div style="float:right;"img border=0 title="Samsung WiTu Going To Russia" alt="Samsung WiTu Going To Russia" src="http://www.uberphones.com/photos/2008/12/samsung-witu-1.jpg" hspace="5" vspace="5" //div pSamsung will be bringing its i900 Omnia to Russia and it will be branded as the Samsung WiTu. While it might sound radically different from the Omnia, it’s basically the same phone, aside from the fact that there won’t be an 8GB model being offered, so you’ll have to get the 16GB one. The Samsung WiTu will include widgets for quick access to popular Russian sites./p pPermalink: a href="http://www.uberphones.com/2008/12/samsung_witu_going_to_russia/"Samsung WiTu Going To Russia/a from a href="http://www.uberphones.com"Uberphones/a | a href="http://www.uberbargain.com/"Good deals/a | Hot: a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2008/11/blackberry_storm_review.html"BlackBerry Storm/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/P6LhkexFdznDh1iueKJwmP0f-KA/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/P6LhkexFdznDh1iueKJwmP0f-KA/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

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An interview with a Dev team member has been released a hungarian website and I managed to find an english version of it.

Its not planetbeing or any other main ones but its still cool to get an insight of what these guys are doing cos they normally never do interviews.
Anyways, here is it,

First of all congrats for the job you did so far, but I think you already know that half of the world is supporting you!
Thanks! Me and my wife read your blog, and after you wrote about the Dev Team, we thought it would be a good idea to find you. Your blog is the first hungarian language blog or newsportal we communicate to directly.
Special thanks for that. Let’s start with who the members of the Dev Team (no names of course) are, and how you organize your work since you are living in different countries, continents.
Members of the Dev Team are software, electronics and cryptographics professionals from all over the world. The members of the team - or much more, the core - are from Hungary, France, Belgium, England, Russia, Israel, Ukraine and the USA. We work in a way, that we distribute our work files among us, and with team work, we put the ideas together. The average age is about 30 years old. Most of us don’t know each others name and never met each other.

How many are you?
Everyone has a full time job - and of course this has influence on the Dev Team’s work, but usually there are 15 active members working on the job at the same time.

How do you organize, where does the idea come from to hack the iPhone, and why did you set it up?
We are high tech enthusiasts and hackers… hackers in a good way. We like to crack things and see how they work. Most of us have worked with UNIX and OS X for a long time. Few of us knew the others from there, and other professionals have joined later, those whose work we appreciate a lot.

Do you get any threats or ”feedback” from Apple? Did you have any contact with the company?
Apple never made contact with us. We make sure we never break the law when we release a new software. PwnageTool and QuickPwn are very complicated, because these softwares remove the necessary parts from Apple’s firmware. We NEVER release pirated softwares.

How much time do you spend on the crack, and other iPhone-related works?
We are working on it 24 hours a day. While one of us are working on it, others are sleeping, and we continually switch. IRC is running in the background all the time, even when we are working onour private jobs, so we have worked on the iPhone thousands of hours. I have to mention, that we spend a lot of money on special hardware and reverse engineering softwares, also from our own money.

Do you get any donation, do you make any profit out of the huge work you made anyway?
We finance everything with our own money. Most of the team has a good job that pays good money in the IT field. The Dev Team is our hobby and although it is very time consuming, yet it still is a hobby. We didn’t take money from anyone!

How many people cracked their iPhones with your program? Do you have any idea how much iPhone users freed their phones?
We have more than hundred thousand recurrent PwnageTool and QuickPwn users. It is hard to estimate how many exactly, but a lot.

Why it is so hard to unlock the iPhone 3G? What is the main difference between 2G and 3G that has prevented the unlock so far?
Apple and Infineon made a very serious work and made almost impossible to unlock the iPhone 3G. They learned from what we did with 2G and made the 3G much more safer.

How far are you from suceeding with the unlock?
This is secret of course.

