[DNS] domain name news - 22 October

From: David Goldstein <david> Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 14:11:05 +1100 · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.3.0 : Sat Sep 09 2017 - 22:00:11 UTC

Don't forget to check out http://www.auda.org.au/domain-news/ for the archive of the last 3 months of the news. And see my website - http://GoldsteinReport.com/ - for daily updates in between postings.

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APNIC supports the first Australian IGF
http://www.apnic.net/publications/news/2012/apnic-supports-the-first-australian-igf

ICANN?s new CEO talks about balance of power by Milton Mueller
http://www.internetgovernance.org/2012/10/15/icanns-new-ceo-talks-about-balance-of-power/

ICANN Toronto: A Slight Change in the Atmosphere
http://www.gtldstrategy.com/policy-updates/icann-toronto-a-slight-change-in-the-atmosphere

ICANN: Government representatives take a critical look at DNS blocking
http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/ICANN-Government-representatives-take-a-critical-look-at-DNS-blocking-1731993.html

ICANN Toronto: what happened? Stephane Van Gelder of NetNames reports on the latest developments in Internet governance
http://www.netnames.com/blog/2012/10/icann-toronto-what-happened/

Major RPM Alterations ? Including Domain Registration ?Prior Restraint? -- Proposed as New gTLD ?Implementation? Measures by Philip Corwin
http://internetcommerce.org/DN_Registration_Prior_Restraint

Will the Real Trademark Clearinghouse Please Stand Up?
http://isenbergondomains.com/2012/10/18/will-the-real-trademark-clearinghouse-please-stand-up/

Dengate Thrush Steps Down As Top Level Domains Chair
http://www.domainpulse.com/2012/10/19/dengate-thrush-tldh-chair/

Australia?s unis seek to make name for themselves
http://afr.com/p/national/education/australia_unis_seek_to_make_name_FgUJbMTYEoiHjDic82pd3N

Akamai Releases Second Quarter 2012 'State of the Internet' Report
http://www.akamai.com/html/about/press/releases/2012/press_101712.html

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GOVERNANCE
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Muzzlers of the Free Internet: India is lobbying for bureaucrats to run the worldwide web
In recent months Internet governance has emerged as one of the most widely discussed issues in India because it covers aspects that are core to the access and penetration of the Internet in the country.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/indianews/article-2220692/How-India-helped-bunch-bureaucrats-custodians-Internet.html

APNIC supports the first Australian IGF
The first Australian Internet Governance Forum (auIGF) was held in Canberra, Australia, on 11 ? 12 October 2012. It is an initiative supported by a number of organizations including the .au Domain Administration (auDA), the Internet Society of Australia (ISOC-AU), the Internet Industry Association (IIA), the Australian Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (DBCDE), and APNIC.
http://www.apnic.net/publications/news/2012/apnic-supports-the-first-australian-igf

RIPE NCC Participates in First Arab IGF
The first Arab Internet Governance Forum (IGF) took place in Kuwait from 9-11 October, hosted by the Kuwait Information Technology Society (KITS) and attracting more than 290 participants from 16 countries throughout the Arab region and around the world.
http://www.ripe.net/internet-coordination/news/announcements/ripe-ncc-participates-in-first-arab-igf

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Toronto Reflections: Looking Back, Moving Ahead
Chehad? and Crocker talk about a New Spirit, New gTLDs and the Road to Beijing
https://www.myicann.org/news/topics/2/page/1/articles/15653
http://www.icann.org/en/news/press/kits/toronto45/video-post-meeting-19oct12-en.htm

Toronto GAC Communiqu?
https://gacweb.icann.org/download/attachments/4817665/FINAL_Toronto_Communique_20121017.pdf

ICANN?s new CEO talks about balance of power by Milton Mueller
The ICANN Toronto meeting marks the beginning of the tenure of Fadi Chehade as the organization?s CEO. Chehade has impressed almost everyone he has encountered with his conciliatory spirit and his willingness to listen. He is making a concerted effort to signal the changes in the organization and its direction that he will be making.
http://www.internetgovernance.org/2012/10/15/icanns-new-ceo-talks-about-balance-of-power/

