the medicines and equipment had been approved by the Syrian Health Ministry. (AP Photo/SANA)

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad lays a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier marking the anniversary of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war in Damascus, Syria, Saturday, October, 6, 2012. (AP Photo/SANA)

(AP) ? Syria's military will "crush" armed rebels, President Bashar Assad's defense minister warned Saturday, as the regime shelled rebel positions in two cities and near the Lebanese border in a widening offensive.

Neighboring Turkey, meanwhile, set new rules of engagement after three shells from Syria hit Turkish territory Saturday. Turkey retaliated with artillery, as it has for the past four days, and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said this would now be the standard response.

Davutoglu insisted that "we haven't taken a step toward war," but Turkey's threat to fire back for each errant Syrian shell was bound to keep border tensions high. Turkey is one of Assad's harshest critics and a key supporter of Syria's opposition.

The latest Syria-Turkey crisis erupted earlier this week, after a Syrian shell killed five civilians in a Turkish border town.

The Syrian regime has apologized and tried to defuse tensions by pulling some tanks back from the border, according to a Turkish Foreign Ministry official who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with government regulations.

Still, the week's daily cross-border exchanges have heightened fears of a regional conflagration.

Syrian mortar rounds are likely to hit Turkey again as regime forces try to retake rebel-controlled areas near the border. Two of the shells that fell in Turkey on Saturday were fired in clashes between government troops and opposition fighters in a Syrian border village.

Syria's civil war has been stalemated for months, but Syrian Defense Minister Gen. Fahd Jassem al-Freij insisted Saturday that the regime is gaining the upper hand.

The government denies it is facing a home-grown rebellion, saying it is being targeted by a foreign conspiracy against the regime's support for anti-Israeli groups.

"The most dangerous parts of the conspiracy have ... passed and the killing is on its way to decline," said al-Freij, who was named to the job after his predecessor was assassinated in July. He offered amnesty to rebels who repent but said those who don't "will be crushed under the feet of our soldiers."

The Syrian president, meanwhile, made a rare public appearance Saturday to commemorate the anniversary of the outbreak of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, also known as the October War.

Assad laid a wreath at the country's statue of the Unknown Soldier in Damascus, then passed along a line of saluting army commanders in dress uniform, shaking hands with each. The ceremony, broadcast live on Syrian TV, seemed designed to show Assad remains in control.

Syria's state-run news agency SANA linked Saturday's anniversary to the current conflict, saying that in both cases "Syria is facing an enemy armed with Western and Israeli weapons."

Along with regime's new warnings to the rebels, Syrian troops backed by warplanes and combat helicopters launched attacks on rebel-held areas near the Syrian town of Quseir, close to Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, on Saturday, Lebanese security officials said.

Opposition activists also reported intense government shelling in the northern city of Aleppo, Syria's largest and a commercial hub, and in the central city of Homs.

The battlefield stalemate is most apparent in those two cities.

Syrian forces have been bombing and shelling from a distance but have been unable to dislodge opposition fighters holed up in devastated neighborhoods. Retaking Aleppo and Homs could give the regime some breathing room.

In Aleppo, government forces gained some ground in recent house-to-house combat, according to an Associated Press journalist in the city.

On Saturday, government troops captured the city's Sakhour roundabout after days of heavy fighting, a Syrian official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

Heavy shelling also was reported in Taibeh, a town near Homs, an early center of the uprising. Opposition activists said at least 10 people were killed and dozens wounded.

Amateur video from Taibeh, posted Saturday, showed several badly disfigured bodies being pulled from the back of a pickup truck by distraught bystanders. One body was carried away on a red stretcher.

In another video, masked rebel fighters posed with assault rifles in what they said is an air defense base east of Damascus they captured earlier in the week.

The video showed captured weapons, including anti-aircraft missiles, heavy machine guns and large-caliber ammunition. The rebels surrounded a group of captured regime soldiers. The captives, some with bandages on their heads, each stood up and gave their rank and name.

The authenticity of such videos cannot be confirmed independently because Syria imposes tight restrictions on foreign journalists.

In a success for the opposition activists said, rebel fighters took control of the village of Khirbet el-Jouz in Syria's northwestern Idlib province, about 16 kilometers (10 miles) from the Turkish town of Guvecci.

Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency said that rebels planted their flag on the roof of a building that had been used as a base by regime troops in the village. The takeover came after intense clashes, with mortar shells exploding at a relentless pace, some near the Turkish border, Anadolu said.

Two of the mortars from that battle landed in Turkey, and a third shell hit later in another village in Turkey's Hatay province. No casualties were reported, but Turkish forces returned fire each time, according to Anadolu and the Hatay governor's office.

Earlier this week, Turkey's parliament approved such retaliation, expanding Turkey's response options. Turkey's leaders have reiterated that they don't want war with Syria, but another dramatic or deadly border incident could force unwanted escalation.