How deep was the 2.2 baseband update? If you want to make a sim-unlock on this as well, do you have to start the job from scratch? So, if someone accidently updated the baseband, does he have to give up, or does he still have a chance to unlock his phone?
At the moment the exploits we used to run our codes on 2.1 and older basebands has been removed from 2.2. 2.2 closed the security breach we used to control the baseband as we wanted and at the moment 2.2 baseband is bad.

What do you mean ”bad”?
In 2.2 baseband there is no such an exploit we can use, so it is bad :-).

What do you think about the sofware and hardware of the iPhone 3G compared to other smartphones?
The iPhone OS is very advanced technology. It is years ahead of everything you can buy on the market at the moment. And yes, I am an Apple fan, but nobody can deny that iPhone is almost futuristic. T-Mobile’s G1 is the second best device after iPhone, but it is still behind 18 months at least I think.

Why do these two devices have advantage over others?
The iPhone OS is based on UNIX/Mach operating system, and both UNIX and Mach is a result of many years of developement. G1 is using Linux, which has a similar story. Fortunately nowadays mobile processors are powerful enough to use UNIX.

What kind of deficiency does the iPhone OS have, and in which direction would you develop it, if it depended on you?
It would need to be more open.

Why and for who do you do your work?
First of all for myself, for us, and for the people who prefer an unlocked phone. We bought a flat in Budapest with my wife, and the agent does not come to our home every week to check if we had painted the walls red, does he? The situation is similar with the IPhone and other devices we buy as well.

What do you do on week days?
We work and play. We have a very special Hungarian Vizsla (deerhound), he keeps us busy all the time.

Why did you choose a pineapple as your logo?
Apple/Pinapple, Pwn/Own, PwnApple (Pwning Apple)

The link to the Hungarian version of it:Appleblog

The english version was got from here: AllTechRelated

The Harry Fox Agency has entered into two foreign reciprocal agreements-one with the Russia Authors Society (RAO) and one with southern Africa Music Rights Organisation (SAMRO)-for the licensing and collection of music copyright royalties in each others' territories.

The Harry Fox Agency has entered into two foreign reciprocal agreements-one with the Russia Authors Society (RAO) and one with southern Africa Music Rights Organisation (SAMRO)-for the licensing and collection of music copyright royalties in each others' territories.

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/40650?ns=guardianpageName=Environment%3A+UK%27s+seasonal+starling+flocks+may+disappearch=Environmentc3=guardian.co.ukc4=Wildlife+%28Environment%29%2CConservation+%28Environment%29%2CEndangered+species+%28Environment%29%2CEnvironment%2CUK+newsc5=Environment+Conservation%2CNot+commercially+useful%2CClimate+Change%2CEthical+Livingc6=Juliette+Jowitc7=2008_12_04c8=1128997c9=articlec10=GUc11=Environmentc12=Wildlifec13=c14=h2=GU%2FEnvironment%2FWildlife" width="1" height="1" //divpThe sight of tens of thousands of a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jun/08/birds.starling"starlings/a pirouetting and wheeling together in an ever-changing cloud of rushing wings is one of the UK's great wildlife spectacles./ppBut as this year's annual season of the murmuration reaches its peak, bird experts are warning that the extraordinary scenes mask a serious decline in the species which is now listed as one of the most at-risk birds in Britain./ppThis year, as in recent years, the audience of regular birdwatchers on Brighton Pier has estimated there are about 40,000 birds doing their aerial ballet just before dusk./ppThirty years ago though it is thought the numbers were near a quarter of a million. In some flocks in other countries, the total is thought to be up to 2m./pp"People think 'wow, that's amazing, look at all those birds'," said Gemma Rogers of the RSPB. "Without putting a dampener on it, we wanted people to know: it is amazing but it's not as great as it should be and something needs to be done about it."/ppThe starling spectacle starts ever year in November, when local starling populations are swelled by a vast influx of birds from the extreme cold in northern Europe and Russia, and lasts until around March, always for about an hour before dusk./ppOne of Britain's most popular naturalists, Bill Oddie, admits exactly a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/nov/07/conservation"how and why they make the shapes/a they do is something of a "mystery", but it is thought the birds are finding safety from predators and warmth by forming vast flocks, and perhaps communicating about the best feeding sites./ppWhy they are disappearing is also unknown, though blame is mostly being cast over loss of insects for the starlings to eat because of the increase in chemical use on farms since the 1970s and new grassland management techniques, which might be creating thickets too dense for the birds to penetrate. Further research is the first part of an RSPB project to try and stop the species' decline in the UK./ppStarlings are one of 40 bird species out of 247 regularly seen in the UK which are on the "red list" of birds of conservation concern in the UK drawn up by 14 major bird organisations./ppstrongWhere to watch starlings flock in the UK /strong/ppLeighton Moss, Lancashire/ppFen Drayton Lakes, Cambridgeshire/ppMinsmere, Suffolk/ppNewport Wetlands, Newport/ppSomerset Levels/ppBrighton Pier/ppNorwich/ppNorthampton/ppSource: a href="http://www.rspb.org"RSPB/a/pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/wildlife"Wildlife/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/conservation/"Conservation/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/endangeredspecies"Endangered species/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/D0bEShoEzIrhWQglWHZBSx6M0ZI/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/D0bEShoEzIrhWQglWHZBSx6M0ZI/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

