Pakistani schoolgirl shot by Taliban moved to army HQ hospital

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A Pakistani schoolgirl fighting for her life after being shot by the Taliban for campaigning for education rights was transferred on Thursday from a hospital in a province that is a militant haven to a specialist hospital in the army garrison town of Rawalpindi.

Malala Yousufzai, 14, was unconscious in critical condition after gunmen shot her in the head and neck as she left school on Tuesday, but doctors said she had moved her arms and legs slightly the night before.

Pakistani surgeons removed a bullet on Wednesday from Yousufzai who was shot by the Taliban for speaking out against the militants and promoting education for girls.

Her courage made her a national hero. The shooting has drawn condemnation from world leaders and many Pakistanis.

Yousufzai began standing up to the Pakistani Taliban when she was just 11, when the government had effectively ceded control of the Swat Valley where she lives to the militants.

Her father, Ziauddin Yousufzai, who runs a girls' school, said his daughter had defied threats for years, believing the good work she was doing for her community was her best protection.

A Reuters correspondent watched as she was moved from an army hospital in the regional capital of Peshawar to the Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology in Rawalpindi to help her treatment.

"Pray for her," her distraught uncle, Faiz Mohammad, said before the ambulance left the hospital.

A husband-and-wife team of two British doctors who were attending a seminar in Pakistan at the time of the attack on Thursday joined local surgeons in treating Yousufzai.

She was shot with two other girls on Tuesday as she left school in Swat, northwest of Islamabad. One of the girls is out of danger and the other remains in critical condition.

A Taliban spokesman said Yousufzai was targeted for trying to spread Western culture and that they would try to kill her again if she survived.

'BARBARIC AND COWARDLY'

Authorities had identified her attackers, said regional governor Masood Kausar. The local government has posted a 10 million rupee ($104,657) reward for their capture.

"The security agencies are closely working with each other and they have a lot of information about the perpetrators. We hope our security agencies will soon capture them and bring to justice," he said.

The attack outraged many in Pakistan, with small, impromptu rallies held in Yousufzai's support in many cities. Schools had also closed across Swat in protest over the shooting and a small demonstration was held in her hometown of Mingora.

Pakistan's president, prime minister, and heads of various opposition parties joined human rights group Amnesty International and the United Nations in condemning the attack.

White House press secretary Jay Carney called the shooting an "outrageous attack" and a reminder of the need to promote girls' rights worldwide.

"Malala's courage and determination as a champion for girls' education and opportunity stands in stark contrast to the cowards who seek to silence her," he said in a statement marking the First International Day of the Girl.

"Like so many Pakistanis and people of goodwill around the world, the American people are shocked by this deplorable shooting of a girl who was targeted because she dared to attend school," he said.

Yousufzai had spent the last three years campaigning for girls' education after the Taliban shut down girls' schools. She received Pakistan's highest civilian award but also a number of death threats.

In 2009, the army pushed the Taliban out of her hometown, but the attack showed the militia's ability to strike even inside heavily patrolled towns.

(Additional reporting by Matt Spetalnick in Washington; Writing by Katharine Houreld; Editing by Jeremy Laurence and Paul Simao)

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Verizon privacy settings: Check 'em now

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Suzanne Choney , NBC News

Wireless carriers get their monthly take from you, but they're cashing in on you in other ways, too ? unless you tell them otherwise: Carriers sell?information about your mobile Web searches and other data?to marketing companies.?

The good news is, you can easily?opt out of providing such info. The bad news is, it's mostly up to you to do so ??no action on your part generally means they're sharing your info. To fix this,?you go online to your account, and change your privacy settings. If you haven't looked at them in awhile???or ever???today's a good day to start.

Bryan Clark on?App.net?was upset when he posted a day ago?that?"new Verizon customers like us have 30 days to opt-out from them selling your Web history and device location to marketers."

Verizon Wireless told NBC News Wednesday?that's not completely accurate.?

"Our customers can change their privacy preferences at any time," said a company spokeswoman. "The 30-day window is essentially the initial time frame so customers can read and look at their options, but again, they can change them any time through MyVerizon."

The carrier also wants customers to know that "there are several different programs" it uses for information sharing, if allowed by the subscriber, including a recent program called Precision Market Insights, announced by Verizon Oct. 1.