In another international entanglement, Assad ally Iran appealed to rebel backers Turkey and Qatar to help release 48 Iranians purportedly being held by Syrian rebels since August.

In amateur video posted late Thursday, rebels threatened to kill the captives by the end of the weekend unless the regime halts military operations against the opposition.

Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi spoke by phone Saturday with the Qatari prime minister and the Turkish foreign minister and received assurances they would try to help, Iran's state news agency IRNA reported.

Iran says those abducted were pilgrims visiting a Shiite shrine in Damascus. The Syrian opposition claims they are members of the elite Revolutionary Guard helping the Syrian regime.

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Associated Press writer Suzan Fraser in Ankara, Turkey, Ali Akbar Dareini in Tehran, Iran, and Bassem Mroue in Beirut contributed reporting.

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How can I help a friend who's spreading malware?

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Q.?One of my friends recently sent some pretty suspicious links to his entire address book and his friends on Facebook. He sent another message later to say he didn't do it, but doesn't know how it happened, and to tell everyone not to open links from him. How can I help him get his computer straight, and make sure notes I get from him are safe to click? ?

A. It's admirable of you to actually take an interest in helping your friend fix this problem, especially after you've been on the business end of whatever's going on with his system. Thankfully, it's not too difficult to fix them up without getting caught up in the quagmire of being someone's in-pocket computer support person. If you care enough to lend a helping hand, here's how you can do it.

Make sure there's actually a problem first

First of all, make sure your friend has actually asked for your help. Offer it if you want, but if they turn you down, don't press and focus on your own security. If your friend's address has been spoofed by spammers, there may be nothing anyone can do about it except relax and know that it'll all blow over. If your friend is inadvertently sending Facebook messages to friends, there may be a bigger problem or their account may be hacked. Here are a couple of ways you can make sure there's actually something to help your friend with before you stick your nose in:

  • Check the offending emails to see if your friend is the source. If suspicious email is the problem, check the mail headers to make sure the email actually came from your friend, and not someone who's spoofing their name or email address. How you do this varies among email apps, but we cover most of the big ones here. Keep in mind that even if your friend isn't the source, that doesn't mean they're in the clear.?
  • Ask your friend how they found out about the problem. Make sure "address book" and "all Facebook friends" doesn't translate to "one person." Ask them to check their Sent Items and Sent Messages on Facebook to see if the messages were sent from their account versus some other application somewhere else. Ask them when the last time they've changed their passwords are, or whether they use different passwords for different services. That could be the problem right there???but before you go telling them to change their passwords, we have some more work to do first.

Clean up your friend's computer (and their behavior!)

Buckle?up, we're going malware hunting. The first step is to wrangle all of the computers your friend uses, scrub them clean, and review their commonly used Web?apps and Web services to make sure they're not compromised. You can walk your friend through these steps, or if you're not nearby or want to hold their hand a bit, grab your favorite screen-sharing or remote desktop tool and connect to their computer directly. Make sure to talk them through this though???you're teaching them to fish, not giving them one.

  • Find out how many computers your friend uses, and where they've logged in to the offending services. If your friend is sending IMs with spam links in them, find out where they use that screen name. If the problem is Facebook messages, ask them out where they log in to Facebook, or better yet, direct them to Facebook's account security page and ask them to review their active sessions for any unfamiliar locations. You may also want to have them turn on two-factor authentication and login approvals, so every time someone tries to log in at a new location, they'll have to authorize it. If they're a Gmail user, Gmail can show you where you logged in last as well. If you or your friend see anything unusual, go ahead and log them all out. While you're in their account security settings, make sure you disable or remove apps or third-party services you no longer use (and that may be posting on your behalf.) Here's how to do this on Facebook, and on Twitter.
  • Scan the offending computers for malware. How you go about this is up to you, but we loveMicrosoft Security Essentials for Windows. If your friend is using a Mac, they probably don't have virus protection, but you'll need some to scan their email and avoid sending malware to others. Scan anyway, just to be sure. Finally, even if the issue isn't a virus or trojan of some kind, it could be some other malware or adware that requires a different scanner to remove. Make sure you scrub that system nice and clean, and show your friend how to use and update their antivirus and anti-malware tools if they haven't been.
  • Once the system is clean, start changing passwords (or better yet, get a password manager!) Only after you've made sure your friend's computer is good and clean and free of any malware that may be watching what he's doing should you encourage them to change their passwords and practice good password hygiene. At this point, it's most important to change the passwords to the services they're having problems with???whether it's AIM, their email account, their Facebook account, or whatever other service is sending out spam or malware under their name. Push them to strong, separate passwords for different services, two-factor authentication wherever possible, and, if they're overwhelmed by all of the rules, suggest a password manager like LastPass or Dashlane that makes it easy to audit, reset, and manage passwords for multiple services on multiple devices.
  • Watch carefully. Okay, so we have added security enabled on Web?apps and services, a clean computer?and freshly changed (and now secure, separate) passwords. Now it's time to watch and see if the issue recurs. If it does, make sure you didn't miss a computer somewhere (like a work PC, or a kid's system logged in under their name.) Odds are, it won't???even if the original issue wasn't due to a hack or phishing attempt and was simple, blind spoofing instead, your friend has now vastly improved their personal security, which is a win in our book. Also make sure nothing else suspicious happens???depending on what the root cause was, whether it was a trojan or a hacked account or a keylogger of some kind, whoever has your information may try to use it offline as well.?