snydeq writes "Researchers have discovered a new type of malware that collects passwords for banking sites but targets only Firefox. The malware, dubbed 'Trojan.PWS.ChromeInject.A,' sits in Firefox's add-ons folder, registering itself as 'Greasemonkey,' the well-known collection of scripts that add functionality to Web pages rendered by Firefox. The malware uses JavaScript to identify more than 100 financial and money transfer Web sites, including PayPal, collecting logins and passwords, which it forwards to a server in Russia. Trojan infection can occur via drive-by download or download duping."pa href="http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/04/1536231amp;from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=08/12/04/1536231"/a/ppa href="http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/04/1536231amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/sgGeS98x4HsbC4O3kcl1okKpMo8/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/sgGeS98x4HsbC4O3kcl1okKpMo8/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/aAsHRhwFw6Q" height="1" width="1"/

div style="float:right;"img border=0 title="Huawei u121" alt="Huawei u121" src="http://www.uberphones.com/photos/2008/12/huawei-u121.jpg" hspace="5" vspace="5" //div pHuawei Technologies has released the third-generation Huawei U121 handset which looks like it’s aimed at the consumer who is looking for an entry-level handset, but doesn’t compromise on build-quality, especially since the phone is made from materials that include stainless steel. So far it looks like the phone is only available in Russia, but if you’re looking for a phone in Russia, then you’ll want to check out the features of the Huawei U121, which include:/p ul li1.3 megapixel camera/li liSupport for video calls/li liIntegrated FM radio/li limicroSD memory card slot/li li3.5mm headphone jack/li liAudio and video playback/li liminiUSB port/li li3G connectivity/li /ul pPermalink: a href="http://www.uberphones.com/2008/12/others/huawei_u121/"Huawei u121/a from a href="http://www.uberphones.com"Uberphones/a | a href="http://www.uberbargain.com/"Good deals/a | Hot: a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2008/11/blackberry_storm_review.html"BlackBerry Storm/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/rA5UxWkhl2mqxVrP-HDN9b4CRWw/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/rA5UxWkhl2mqxVrP-HDN9b4CRWw/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

I know a lot of you use Firefox so I wanted to pass this news item on to you guys. The malware sits in your add-ons folder and runs when Firefox is started and registers itself in the browser's system files as Greasemonkey.

The malware uses JavaScript to identify more than 100 financial and money transfer Web sites, including Barclays, Wachovia, Bank of America, and PayPal along with two dozen or so Italian and Spanish banks. When it recognizes a Web site, it will collect logins and passwords, forwarding that information to a server in Russia.