ICANN Toronto: A Slight Change in the Atmosphere
You know that first day at the end of summer, before the temperature drops and the foliage changes, when there?s just something in the air, something different that tells you autumn is just around the corner?
http://www.gtldstrategy.com/policy-updates/icann-toronto-a-slight-change-in-the-atmosphere

ICANN: Government representatives take a critical look at DNS blocking
At the 45th ICANN meeting, UK and Dutch representatives have proposed developing an ICANN Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) recommendation on the poor cost effectiveness of Domain Name System (DNS) blocking.
http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/ICANN-Government-representatives-take-a-critical-look-at-DNS-blocking-1731993.html

ICANN Toronto: what happened? Stephane Van Gelder of NetNames reports on the latest developments in Internet governance
ICANN?s last international meeting of the year was held in Toronto last week. The new gTLD program and ongoing negotiations with the Registrar Accreditation Agreement were among headline items.
http://www.netnames.com/blog/2012/10/icann-toronto-what-happened/

ICANN 45 Toronto Speeches & Presentations
A selection of videos of speeches and presentations from ICANN 45 in Toronto, Canada.
http://www.youtube.com/user/ICANNnews

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Agreement Signed to Expand L-Root Servers Across Africa
ICANN and the Africa Network Information Center (AFRINIC) have signed an agreement pledging to work collaboratively to identify additional potential locations for the expansion of L-Root anycast instances in Africa.
http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-19oct12-en.htm

Latin America and the Caribbean: A Regional Strategy by Rodrigo de la Parra 
The day finally arrived. October 17th, 2012. Community members from Latin America and the Caribbean met at the ICANN45 meeting in Toronto to discuss a strategic plan for the region.
http://blog.icann.org/2012/10/latin-america-and-the-caribbean-a-regional-strategy/

An ICANN initiative to improve internet naming in Africa
Even though Africa?s population accounts for 14% of the world population, its internet users are only 6% of the world?s.
http://www.techzim.co.zw/2012/10/an-icann-initiative-to-improve-internet-naming-in-africa/

RAA negotiation updates and how it affects domainers
Huge changes might be coming to the way you register a domain name, and domain investors need to pay attention.
http://domainnamewire.com/2012/10/18/raa-icann-negotiations/

Lawsuits against ICANN and new TLDs start to roll in
As plans for a 2013 rollout of new TLDs marches forward, two companies have sued ICANN to stop it from issuing certain TLDs.
http://domainnamewire.com/2012/10/18/lawsuits-against-icann-and-new-tlds-start-to-roll-in/

African business leaders introduce internet dev't plan
Leaders of Africa's Internet community have unveiled a comprehensive plan designed to dramatically increase African involvement in ICANN's multi-stakeholder model.
http://www.modernghana.com/news/424952/1/african-business-leaders-introduce-internet-devt-p.html
http://allafrica.com/stories/201210191553.html

ICANN Africa Strategy Working Group presents regional plan
The ZA Central Registry (ZACR), the African Union-endorsed bidder for the proposed .africa domain name extension, has welcomed the commitment of ICANN to African internet development.
http://www.telecompaper.com/news/icann-africa-strategy-working-group-presents-regional-plan

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ca: Ontario Court Considers Tort Of Passing-Off Domain Names
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice recently ruled that the elements of the tort of passing-off in the context of internet domain names were established in Dentec Safety Specialists Inc. v. Degil Safety Products Inc. Although this is not the first case to consider passing off in the context of domain names, it sets out a useful summary of principles gleaned from the authorities.
http://www.mondaq.com/canada/x/202548/

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Major RPM Alterations ? Including Domain Registration ?Prior Restraint? -- Proposed as New gTLD ?Implementation? Measures by Philip Corwin
At the ICANN 45 meeting taking place in Toronto, an extensive list of proposed alterations of the rights protection measures (RPMs) for new gTLDs was presented to ICANN?s Board at a morning meeting on Tuesday, November 16th with ICANN?s Commercial Stakeholder Group.
http://internetcommerce.org/DN_Registration_Prior_Restraint

Original .web gTLD applicant sues ICANN
Image Online Design, which unsuccessfully applied for the .web gTLD all the way back in 2000, has sued ICANN, alleging trademark infringement and breach of contract.
http://domainincite.com/10783-original-web-gtld-applicant-sues-icann