The area we haven't really addressed in these steps are mobile devices, and largely because mobile threats are?on the rise, but beyond obtaining physical access to your device, the best protection for your mobile are?common sense?and?built-in security tools. There?are some options?though.

Upgrade your own security, too

You've taken this opportunity to teach your friend how to secure their system, and possibly how to remove a lurking threat that's been with them all along, which is great! Your friend is lucky that the issue was only some spam emails or suspicious IMs or Facebook messages, and not something like wholesale identity theft, or a Mat Honan-scale hack, but eternal vigilance doesn't end with you teaching someone else how to protect themselves. Make sure you're buttoned up too.

Whether you inadvertently clicked on a link your friend sent you or you just noticed it, make sure to take your own good advice and audit your password security, get a password manager that works for you, and that your own anti-virus and anti-malware tools are up to date and running regular scans. If you choose to fly without a net and you don't have anti-virus installed, you can still do with the occasional scan with a Web?app like Trend Micro's Housecall, and make sure you're keeping apps like Flash and Java up to date to avoid the inevitable holes and zero-day exploits that turn up for them every other week.

With a little effort, you'll have added two users to the pool of users who know how to take care of their security, and who hopefully won't have significant security problems ever again.

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Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/technolog/how-can-i-help-friend-whos-spreading-malware-6213730

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Thurston home sales rise 17 percent in September - The Business ...

Rolf Boone/The Business Blog ? Published October 07, 2012 Modified October 07, 2012

Thurston home sales rose by a double-digit margin in September, making it the third consecutive month in which sales have shown significant increases, according to new Northwest Multiple Listing Service data.

On a year-over-year basis, home sales rose 14 percent in July, 27 percent in August and 17.48 percent in September, according to the combined single-family residence and condo data released by the Northwest MLS. Sales increased to 289 units last month from 246 units in September 2001.

Although sales rose in September, median prices fell 4.07 percent to $211,000 last month from $219,950 in September 2011, the combined data show. Pending sales were flat in the same year-over-year period, while the total number of homes for sale fell 26 percent and new listings in September fell to 323 units from 398 units.

Here is the single-family residence data for September 2012/2011:

-Sales rose 19.67 percent to 286 units from 239 units.

-Median prices fell 4.29 percent to $212,475 from $222,000.

-Pending sales rose 2.3 percent to 311 units from 304 units.

-Number of residences for sale fell 27 percent to 1,222 units from 1,674 units.

-Number of new listings in September fell to 313 units from 388 units.

Here is the condo data for September 2012/2011:

-Sales fell to three units from seven units.

-Median prices rose to $112,000 from $89,000.

-Pending sales fell to six units from 10 units.

-Number of condos for sale fell 12.86 percent to 61 units from 70 units.

-Number of new condo listings in September was unchanged at 10 units.

Source: http://www.theolympian.com/2012/10/07/2277104/thurston-home-sales-rise-17-percent.html

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Monday, September 24, 2012

Chemist may hold key to building a better toxin 'mousetrap'

ScienceDaily (Sep. 24, 2012) ? A Florida State University chemist's work could lead to big improvements in our ability to detect and eliminate specific toxic substances in our environment.

Featured on the cover of the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS), Sourav Saha's specialized work to strip electrons from the toxic chemical known as fluoride is producing a variety of unique results.

"I started out with the very basic premise of trying to find new ways to detect toxic fluoride in solutions," said Saha, an assistant professor of chemistry at Florida State. "As I got further into that work I was able to create a compound that could actually strip the electrons right off the molecule, producing a variety of tangible benefits such as toxin detection and removal."

Saha's initial fluoride-detection work led to a $100,000 grant from the Petroleum Research Foundation to further explore the possibilities of his research. Using that money, he was able to bring in additional expertise and build his "fluoride-robbing" compound that is the central feature of the work featured on the JACS cover.

"This work is very exciting and novel because the results are surprising," said Timothy Logan, chairman of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Florida State. "Molecules always have affinity for electrons, with some molecules having a greater affinity than others. Flouride has the highest electron affinity of all, so the ability to strip off electrons from fluoride, especially in the presence of other molecules with lower electron affinity, is truly unique."