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div class="rxbodyfield"p page="1" class="ArticleBody"Researchers at BitDefender have discovered a new type of malicious software that collects passwords for banking sites but targets only Firefox users./pp align="right"a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/idg.us.info.rss/news;pos=imu;tile=6;sz=336x280;skey=patch_management;pkey=security;ord=123456789?" target="_blank" /img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/idg.us.info.rss/news;pos=imu;tile=6;sz=336x280;skey=patch_management;pkey=security;ord=123456789?" width="336" height="280" border="0" alt="" align="right"//a/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"The malware, which BitDefender dubbed a target="_blank" href="http://www.bitdefender.co.uk/NW900-uk--BitDefender-detects-novel-approach-to-stealing-web-passwords.html"quot;Trojan.PWS.ChromeInject.Aquot;/a sits in Firefox#39;s add-ons folder, said Viorel Canja, the head of BitDefender#39;s lab. The malware runs when Firefox is started./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"b[ Learn how to secure your systems with Roger Grimes#39; a href="http://weblog.infoworld.com/securityadviser/?source=fssr"Security Adviser blog/a and a href="http://www.infoworld.com/newsletter/subscribe.html?source=fssr"newsletter/a, both from InfoWorld. ]/b/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"The malware uses JavaScript to identify more than 100 financial and money transfer Web sites, including Barclays, Wachovia, Bank of America, and PayPal along with two dozen or so Italian and Spanish banks. When it recognizes a Web site, it will collect logins and passwords, forwarding that information to a server in Russia./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Firefox has been continually gaining market share against main competitor Internet Explorer since its debut four years ago, which may be one reason why malware authors are looking for new avenues to infect computers, Canja said./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Users could be infected with the Trojan either from a drive-by download, which can infect a PC by exploiting a vulnerability in a browser, or by being duped into downloading it, Canja said./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"When it runs on a PC, it registers itself in Firefox#39;s system files as quot;Greasemonkey,quot; a well-known collection of scripts that add extra functionality to Web pages rendered by Firefox./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"BitDefender has updated its products to detect it, and other vendors will likely follow suit quickly, Canja said. Users could avoid it by only downloading signed, verified software, but that#39;s a measure that restricts the usability of a PC, he said./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"The malware is not present in Mozilla#39;s repository of add-ons, Canja said. Mozilla had taken steps to ensure that its official site hosting add-ons -- also called extensions -- are free from malware./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"In May, Mozilla acknowledged that the Vietnamese language pack for Firefox contained a bit of unwanted code. Although widely reported as a virus, the language actually contained a line of HTML code that would cause users to view unwanted advertisements./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Mozilla now scans new add-ons for malware. However, those scans will only detect known threats, and there was no signature in the security software Mozilla was using at the time that could detect the code./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Mozilla said the code probably ended up in the language pack after the PC of its developer became infected. More than 16,000 people downloaded the language pack, but only about 1,000 people regularly use it./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"After the incident, Mozilla said it would scan add-ons in its repository when antivirus signatures were updated./p/divbr style=clear: both;/ a href=http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=19f94bb222c257b7e7bd6e7ac0e7a35dp=1img alt= style=border: 0; border=0 src=http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=19f94bb222c257b7e7bd6e7ac0e7a35dp=1//a img src=http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=19f94bb222c257b7e7bd6e7ac0e7a35d style=display: none; border=0 height=1 width=1 alt=/

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This application shows stock market status all over the world. [list of countries] Korea, Republic of - KOSPI United States of America United Kindom - FTSE100 France - CAC40 Germany - DAX30 South Africa - JSE Canada - TSX India - BSE SENSEX 30 China - SHANGHAI SE Japan - NIKKEI Austrailia - ALL ORDINARIES INDX Russia - RTS Brazil - BOVESPA STOCK IDX



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Get it on iTunes: World Stock Viewer

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin held his annual live television call-in program Thursday -- an event that shows he still runs Russia even though he stepped down as president earlier this year, an analyst said.

