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Attackers used GhostNet to steal documents from targets including international institutions and foreign ministries of other countries, according to the report. The attackers gained full access to affected computers, including control of attached microphones and Web cams that could have been used to monitor nearby activity.

The report drew attention to cybercrime in China Wholesale at a time when observers say it is growing. GhostNet’s highly targeted attacks against foreign government networks are unique, but its scale is tiny and its malware code outdated compared to other recent attacks, analysts say.

“The incident of attacks on the U.S. electrical grid from China and Russia simply does not exist,” Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu told reporters, according to a transcript of the briefing.

“We hope the concerned media will cautiously handle groundless statements and especially critiques against China.”

A simple online search can reveal the source code for GhostNet’s unsophisticated malicious software, said Zhao Wei, CEO of Knownsec, a Beijing security firm. Much more advanced — and more common in China — are mass attacks with “zero days,” or previously unknown software bugs, Zhao said.

Sophisticated attacks can hit millions of computers. Researchers at Zhao’s firm found 4 million computers infected in a single day during one recent attack.

China had 298 million Internet users at the end of last year, the most in any country, according to the country’s domain registry center.

Bank accounts and online game passwords are popular targets for attackers in China. Items like armor and weapons stolen from game accounts are often sold back to other players for real-world cash.

The rare: striped rabbits that blend into their surroundings. The terrifying: giant blood-sucking bats. The hair-raising: of 88 new species, one spider the size of a dinner plate; another that ambushes prey, leaping four meters into the air. The most bizarre: the cyanide covered millipede, a deadly meal for any predator. More than 1,000 incredible secrets of nature have been slowly given up by a lost world known as the Greater Mekong, 232,000 square miles of rain forest stretching across China, Cambodia, Laos, Burma, Thailand and Vietnam.

The store will limit customers to four 20-lb. bags of jasmine, basmati and long-grain white rice, the company said in a statement. Its restriction mainly will affect businesses that buy rice in bulk, but the company said “a typical Sam’s Club Business Member does not buy more than 80 pounds of rice in one visit.”

“We currently have plenty of rice for Sam’s Club members,” the statement said. “This temporary restriction does not apply to retail-sized rice for sale in Sam’s or elsewhere at Wal-Mart stores.”

ROGERS: Wars, internal problems and the remoteness of the region kept scientists away until 1997. Over the last decade, unknown animals and plants have been discovered at up to two a week. But no sooner are they found, their existence is at risk.

DR. MARK WRIGHT, WORLD WILDLIFE FUND: What we do know is the habitat in which they live is under threat, because that part of the world is seeing increasing economic development. And we would, of course, encourage that. But what we would be looking for is to have some sort of marriage, some compromise between economic development and environmental protection. Because the environment is the basis for the economic growth. One can’t live without the other.

ROGERS: Already, there is evidence humans are creeping in on the world’s newly found species. Among the 15 mammals recorded, the rock rat. A researcher spotted the corpse of one for sale in a food market in Laos. The good news is that it was widely believed the rock rat had been wiped out 11 million years ago. And a new snake, the Siamese Peninsula pit viper, was discovered slithering through a Thai restaurant. Chris Rogers, ITV News.

They’re ordering at lower prices, they’re keeping orders small and they’re planning to buy more only if consumer demand picks up, said David Wolfe, creative director of The Doneger Group, which consults with stores on apparel buying.

For shoppers, this hesitance will translate into fewer choices and, if demand increases at all, fewer bargains. For factories abroad, it’s feeding desperation at the time of year when manufacturers usually start ramping up to fill summer and Christmas orders.

But retailers are more worried they’ll be stuck with unsold merchandise they’ll have to discount than that their shelves will go bare.

“We would rather chase than not and, if we cannot get it, we would rather not get it than have too much inventory,” J. Crew Group Chairman and CEO Millard Drexler told investors during a recent conference call. “Because none of us really have figured out where this thing is going, where is the bottom, where is it settling in at.”

Saks Inc. Chairman and CEO Steve Sadove recently reminded investors that full-price selling is “largely a result of supply and demand.”

Isserlis has been instrumental in expanding house counsel from 2000 cases with supervision of 10 attorneys and 20 support staff to more than 20,000 cases and supervision of 40 attorneys and 50 support staff.

Isserlis is not only a champion of women in the law, a specialist in a high volume practice and in personal injury defense work, her expertise in insurance coverage was instrumental in changing the laws regarding rental car agencies and their refusal to defend and indemnify the renters of vehicles involved in accidents.