"Information for Precision is anonymous and aggregated, and not personally identifiable," the Verizon spokeswoman said. "Customers can opt out at any time."

A quick check of my own privacy settings with Verizon for a smartphone and a mobile hot spot (below)?showed I was letting them collect information, including location-based services info, because I had not chosen to opt out by selecting "Don't Share My CPNI" (Customer Proprietary Network Information):

"CPNI is not new," said the Verizon Wireless spokeswoman. "There are FCC rules about it (and we comply)."

Indeed, the statement by Verizon under CPNI says:

As a provider of certain telecommunications services, Verizon Wireless collects certain information that is made available to us solely by virtue of our relationship with you, such as quantity, technical configuration, type, destination, location and amount of use of the telecommunications services you purchase. This information and related billing information is known as Customer Proprietary Network Information (CPNI). The Federal Communications Commission and other regulators require the Verizon Companies to protect your CPNI.

Still, customers need to take the trouble to?find their way to opt out of sharing information. In the case of Verizon Wireless, go to?Verizon Wireless online and sign into your account. Scroll down to "I want to?..." and beneath those words you'll see options for "bill" "plan" "device" "profile." Under "profile," choose "Manage privacy settings." That's where you'll find the above check boxes to change. (Be sure to hit "Save changes" when you're done.)

"Sadly, it's just?another case of companies failing to respect the preferences of users in?an effort to undermine their privacy and monetize their data," Parker Higgins of the Electronic Frontier Foundation told NBC News. "While it's?a minor reassurance that this data appears to be anonymized and?aggregated, these companies still ought to get a meaningful opt-in from?their users."

Verizon Wireless is not alone in data collection, of course. NBC News contacted the other major carriers to find out how they handle it.

A?Sprint spokeswoman told NBC News that "much like programs of other carriers," its "research and analytics program combines anonymous Mobile Usage Information and Consumer Information to prepare business and marketing reports that we may share with others.

"We may produce or allow others to produce limited business and marketing reports with this data. Business and marketing reports contain information about groups or categories of Sprint customers.??These reports do not identify customers personally."

Customers, she said, can opt out "at any time" by signing into their Sprint account online and going to "My Choices," or by calling 855-596-2397 from their mobile devices.?

Updated?at 5:50 p.m. Wednesday: AT&T and T-Mobile, in statements to NBC News, said they?have policies similar to Verizon Wireless and Sprint: So again,?you must choose to opt out of data collection.

"Customer privacy is of the utmost importance to AT&T," said spokesman Mark A. Siegel. "That is why we provide our customers a variety of privacy options through our website, giving them the ability to exercise those options any time."

A T-Mobile spokesman referred us?to the company's website about customer privacy information, which says, in part, "We may obtain your consent in several ways, such as in writing; online, through 'click-through' agreements; orally, including through interactive voice response; or when your consent is part of this policy or the terms and conditions pursuant to which we provide you service. Your consent is sometimes implicit."

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Yankees get the jump on Orioles with 7-2 win

BALTIMORE (AP) ? The New York Yankees earned the AL East title by pulling away from the Baltimore Orioles in the final week of the regular season.

That scenario repeated itself in the first game of their AL playoff series, and now the Orioles are again forced to play catch up against their division rivals.

Russell Martin led off the ninth inning with a tiebreaking home run off Jim Johnson, CC Sabathia turned in a sparkling pitching performance and the Yankees gained the upper hand with a 7-2 victory Sunday night.

For eight innings, the teams engaged in a tense duel that could have gone either way. Then came the ninth inning, when the Yankees scored five runs off Johnson, Baltimore's All-Star closer, to ruin the Orioles' first home playoff game since 1997.

"You always want to take the first one, but you go game by game," said New York's Robinson Cano, who contributed a two-run double in the ninth. "Enjoy this game and just go home get some sleep and be ready for (Game 2 on Monday)."

The Yankees have been to the playoffs in 17 of the last 18 years. This is Baltimore's first trip in 15 years, following 14 successive losing seasons.

"We stayed in as long as we could," Orioles right fielder Chris Davis said. "We're finding out what playoff baseball is all about."

Sabathia allowed two runs and eight hits, coming within an out of his first career complete game in the postseason. He was 0-2 in three starts against Baltimore during the regular season, but in this one the husky left-hander returned to form and improved his lifetime record against the Orioles to 17-4.