.XXX was just the beginning ? get ready for 1934 new top level domains
... What is a company or brand to do in this massive, potentially confusing new world which promised to give us more than 2000 TLDs? VentureBeat talked to Liesbeth Mack-de Boer about what?s coming up, what?s hot, and what are some the pitfalls.
http://venturebeat.com/2012/10/20/xxx-was-just-the-beginning-get-ready-for-1934-new-top-level-domains/

Will the Real Trademark Clearinghouse Please Stand Up?
Presumably in anticipation of offering services as a provider of ICANN?s ?Trademark Clearinghouse? for new gTLDs, Deloitte has registered the domain name <trademark-clearinghouse.com> (with a hyphen) and is using it in connection with (as of today, October 18, 2012) an informational website, as shown in this screenshot:
http://isenbergondomains.com/2012/10/18/will-the-real-trademark-clearinghouse-please-stand-up/

ICANN's Noah: Chehade's 40-Day Report Card by Jonathan Zuck
Forty days. That's how long Fadi Chehade has had to get a handle on the most complex, diverse and important non-profit corporation the world has ever known. The last guy to face such an unforgiving timeline was measuring timber in cubits. So if Cheade is Noah, I guess that makes ICANN Chairman Steve Crocker God, telling Fadi to wrangle all these diverse (and often diverging) constituencies and march them two-by-two into the boat, ahead of the coming storm. more?
http://www.circleid.com/posts/20121017_icann_noah_chehades_40_day_report_card/

Looking Ahead - UDRP Bad Faith Analysis and New gTLDs by Sean Comerford
The Internet, at nearly every stage of its evolution, has effected change in existing intellectual property industries as those industries struggle to keep up with the march of technological advancement. For example, the entertainment industry has seen widespread piracy and bootlegging of just and soon-to-be released movies as a result of the increased availability of broadband Internet access in the home, and efficient peer-to-peer file-sharing technologies online. In response the entertainment industry has backed a wave of proposed legislation including the maligned Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA).
http://www.circleid.com/posts/20121017_looking_ahead_udrp_bad_faith_analysis_and_new_gtlds/

Dengate Thrush quits TLDH
Peter Dengate Thrush, executive chairman of new gTLD portfolio applicant Top Level Domain Holdings, has decided to quit not much more than a year into the job.
http://domainincite.com/10790-dengate-thrush-quits-tldh

Dengate Thrush Steps Down As Top Level Domains Chair
Peter Dengate Thrush, the former ICANN chair and controversial appointment as the executive chairman as Top Level Domains Holdings is to step down as a director at the end of January 2013.
http://www.domainpulse.com/2012/10/19/dengate-thrush-tldh-chair/

TOP LEVEL DOMAIN HOLDINGS LIMITED - Proposed Board Change
The Board of Directors of TLDH announces that Peter Dengate Thrush, the executive chairman, intends to step down as a director of TLDH at the end of January 2013.  Peter Dengate Thrush will remain as an adviser to some of the Company's gTLD clients.
http://www.investegate.co.uk/Article.aspx?id=201210180700099497O

Australia?s unis seek to make name for themselves
Universities plan to use TLDs to build their global brands and could give students email addresses they can keep for life, after they stumped up a combined total of more than $1?million to bid for a slice of the internet.
http://afr.com/p/national/education/australia_unis_seek_to_make_name_FgUJbMTYEoiHjDic82pd3N

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Domain Registration Risk Service now available
The Domain Registration Risk Calculator is a tool for domain registrars to analyse the likelihood that new domains will be used for fraudulent activities. The service identifies domains which are deceptively similar to legitimate websites run by banks and other institutions commonly targeted by phishing attacks.
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2012/10/15/domain-registration-risk-service-now-available.html

APWG Phishing Activity Trends Report - Phishing Activity Trends Report
... Phishing attacks targeting consumers remained at high levels during the quarter, with 25,000 to 30,000 unique phishing e?mail campaigns documented each month. Each campaign can involve hundreds of thousands or millions of e-mails sent to consumers. There are hundreds of phishing websites established online every day, luring any number of consumers to trouble and loss.
http://www.antiphishing.org/reports/apwg_trends_report_q1_2012.pdf