div style="FLOAT: right"img title="Huawei U121 Announced" alt="Huawei U121 Announced" hspace="5" src="http://www.ubergizmo.com/photos/2008/12/huawei-u121.jpg" vspace="5" border="0" //div pHuawei Technologies has just released its third generation Huawei U121 handset that will cater to those looking for an entry-level handset without compromising on style. Made from high-quality materials including stainless steel, you will find the Huawei U121 pack the following :- p ul li1.3 megapixel camera/li liSupport for video calls/li liIntegrated FM radio/li limicroSD memory card slot/li li3.5mm headphone jack/li liAudio and video playback/li liminiUSB port/li li3G connectivity/li/ul p/pNo idea on whether this will make it Stateside or not as it looks as though it is a Russia-only candybar phone at this point in time. p/p pPermalink: a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2008/12/huawei_u121_announced.html"Huawei U121 Announced/a from Ubergizmo (a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com"US/a, a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com/fr"FR/a) | a href="http://www.uberbargain.com/"Good deals/a | Hot: a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2008/11/blackberry_storm_review.html"Storm Review/a/p pmap name="google_ad_map_081203205407" area shape="rect" href="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/imgclick/081203205407?pos=0" coords="1,2,367,28"/ area shape="rect" href="http://services.google.com/feedback/abg" coords="384,10,453,23"//map img usemap="#google_ad_map_081203205407" border="0" src="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/ads?format=468x30_aff_imgamp;client=ca-pub-7335032025195922amp;channel=9684588219amp;output=pngamp;cuid=081203205407amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ubergizmo.com%2F15%2Farchives%2F2008%2F12%2Fhuawei_u121_announced.html"//p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/x94YMNv6luouds7qMV0Jh3Yri_4/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/x94YMNv6luouds7qMV0Jh3Yri_4/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=WkRd2tLH"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=AnO5jKdq"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?i=AnO5jKdq" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=KPR0E1D3"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=5jyut1tQ"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?i=5jyut1tQ" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=4Ang7MEZ"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?i=4Ang7MEZ" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ubergizmo/~4/BLPycVnvxjQ" height="1" width="1"/

Russia said Wednesday it is sending a warship through the Panama Canal for the first time since World War II, a short journey loaded with symbolic weight: the destroyer will dock at a former U.S. naval base.

