US declares Haqqani network commander a terrorist (AP)

WASHINGTON – The Obama administration designated a key insurgent commander in southeastern Afghanistan as a terrorist Tuesday, freezing any assets he has in the United States and barring Americans from doing business with him.

The State Department said Mullah Sangeen Zadran is the shadow governor of Paktika province in southeastern Afghanistan and a commander in the Haqqani network.

A statement said Sangeen leads fighters in attacks and has helped hundreds of foreign fighters enter Afghanistan. It also linked him to bombings and kidnappings of Afghans and foreigners in the border region between Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Sangeen was also designated a terrorist by the U.N., meaning he should be subject to a global travel ban, asset freeze and arms embargo. The Haqqani network has ties to both al-Qaida and the Taliban and has emerged as one of the biggest threats to stability in Afghanistan.

“These actions will help stem the flow of financial and other assistance to this dangerous individual,” the State Department said.

Sangeen appears to be the same individual whom U.S.-led forces claimed to have killed in an operation in 2007. The coalition said at the time that Sangeen was second-in-command to Siraj Haqqani and that he was responsible for roadside bombings and other

Read More from the Article Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110816/ap_on_re_us/us_us_terrorism

View the original article here

Sony Holiday Showcase Includes 3DTVs, Laptops, Cameras

Sony showed off the company's latest and greatest products of 2010 at their Manhattan headquarters on Wednesday night, dubbing the event the "Product Innovation Showcase."

Though not everything at the show was new, it was our first time seeing many of the products in person (specifically the Sony NEX-VG10 Interchangeable Lens Camcorder and the Sony Network Media Player SMP-N100.

Kaspersky Lab patents advanced technology for combating malware epidemics

Kaspersky Lab has patented a groundbreaking piece of technology in the USA that allows the potential scale of malware epidemics to be accurately predicted in order to prevent them from spreading.

Today's malware has the capacity to spread like wildfire, with millions of computers infected in an instant as an epidemic sweeps across the Internet. This can take down huge swathes of infrastructure, bringing information highways to a standstill and leaving systems vulnerable to data leakage which in turn opens the door to large scale fraud. Detecting malware on every computer that is infected during an epidemic has little or no effect. What is needed is a reliable method for estimating the potential scale and direction of an epidemic, an early warning system, and that is exactly what the new technology developed by Kaspersky Lab's Yury Mashevsky, Yury Namestnikov, Nikolay Denishchenko and Pavel Zelensky, is capable of doing. The technology was granted Patent No. 7743419 by the US Patent and Trademark Office on 22 June, 2010.