Midpoint report on the first European Cyber Security Month: A Successful Start [news release]
Halfway through the first European Cyber Security Month (ECSM), the pilot campaign has already reached 1,986,270 people on Facebook Europe-wide. In addition, a special Security Month awareness event has taken place every two days in one of the participating countries. 
http://www.enisa.europa.eu/media/press-releases/midpoint-report-on-the-first-european-cyber-security-month-a-successful-start

Dutch Government Seeks to Let Law Enforcement Hack Foreign Computers [IDG]
The Dutch government wants to give law enforcement authorities the power to hack into computers, including those located in other countries, for the purpose of discovering and gathering evidence during cybercrime investigations.
http://www.cio.com/article/719307/Dutch_Government_Seeks_to_Let_Law_Enforcement_Hack_Foreign_Computers
http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/439620/dutch_government_seeks_let_law_enforcement_hack_foreign_computers/

Rogue Pharma, Fake AV Vendors Feel Credit Card Crunch
New research suggests that companies behind some of America?s best known consumer brands may be far more effective at fighting cybercrime than any efforts to enact more stringent computer security and anti-piracy laws.
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2012/10/rogue-pharma-fake-av-vendors-feel-credit-card-crunch/

us: Why the Government's Cybersecurity Plan Will End in Catastrophe
Last week Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta presented his case for an invasive system to monitor the nation's private systems in order to better identify and respond to cyber threats.
http://www.cio.com/article/719295/Why_the_Government_s_Cybersecurity_Plan_Will_End_in_Catastrophe

U.S. defense chief calls cyberspace battlefront of the future
Cyberspace is the battlefield of the future, with attackers already going after banks and other financial institutions and developing the ability to strike U.S. power grids and government systems, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Friday.
http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/10/20/usa-defense-cyber-idINDEE89J00B20121020

Team up to fight cyberattacks, US government official urges [IDG]
Groups of companies in the same industry could pool infrastructure resources to help each other mitigate the effects of cyberattacks and work together on security issues, a senior official in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security suggested on Friday.
http://www.techhive.com/article/2012770/team-to-fight-cyberattacks-us-government-official-urges.html

Malware Threatens Medical Device Security
Malware increasingly is infecting hospital systems and the software that runs in-patient monitoring devices, according to government panelists cited in MIT Technology Review. Despite concerns, however, there is no public evidence that patients have been harmed.
http://www.informationweek.com/healthcare/security-privacy/malware-threatens-medical-device-securit/240009311

Can bankers make the Internet less risky and more secure?
I've been going back and forth with my colleague Charles Kology on the issue of gTLDs and a recent proposal bankers to secure .bank and .insurance for exclusive industry use.
http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/idc-insight/2012/10/can-bankers-make-the-internet-less-risky-and-more-secure/index.htm

Ally Financial latest U.S. bank to face cyber attack
Ally Financial Inc said on Thursday it was monitoring "unusual activity" on its web site, the latest U.S. bank to report internet issues following recent cyber attacks that have been linked to Iran.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/10/19/uk-ally-cyberattacks-idUKBRE89I00720121019
http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/10/19/ally-cyberattacks-idINDEE89I00B20121019

HSBC Is the Latest Attack Victim - Tenth Bank Affected by DDoS in Recent Weeks
HSBC Holdings, a British multinational bank with U.S. headquarters in Mettawa, Ill., on Oct. 18 became the 10th bank in recent weeks to suffer online outages as a result of a distributed denial of service attack.
http://www.bankinfosecurity.com/hsbc-latest-attack-victim-a-5213

DOS hackers take HSBC websites down
Some of HSBC's online web portals are still offline as the result of a denial-of-service attack, which resulted in customers being unable to use the web services.
http://www.zdnet.com/dos-hackers-take-hsbc-websites-down-7000006015/

New Survey Shows U.S. Small Business Owners Not Concerned About Cybersecurity; Majority Have No Policies or Contingency Plans [news release]
U.S. small business owners or operators have a false sense of cybersecurity as more than three-fourths (77 percent) say their company is safe from cyber threats such as hackers, viruses, malware or a cybersecurity breach, yet 83 percent have no formal cybersecurity plan. These findings are from a new survey released today of 1,015 U.S. small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) by the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) and Symantec.
http://www.symantec.com/about/news/release/article.jsp?prid=20121015_01