Her efforts led to a Court of Appeals decision which insures that rental car agencies provide primary coverage and a defense to the renters of their vehicles.

Isserlis attended Syracuse University where she received a bachelor of science degree, summa cum laude, and was awarded her juris doctor degree from Hofstra University School of Law. She oversees the litigation and management of approximately 30,000 lawsuits venued in almost every county in the State of New York and is the proud mother of 18-year-old twins attending Cornell and Syracuse Universities.

The sound is excellent both ways. Music and voice comes in clean and precise. Zirene Power Bass gives the music a rich, full sound that isn’t murky like enhancement features found on some audio systems. What’s more, the Halo’s two built-in microphones deliver clear speech to the person on the other end a call.

Compatible with Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch, Blackberry’s smartphones and many other mobile phones, digital music players, computers and other devices, the HALO headset is very easy to set up. In fact, it can be synced to two devices as once with little problem.

Briana Carter, 31, recently spied a $40 pink laptop cooling pad at a Kohl’s department store. She scanned its bar code with her iPhone and using an application called ShopSavvy found the same thing for $25 at online retailer Amazon.com.

While still inside Kohl’s, Carter, of Tipton, Ind., bought the pad from Amazon through her phone.

Shoppers definitely have discounts on the brain. Unique visits to the top 10 coupon and rewards sites rose 6 percent from October to November to 70.4 million, Nielsen Co. research said.

Merchants, already struggling with weak sales and a mediocre holiday season in this tough economy, are forced to play along, said David Bassuk, a managing director in the retail practice at consultancy AlixPartners.

Macy’s Inc., The Gap Inc., and many others are paying a growing list of sites to list deals online.

A few years ago, the Web site www.savings.com listed coupons for about 1,000 retailers; that’s up to 4,000 now.

“The retailers are very, very hungry right now, so the consumer is in the driver seat,” Bassuk said.

Sales to people who click through the savings.com site are expected to double to $200 million this year from last.

Meeting in Houston, the group declined to endorse state-based medical marijuana programs but voted in favor of reviewing the classification of marijuana as a Schedule I drug, the AMA said on its Web site Tuesday. Schedule I is the only classification of controlled substances that may not be prescribed by a physician.

The AMA body also adopted a resolution urging the U.S. Congress to repeal the “don’t ask, don’t tell” law that forbids gays in the military from disclosing their sexual orientation. The resolution finds the policy threatens to compromise medical care of gay patients in the military.

For the July-September period last year, the company made a profit of $61.3 million, the story says. The decrease came largely from the company’s write down of value lost in its massive CityCenter project on the Las Vegas Strip. MGM Mirage is the world’s second largest casino operator.

When MGM Mirage’s  67-acre CityCentre complex starts opening next month, CEO Jim Mullen still believes it will benefit the company, he said in a statement.

“We expect CityCenter to grow our business significantly and we are extremely excited to open this tremendous asset,” Murren said.

According to the AP story, MGM Mirage’s revenue fell 15% for the quarter to $1.53 billion. That’s down from $1.79 billion. It topped Wall Street’s forecast of $1.47 billion, the story says.

Cell phones will become life management devices and vehicles to control absolutely everything that has a chip in it. And everything one day will pretty much have a chip in it at some point. Cell phone functionality will include certain aspects that are enabled by implants. It’s already possible with pets and such.

Also the constant “convergence” factor. Cell phones have already become cameras and music players and web browsers. They will evolve to fully featured entertainment and computing devices and be able to facilitate all financial and legal transactions. People will design their own phones, picking the size, weight, battery life, materials, screen: Built to order. Bluetooth devices will be made by Oakley, others and be invisible to the naked eye, as all voice is transmitted through other accessories, like glasses, earrings, baseball caps.

I can access all of my communications data from the cloud–from any phone or device that is convenient. The tight coupling of my information to specific piece of hardware will be eliminated, just like email has nothing to do with my PC anymore. This is not just the future for those of us in developed markets with access to corporate IT support and MobileMe. This is the future for the masses. There is a desperate need for broad-based access in developing markets that doesn’t require the ownership of a dedicated personal device. Services will allow someone to access their contacts, messaging and credit from any device, whether the phone belongs to their uncle or is a community phone. People will have multiple accounts. Employers will enable accounts as will local health workers so that people can access sensitive information related to HIV or TB without having to compromise the confidentiality of this information on a shared device.