Although Saha is excited about the possibilities of his new compound in toxin cleanup, he sees a huge variety of potential applications for his research.

"I think toxin removal is one of the most obvious and relatable benefits my work could lead to, but in reality, there are many additional implications this work could have on daily life," Saha said. "For instance, we could develop this research to create all new types of plastics that could exhibit unique qualities, or improve the effectiveness of devices, such as batteries, that are used to store and transfer energy."

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  1. Samit Guha, Flynt S. Goodson, Lucas J. Corson, Sourav Saha. Boundaries of Anion/Naphthalenediimide Interactions: From Anion?? Interactions to Anion-Induced Charge-Transfer and Electron-Transfer Phenomena. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2012; 134 (33): 13679 DOI: 10.1021/ja303173n

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GOP backer Adelson accused of commandeering Israel's media market

Casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, who has poured millions into GOP coffers, also bankrolls a pro-Netanyahu Israeli newspaper that could transform the media market.

By Joshua Mitnick,?Correspondent / September 24, 2012

Casino owner Sheldon Adelson attends a campaign fundrasing event with Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney at Red Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Friday, Sept. 21.

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Casino?mogul Sheldon Adelson grabbed the spotlight in the US earlier this year for making multi-million dollar campaign contributions to Republican presidential candidates on the bet that their policies would better jibe with those of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu than with President Obama's.?

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In Israel, Mr. Adelson is better known as the force behind the five-year-old free newspaper, "Yisrael Hayom" (Israel Today), which is seen by some as the Israeli print equivalent of Fox News. Touting Israeli patriotism, it is among the most widely read newspapers in the country and has a reputation for its fiercely loyal coverage of Mr. Netanyahu ? and now Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney.

Adelson rejects accusations of bias, insisting in a previous interview that his paper is a "fair and balanced" alternative to other newspapers more critical of the government and that he is breaking rival newspaper Yediot Ahranot's monopoly on the market. Many Israelis nonetheless see the paper as a political vehicle to support the prime minster, and now, American Republican politicians. And with other newspapers floundering financially while Adelson puts his substantial wealth behind Yisrael Hayom, some worry that he is squeezing other political ideologies out of the market.?

"You can see completely biased coverage always emphasizing good news for the Republicans, or always hiding or eliminating bad news for the Republicans," says Oren Persico, who writes a daily analysis of print news coverage for Israel?s media magazine "The Seventh Eye." "It's one-sided, so Israelis will stand behind Romney."

An opinion poll conducted by?Hebrew University and?released yesterday showed Mr. Romney with an eight percentage point advantage?over Mr. Obama among Israelis ? 34 percent to 26 percent, with 20 percent undecided. Another opinion poll from earlier this month suggested that the gap was more than two to one.?

While it is impossible to discern the exact role Yisrael Hayom plays in shaping those opinions, its critical take on Obama and its upbeat coverage of the Republican campaign stand out from the rest of Israeli media coverage of US politics.?

For example, the day after the Romney campaign was rocked by a video of the candidate making disparaging remarks about Americans who pay no income tax, Yisrael Hayom featured a front page opinion piece alleging the US is a declining empire and?accusing Obama of "voluntarily lowering the profile"?of the US and fueling unrest in Arab countries. The story about the video was on page 23.?

A day later, the newspaper wrote in a subhead that "commentators think the affair will help" and quoted conservative columnist Ann Coulter saying that Romney comments were on the mark. Today the newspaper acknowledged that the video is having a negative impact on public opinion of Romney, but cited "optimism from surveys" indicating that the Republican candidate remains close in the polls, despite the uproar.

Yisrael Hayom is not the only paper that comes across as promoting a particular political agenda in Israel. News coverage in the liberal newspaper Haaretz, for example, is known to be sympathetic to the US president and heavily critical of Netanyahu.?But critics of Yisrael Hayom say the fact that the paper has never reported a profit is further evidence that the goal of the paper is primarily political rather than a business enterprise.?

Nahum Barnea, an Israel Prize laureate columnist who works for rival newspaper Yediot Ahronot, has denounced Yisrael Hayom as a paper with no business model that serves the interest of "one man" and is undermining Israeli democracy by making it impossible for for-profit newspapers to compete.

And as Yisrael Hayom has surged in readers, other Israeli papers that need to make money in order to stay afloat have struggled ? yesterday, the cash-strapped daily newspaper Ma?ariv?was sold to Shlomo Ben Zvi, the owner of another right wing newspaper, who announced plans to lay off most of the staff.?

"For many years, the media was dominated by left-of-center views and families supporting the Labor party," says Mitchell Barak, an Israeli pollster. But today the paper?s sympathetic coverage of US Republicans?has a natural audience in Israel, he says.?

"In general, Israelis have been disappointed with the promise and hope of Obama. That?s not specific to Yisrael Hayom."

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