FCC: Cybersecurity Awareness Expo
In recognition of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the Federal Communications Commission will host a technology exhibition and presentations on mobile security on Wednesday, October 17, 2012.
http://www.fcc.gov/events/cybersecurity-awareness-expo

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Another Cybersquatting Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff
Here are the lessons that we've learned as a result of actually getting out in front of a judge and a jury, and trying these ACPA cases. Number one, they are challenging cases because there's so little case law out there to help judges understand cybersquatting law issues. The other thing that is very clear is that so few judges have trademark law experience, let alone cybersquatting law experience that you have to be very careful about educating the judge.
http://tcattorney.typepad.com/anticybersquatting_consum/2012/07/another-cybersquatting-judgment-in-favor-of-plaintiff.html

uk/it: Cipriani restaurant forced to change name in trademark dispute
A new restaurant in Northern Ireland is being forced to change its name due to a trademark dispute with a famous Italian hotel. ... The restaurateur has also agreed to a series of undertakings, including the destruction of all menus, advertisements, and other materials bearing the plaintiff's trademark and the transferral of the pizzeria's online domain name.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-20014901

uk/it: Cipriani pizzeria to change name after alleged breach of trademark
A new Belfast pizzeria whose Italian owner says he named his restaurant after reading about England rugby player Danny Cipriani, has been taken to task by a world famous Venice hotel. ... An online domain name for Cipriani pizzeria is also to be transferred over.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/cipriani-pizzeria-to-change-name-after-alleged-breach-of-trademark-16227068.html

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Akamai Releases Second Quarter 2012 'State of the Internet' Report
Akamai Technologies, Inc. ... released its Second Quarter, 2012 State of the Internet report. Based on data gathered from the Akamai Intelligent Platform?, the report provides insight into key global statistics such as Internet penetration, mobile connection speeds, origins of attack traffic, and global and regional connection speeds. ... Industry numbers show imminent global exhaustion of IPv4 addresses; Akamai identifies 460 times increase in IPv6 requests over its platform from June 2011 ? June 2012
http://www.akamai.com/html/about/press/releases/2012/press_101712.html

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Africa to launch own Internet exchange point
An African Union (AU) Internet expert said Wednesday that Africa would establish its own Internet Exchange Point in Gambia to avoid costly fees paid to overseas service providers.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/sci/2012-10/18/c_131914762.htm

Barack Obama Using Boliva ccTLD, Mitt Romney Using Trinidad & Tobago ccTLD
If you follow US politics and the upcoming presidential election, you likely follow President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney on Twitter. To make the most use of the limited space on Twitter, most people use url shorteners, the Twitter default being T.CO.
http://www.elliotsblog.com/barack-obama-boliva-mitt-romney-trinidad-and-tobago-7575

RIR Comparative Policy Overview 2012-03
The goal of this document is to provide a comparative overview of policies across the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) system. It is not a policy statement by the RIRs, but serves as a reference for the Internet community.
http://www.nro.net/news/rir-comparative-policy-overview-2012-03

Monte Cahn on ROTD, Televisions.com, and more
A couple weeks ago Right of the Dot, a company formed by Monte Cahn and Michael Berkens, announced that it was the broker for Televisions.com and related domains.
http://domainnamewire.com/2012/10/18/monte-cahn-on-rotd-televisions-com-and-more/

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Oversee.net Announces Online Registration For Webfest Global 2013
DomainSponsor?, the online direct navigation traffic monetization unit of Oversee.net? and organizer of the critically acclaimed DOMAINfest? series of domestic and international conferences, announced today that online registration is now open for its Webfest GlobalTM conference to be held February 5-7, 2013 at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica, California.
http://oversee.net/news/496

DOMAINfest rebrands as Webfest Global
Oversee.net?s DOMAINfest has new name beginning with next year?s show: Webfest Global.
http://domainnamewire.com/2012/10/18/domainfest-rebrands-as-webfest-global/