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/37781?ns=guardianpageName=World+news%3A+Terrorists+could+mount+nuclear+or+biological+attack+within+5+years%2C+warns+Congress+inquirych=World+newsc3=The+Guardianc4=Terrorism+-+international%2CAl-Qaida+%28News%29%2CUS+news%2CPakistan+%28News%29%2CNuclear+issues+%28non-military%29%2CUS+Congress%2CWorld+newsc5=Not+commercially+useful%2CUS+Electionsc6=Ewen+MacAskillc7=2008_12_04c8=1128370c9=articlec10=GUc11=World+newsc12=Global+terrorismc13=c14=h2=GU%2FWorld+news%2FGlobal+terrorism" width="1" height="1" //divpAn investigation by the US Congress into weapons of mass destruction published yesterday made a chilling prediction of terrorists mounting an attack using biological or nuclear weapons within the next five years./ppThe six-month inquiry mentioned Pakistan as one of the likeliest sources of such an attack. The target could be the US or some other part of the world./ppThe report, by the bipartisan Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction, said "unless the world community acts decisively and with great urgency, it is more likely than not that a weapon of mass destruction will be used in a terrorist attack somewhere in the world by the end of 2013". /pp"Terrorists are more likely to be able to obtain and use a biological weapon than a nuclear weapon," it said. /ppGeorge Bush said the report highlighted the greatest threat facing the US and was "dangerously real". He said that after the 9/11 attacks he had put in place policies tackling the threat and he was leaving a good foundation for his successor./ppBarack Obama's incoming administration, which is to prioritise tackling the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, was briefed on Capitol Hill yesterday about the findings in the 132-page report./ppThe commission, led by former Democratic senators Bob Graham and Jim Talent, was given six months to complete the report. It followed on from the work of the commission that investigated the 9/11 attacks./ppGraham told reporters that a biological or nuclear attack within the next five years was not inevitable and the commission's reports included a series of recommendations which, if implemented, could diminish the threat. The recommendations included the creation of a White House post focusing on proliferation and more emphasis on diplomatic efforts. /ppThe team's remit ranged from lack of security at biological labs in the US to the safety of nuclear stockpiles in Russia. It conducted 250 interviews with scientists, analysts, intelligence agencies and the military./ppThe report concluded that the risk from biological or nuclear weapons was higher than sceptical foreign policy and defence analysts have so far suggested. Those analysts had pointed to the complexity of transporting such weapons and the limitations of a nuclear "dirty" bomb, whose radius of damage is minimal compared with missile-delivered warheads./ppThe report disagreed, saying: "No mission could be timelier. The simple reality is that the risks that confront us today are evolving faster than our multi-layered responses./pp"Many thousands of dedicated people across all agencies of our government are working hard to protect this country, and their efforts have had a positive impact. But the terrorists have been active, too - and in our judgment America's margin of safety is shrinking, not growing." /ppIt added that much dangerous biological and nuclear material around the globe was "poorly secured - and thus vulnerable to theft by those who would put these materials to harmful use, or would sell them on the black market to potential terrorists". /ppAs well as the threat from stateless militant groups, the commission expressed concern about the danger posed by proliferation of nuclear weapons in countries such as Iran, saying the Obama administration must stop Tehran acquiring a nuclear weapons capability./ppIt pointed to Pakistan, both at state level and among stateless groups, as one of the areas of most concern. "Were one to map terrorism and weapons of mass destruction today, all roads would intersect in Pakistan," the report said./ppTalent told journalists: "It is the epicentre of a lot of these dangers." He said the report had been drawn up before the Mumbai attacks. The commission recommended that Pakistan be top priority for the Obama administration in terms of terrorism and proliferation. /ppProposals include eliminating terrorist safe havens through military, economic, and diplomatic means, securing nuclear and biological materials in Pakistan, countering and defeating extremist ideology, and constraining a nascent nuclear arms race in Asia. /ppOther recommendations include strengthening the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and other international safeguards, creating a US national security force appropriate to the 21st century and developing a more coherent strategy for countering ideologies that lead to terrorism./ppAt home, the commission was disturbed by the apparent lack of security at laboratories dealing with dangerous biological materials./ppGovernment investigators sent to check on the vulnerability of such research sites were able gain access to the outside of these buildings and then observe work inside. /ppIt was fortunate that they were from the government and not al-Qaida as these were precisely the lethal trove that the terrorists have been seeking for years, the report said. /ppThe investigators watched a pedestrian simply stroll into one of the buildings through an unguarded loading bay./ppThe commission recommended tighter oversight of the 400 research facilities and 15,000 staff engaged in such work./ppAnother recommendation was for the establishment of an anthrax preparedness strategy./ph2Findings/h2pstrongThe congressional inquiry:/strong/pp· Predicts there is likely to be an attack on American soil or elsewhere in the world in the next five years by a terrorist group using biological or nuclear weapons/pp· Concludes the margin of safety for the US, in spite of the growth of counter-terrorist efforts, is shrinking, not growing/pp· Singles out Pakistan as one of the main sources of danger, saying all roads involving terrorism and weapons of mass destruction intersect the country/pp· Expresses concern at the lack of security at laboratories in America handling some of the most deadly biological material in the world and called for increased oversight of the 400 research facilities in the US engaged in such work/pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/terrorism"Global terrorism/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/alqaida"Al-Qaida/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/usa"United States/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/pakistan"Pakistan/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/nuclear"Nuclear issues/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/congress"US Congress/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/_hgaMCvUxXykVuKhrufRgvrhcY4/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/_hgaMCvUxXykVuKhrufRgvrhcY4/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

Investor confidence in Russia took another blow yesterday after Sibir Energy, once the biggest company on AIM, disclosed that it would buy property worth $340 million ($£229 million) to bail out its largest shareholders.

Le VO 70 Team Russia, en coupant la ligne d’arrivée cet après-midi à 14h 23 (heure Paris), a refermé le chapitre de cette deuxième étape de la Volvo Ocean Race. Ce parcours de 4 450 milles entre la ville du Cap en Afrique du Sud et celle de Cochin, en Inde avait été remporté par l’équipage battant pavillon suédois, Ericsson 4, à 23h 52 (heure Paris) samedi dernier, soit il y a plus de deux jours et demi.