"Fastball command was good, worked off that," Sabathia said. "Throwing the ball pretty good, getting the corners. Tried to stay out there and make some pitches."

Sabathia is 6-1 with the Yankees in the postseason, 4-0 in the division series.

With the score 2-all, Martin drove a 2-0 pitch from Johnson into the left-field seats. It was the first of four straight hits off Johnson, who led the majors with 51 saves. Raul Ibanez and Derek Jeter followed with singles, Ichiro Suzuki drove in a run with a swinging bunt and one out later, Cano hit a two-run double.

In his seven prior appearances against New York, Johnson allowed one run in seven innings and had three saves. Nick Swisher capped the five-run ninth with a sacrifice fly off Tommy Hunter.

"I made mistakes," Johnson said. "I obviously paid for those, and that was location. It wasn't anything else. Two fastballs that really cost us. Just have to make a better pitch. That's all it comes down to."

The Orioles were left disappointed, but manager Buck Showalter was confident his team would be in bounce-back mode Monday.

"This is a very realistic club that lives in reality, but they also understand the sense of urgency," he said. "You can sit here and say you got beat by a quality pitcher, but that's why teams like that are playing this time of year. We have good, quality pitchers, too. I don't have any doubt what type of mentality our guys will have as we go forward in this series."

The start of the game was delayed by rain for 2 hours, 26 minutes, and that did nothing to lessen the enthusiasm of the 47,841 fans who waited so long for the Orioles to play a postseason game at Camden Yards.

"We're obviously disappointed we couldn't give them a win, but at least we're playing a five-game series instead of a shootout," Davis said.

Orioles starter Jason Hammel allowed two runs, four hits and four walks in 5 2-3 innings. The right-hander underwent knee surgery in July and returned to pitch two games in September before his right knee began to bother him again. After working his way back into form, Hammel donned a knee brace and gave Baltimore a solid 112-pitch outing in his first start in nearly a month.

New York missed an excellent chance to take the lead in the seventh. After Troy Patton walked Martin and Ibanez, Darren O'Day entered and Jeter dropped down a perfect two-strike sacrifice bunt. With the infield drawn in, Suzuki hit a sharp grounder to second baseman Robert Andino, who threw home. Matt Wieters grabbed the ball on the short hop and tagged out Martin. O'Day then struck out Alex Rodriguez.

Neither team got a runner in scoring position again until J.J. Hardy started the Baltimore eighth with a double. He did not advance.

"Being able to get out of that with a tie and give us a chance to get up and score some runs, which we did, was just a big spot," Sabathia said.

Immediately after Orioles fans cheered and waved their orange towels following a first-pitch strike by Hammel to open the game, the Yankees went to work. Jeter hit a leadoff single and Suzuki followed with an RBI double into the gap in left-center. But Suzuki was thrown out trying to steal third, and Hammel settled down by striking out Rodriguez and retiring Cano on a broken-bat fly to right.

Sabathia retired the first six batters he faced without allowing a ball out of the infield, then ran into trouble in the third inning. Davis led off with a single, Lew Ford singled and both runners moved up on a bunt before Nate McLouth bounced a two-run single into right field for a 2-1 lead.

New York promptly tied it in the fourth, but another potential big inning was short-circuited when a runner was thrown out on the base paths. After Hammel walked two of the first three batters, Mark Teixeira ripped a liner off the right-field scoreboard. The hit brought home a run, but Teixeira ? who only recently returned from a strained left calf ? was thrown out at second by Davis. That left Swisher at third base with two outs, and after an intentional walk to Curtis Granderson, Martin hit a fly to center.

Singles by Davis and Andino put runners at the corners with one out in the fifth before McLouth looked at a third strike and Hardy grounded out.

NOTES: Andy Pettitte will bring 42 games of playoff experience into Game 2 as the starting pitcher for the Yankees. Orioles rookie Wei-Yin Chen will be making his postseason debut. ... Wieters went 0 for 4 against Sabathia and now is 5 for 28 (.179) lifetime against him. ... In 16 career division series openers, Jeter is batting .448 (26 for 58) and reached base in 15 games. ... Suzuki has at least one hit in 10 of his 11 career postseason games and has reached base in all of them. He's also hit in 20 straight games at Camden Yards, a streak that began in 2008.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/yankees-jump-orioles-7-2-win-080000745--mlb.html

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Bank site hackers used advanced botnets

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By Joseph Menn

SAN FRANCISCO???The hackers behind the cyber attacks on major U.S. banks have repeatedly disrupted online banking by using sophisticated and diverse tools that point to a carefully coordinated campaign, according to security researchers.