DOMAINfest Global Gets a New Name and Joins T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Las Vegas in Opening Registration for 2013 Shows That Will Run on a Revamped Playing Field
In recent years Oversee.net has been steadily broadening the focus of their DOMAINfest Global conference to include a wide variety of website development, marketing, monetization and SEO topics - a makeover that has transformed it from a pure domain conference into a one stop Internet business summit.
http://www.dnjournal.com/archive/lowdown/2012/dailyposts/20121018.htm

George Kirikos Uncovers Three Blockbuster Sales Totaling Over $1.1 Million With That Trio Filling the Top Spots on This Week's Sales Chart
I was away covering the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. 2012 conference through Wednesday of this week. That pushed the publication schedule for this weekly column back three days, resulting in this rare Saturday release of our weekly domain sales report.
http://dnjournal.com/archive/domainsales/2012/20121017.htm

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After 79 years in print, Newsweek goes digital only
Newsweek, one of the most internationally recognized magazine brands in the world, will cease publishing a print edition after nearly 80 years.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/10/18/uk-newsweek-digital-idUKBRE89H0KX20121018

Newsweek Had Unique Troubles as Industry Recovers [AP]
Newsweek's decision to stop publishing a print edition after 80 years and bet its life entirely on a digital future may be more a commentary on its own problems than a definitive statement on the health of the magazine industry.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2012/10/19/us/ap-us-newsweek-print-demise.html

At Newsweek, Ending Print and a Blend of Two Styles
>From the start, it was an unwieldy melding of two newsrooms: a legacy print magazine, Newsweek, combined with an irreverent digital news site, The Daily Beast. It had high-profile ownership, first in Sidney Harman and then in Barry Diller, and it was held together by the experienced magazine editor Tina Brown, looking for one more big hit on her r?sum?.
http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/18/newsweek-will-cease-print-publication-at-end-of-year/

Brazilian newspapers pull out of Google News
Newspapers accounting for 90% of the circulation in Brazil have abandoned Google News.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-20018221

Internet firms driving information technology industry growth, says OECD [news release]
Internet firms continue to drive growth and job creation in the IT industry, with fast-rising demand for mobile services helping to boost revenue and investment in research and development, according to a new OECD report.
http://www.oecd.org/newsroom/internetfirmsdrivinginformationtechnologyindustrygrowthsaysoecd.htm

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SOCIAL MEDIA
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Twitter Gives Saudi Arabia a Revolution of Its Own
Saudi Arabia did not have an Arab Spring. But it has had a revolution of sorts. Open criticism of this country?s royal family, once unheard-of, has become commonplace in recent months. Prominent judges and lawyers issue fierce public broadsides about large-scale government corruption and social neglect. Women deride the clerics who limit their freedoms. Even the king has come under attack.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/21/world/middleeast/twitter-gives-saudi-arabia-a-revolution-of-its-own.html

Twitter and Facebook 'harming children's development'
A generation of children risks growing up with obsessive personalities, poor self-control, short attention spans and little empathy because of an addiction to social networking websites such as Twitter, a leading neuroscientist has warned.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/9620117/Twitter-and-Facebook-harming-childrens-development.html

Facebook privacy targeted by Austrian law student
To carry on his war against Facebook, Max Schrems figures he needs at least ?200,000 ? about $250,000 ? no small sum for a law student scraping by on a government stipend.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/facebook-privacy-targeted-by-austrian-law-student/2012/10/19/45a38efc-e70c-11e1-936a-b801f1abab19_story.html

A new internet age? Web users turn on 'trolls'
When mourners arrived at the peace park in Maple Ridge, Vancouver, to pay tribute to Amanda Todd this week, few could have realised quite how widely the effects of the 15-year-old's death were being felt.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/oct/19/new-internet-age-trolls

Internet's biggest troll says sorry... 'to some degree'
A man recently dubbed the "biggest troll" in the history of the internet has offered a cautious apology, saying he is "to some degree" sorry for his online behaviour, but blaming it on an addiction that was cruelly exploited by his favourite social networking website.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/internets-biggest-troll-says-sorry-to-some-degree-8218934.html

Taming the trolls ? social media risks for business
Most businesses would accept they should be responsible for material they post on social media platforms hosted by them.
http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/taming-trolls-social-media-risks-business-ja-130924

au: Abusive websites could be charged
A senior detective in the Victoria Police e-crime squad has said there may be grounds to prosecute the creators of a Facebook page that denigrated Jill Meagher, the 29-year-old Brunswick woman who was abducted and killed last month.
http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/abusive-websites-could-be-charged-20121018-27tz3.html
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/abusive-websites-could-be-charged-20121018-27tz3.html

au: Facebook asked to close undercover cop page
Victoria Police has complained to Facebook, saying a page dedicated to exposing the state's undercover police cars is putting officers and operations at risk.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-10-21/facebook-asked-to-close-undercover-cop-page/4325160

Man slapped when he looks at Facebook 'to increase productivity'
A computer programmer claims he increased his productivity at work by hiring a woman to slap him every time she catches him looking at Facebook.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/9616910/Man-slapped-when-he-looks-at-Facebook-to-increase-productivity.html

Facebook: We Weren?t Moving Fast Enough in Mobile
One of Facebook?s mottos is ?Move Fast.? Indeed, there are posters extolling that mind-set throughout the company?s offices. But when it comes to mobile, even Facebook wasn?t moving fast enough. That was the message on Friday from Facebook Mobile VP Vaughan Smith.
http://allthingsd.com/20121019/facebook-we-werent-moving-fast-enough-in-mobile/

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CHILD PROTECTION & ONLINE SAFETY
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Why cyber-bullying endures: Anonymous cyber-bullies have no empathy to their victims when trolling the internet.
When Amanda Todd was thirteen years old, she met a man on the internet who told her she was beautiful. He was a stranger and she was flattered by the attention. He asked her to take off her clothes, and Amanda, a seventh grader at a Canadian junior high school, flashed her breasts. He said she was "stunning" and "perfect".
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/10/2012101792211694227.html

au: Paedophiles targeting single mothers online
Police say a disturbing online trend is emerging where paedophiles are grooming single mothers on internet dating sites in order to get to their children.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-10-19/paedophiles-targeting-single-mothers-online/4321986

uk: Self-harm websites top list of teenagers' greatest worries about the internet
Charities last night called for the Government to act after new research revealed that websites encouraging suicide and self-harm topped a list of teenagers' greatest worries about the internet. The findings have raised fears that growing numbers of young people are becoming vulnerable to the messages being put out by such sites.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/selfharm-websites-top-list-of-teenagers-greatest-worries-about-the-internet-8219597.html

ca: Cyberbullying-linked suicides rising, study says
Cases of suicides linked to cyberbullying have grown over the past decade, but being tormented over the internet is rarely the main factor involved, a new Canadian study shows.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/10/19/cyberbullying-suicide-study.html

ca/nz: Kiwi teenager targeted after online posts
Police say a Raglan teen who posted distasteful pictures of a Canadian girl who committed suicide is not one of the bullies who prompted her death, but his actions are a warning for computer users.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/crime/news/article.cfm?c_id=30&objectid=10841869

ca/nz: Police probe NZ teen link to Amanda Todd
New Zealand police are talking to a Raglan teenager in relation to the high-profile suicide of Canadian teenager Amanda Todd.
http://www.3news.co.nz/Police-probe-NZ-teen-link-to-Amanda-Todd/tabid/423/articleID/273396/Default.aspx

ca: Growing curse of cyber-bullying
It seems we are finally taking the horrendous crime of cyber-bullying seriously. Parliamentarians are now looking at strategies to prevent acts of bullying that have too often driven young people to such unbearable pain that they have taken their own lives. It is a national crisis that warrants a national strategy ? something that should have been formulated a long time ago.
http://www.torontosun.com/2012/10/18/growing-curse-of-cyber-bullying-2

Calgary police working to combat cyberbullying, says chief
Police Chief Rick Hanson says bullying is a growing issue in Calgary, that is quickly changing with the internet.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/story/2012/10/19/calgary-bullying-police-rick-hanson-amanda-todd.html

uk: Not alone: Amanda Todd case emphasises the importance of helping victims of cyberbullying - BeatBullying's chief executive writes on the growing problem of online abuse
More than 1 in 3 young people in the UK have been a victim of cyberbulllying, with 1 in 13 suffering from persistent abuse online. That abuse is cruel, invasive and intimidating. And the results, as we saw with the tragic case of Amanda Todd, can be devastating.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/how-amanda-todd-case-emphasises-1385462