The hackers, believed to be activists in the Middle East, were highly knowledgeable about the defensive equipment used by the banks and likely spent months on reconnaissance, said several researchers interviewed by Reuters, who viewed the assaults as among the strongest and most complex the world has seen to date.

In the past two weeks, customers of top U.S. banks including Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase & Co, Wells Fargo & Co, U.S. Bancorp and PNC Financial Services have reported having trouble accessing their websites, as unusually high traffic volumes appeared to crash or slow down the systems.

No thefts have been tied to hacked sites, but an untold number of customers were not able to pay bills or transfer money from their computers, leaving banks with remediation expenses and customer irritation as the biggest costs.

Researchers said the hackers used groups of compromised computers, known as botnets, which are inexpensive to rent for short periods. What made these botnets much more powerful was that they were made up of Web servers that had been taken over, instead of mere personal computers.

"Tens of thousands" of servers are involved, said Tom Kellermann, vice president of major security vendor Trend Micro.

The FBI declined to comment on its investigation of the attacks. The banks either declined to comment or noted that most customers have been able to log into their accounts.

"It's fairly large, but it's something financial institutions are accustomed to dealing with," said Doug Johnson, vice president of the American Bankers Association trade group.

Sources familiar with the bank attacks have previously told Reuters that they could be part of a year-long cyber campaign waged by Iranian hackers against major U.S. financial institutions and other corporate entities.

Sen. Joseph Lieberman, chairman of the Senate's Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, has also blamed Iran's much-improved cyber forces on the bank website outages.

A group that calls itself the Cyber Fighters of Izz ad-din Al Qassam has claimed credit for the recent bank attacks, declaring them a protest against the anti-Islam video posted on YouTube and stoked violent protests across the Muslim world.

The latest attacks against the banks have thrown as many as 30 million electronic packets per second at the websites, at times overwhelming both the banks and the additional technical resources being moved into place to counter the attacks.

That much volume "would overwhelm almost anyone, including large telecommunications companies," said Scott Hammack, chief executive of Prolexic Technologies, which specializes in warding off "denial of service" attacks. Prolexic's clients include several of the biggest banks, though Hammack declined to name which ones.

Experts said that high-volume denial-of-service attacks were becoming more common even before the latest bank assaults and would continue to increase in sophistication as well.

"This entire episode speaks to the need for banks, or any business operating online, to be prepared for this type of availability attack," said Dan Holden, director of research at security firm Arbor Networks.?

(Additional reporting by Jim Finkle in Boston and Rick Rothacker in Charlotte, N.C.; Editing by Bernard Orr)

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Former Disney Exec Paul Yanover Takes Over As Fandango?s New President

Fandango has been steadily growing as the go-to place for users to purchase movie tickets online and on their mobile phone. But now it also wants to boost its original content, to become a go-to place for movie fans to learn about upcoming movies as well as those in theaters or available on Blu-ray. To do so, it's hired former Disney exec Paul Yanover. Yanover, who previously served as EVP and managing director of Disney Online, will report to NBCU President of Digital Nick Lehman. Fandango EVP and GM Rick Butler will remain at the company and continue to run Fandango's day-to-day operations. I spoke with Yanover earlier today, about what his plans are for Fandango, both as a place for users to purchase movie tickets and as a destination site for movie fans.

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Verizon iPhone 5 update fixes mobile data use on WiFi bug

Verizon customers received an unexpected bonus when they opted for the latest iPhone, but in an unfortunate case of carrier Karma, the necessary sacrifice was their mobile data. An update has been issued to fix a Verizon-specific bug which, "under certain circumstances," used cellular data when connected to WiFi. To plug the potential leak, you'll need to head to the About screen in the phone's Settings, General menu, where you should find a update prompt. Install, then -- importantly -- reboot, and if "Verizon 13.1" shows as your carrier in that same About tab, you know you're safe. We'd also recommend checking your data allowance with crossed fingers -- for what use is LTE if you've already hit your monthly cap?

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