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ONLINE TV, MUSIC & PIRACY
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us: Internet providers to begin warning customers who pirate content
It is about to get a bit more difficult to illegally download TV shows, movies or music online. A new alert system, rolling out over the next two months, will repeatedly warn and possibly punish people violating digital copyrights.
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/10/18/tech/web/copyright-alert-system/index.html

us: Internet Service Providers Are About to Crack Down on lllegal File-Sharing
Back in July 2011, a coalition of U.S. Internet providers -- including AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, Cablevision, and Time Warner Cable -- signed on to an agreement to crack down on online copyright infringers. Or, well, to "crack down." The terms of the agreement emphasized user education over user punishment: Instead of cutting infringing users off from Internet services, the providers dreamed up a "six strikes" approach to infringement notification: Copyright holders would do their standard scanning for infringement.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/10/internet-service-providers-are-about-to-crack-down-on-lllegal-file-sharing/263714/
http://mashable.com/2012/10/17/lllegal-file-sharing/

First NZ three-strikes case falls through
The Recording Industry Association of New Zealand (RIANZ) today withdrew one of the first cases of alleged illegal filesharing to be heard by the Copyright Tribunal.
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/319854,first-nz-three-strikes-case-falls-through.aspx

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MOBILE/WIRELESS
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Samsung Galaxy Tab 'does not copy Apple's iPad designs'
Samsung did not copy Apple's iPad designs in building its Galaxy Tab product, the court of appeal ruled on Thursday, reinforcing an earlier decision in which a judge said the Korean company's designs were not as "cool".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/oct/18/samsung-galaxy-tab-apple-ipad

Apple loses UK tablet design appeal versus Samsung
Apple has lost its appeal against a UK ruling that Samsung had not infringed its design rights.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19989750

Google and Microsoft under threat from the march of the mobiles
We're used to the idea of "peak oil" ? that there's only a finite amount of that stuff in the ground. What's the equivalent in the computing field? Two of them seem to be happening at the same time: "peak desktop" and "peak search" ? both of which raise serious questions for two titans of the business, Microsoft and Google, which reported their quarterly results on Thursday.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/oct/19/google-microsoft-smartphone-apps

it: Mobiles can give you a tumour, court rules
Mobile phones CAN cause brain tumours, according to a landmark court ruling.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4597109/Mobiles-can-give-you-a-tumour-court-rules.html

Mobile phones can cause brain tumours, court rules.
A landmark court case has ruled there is a link between using a mobile phone and brain tumours, paving the way for a flood of legal actions.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/9619514/Mobile-phones-can-cause-brain-tumours-court-rules..html

Phone call translator app to be offered by NTT Docomo
An app offering real-time translations is to allow people in Japan to speak to foreigners over the phone with both parties using their native tongue.
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-20004210

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SPAM
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Singapore to Fine Spammers $8,000 per E-mail Sent
Singapore, a country famous for its strict punishments for even minor crimes, again lived up to its reputation with a new law threatening a fine of 10,000 Singaporean Dollars (US$8,000) for every single unwanted e-mail sent for the purposes of solicitation otherwise known as spam.
http://en.rocketnews24.com/2012/10/19/singapore-to-fine-spammers-8000-per-e-mail-sent/

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ONLINE CRIME & LEGAL
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Organised cyber baddies following the money trail
A surge in the number of apps and portable devices used on computer networks could be creating new opportunities for hackers.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-10-20/major-computer-networks-at-risk-from-cyber-mafia/4324448

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SECURITY
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APWG Phishing Activity Trends Report - Phishing Activity Trends Report
... Phishing attacks targeting consumers remained at high levels during the quarter, with 25,000 to 30,000 unique phishing e?mail campaigns documented each month. Each campaign can involve hundreds of thousands or millions of e-mails sent to consumers. There are hundreds of phishing websites established online every day, luring any number of consumers to trouble and loss.
http://www.antiphishing.org/reports/apwg_trends_report_q1_2012.pdf