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ICANN President Encourages Arab Involvement In Shaping the Internet?s Future; Arab Multi-Stakeholder Internet Meeting Wraps Up [news release]
<http://www.domainpulse.com/2013/03/06/icann-president-encourages-arab-involvement/>

Uniform Rapid Suspension Procedure and Rules
<http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/announcements-and-media/announcement-05mar13-en>

Posting of Public Interest Commitments (PIC) Specifications
<http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/announcements-and-media/announcement-2-05mar13-en>

ICANN to publish unfinished RAA tomorrow
<http://domainincite.com/12133-icann-to-publish-unfinished-raa-tomorrow>

CENTR Monthly Roundup, .AU Consults, .RU Neutralises Domains And .CA Internet Forum
<http://www.domainpulse.com/2013/03/04/centr-roundup-au-ru-ca/>

PICs could be Beijing deal-breaker for new gTLDs
<http://domainincite.com/12138-pics-could-be-beijing-deal-breaker-for-new-gtlds>

Deutsche Telekom Unveils Real-time Map of Global Cyberattacks [IDG]
<http://www.cio.com/article/729829/Deutsche_Telekom_Unveils_Real_time_Map_of_Global_Cyberattacks>

Iconic Aussie domains up for grabs
<http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/iconic-aussie-domains-up-for-grabs/story-e6frgakx-1226591435821>

Key Australian Capital City Domains Up For Sale
<http://www.domainpulse.com/2013/03/06/key-australian-domains-for-sale/>

au: Capital city websites up for sale
<http://www.theage.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/capital-city-websites-up-for-sale-20130306-2fl05.html>


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Indonesian govt urged to uphold human rights in regulating Internet
A coalition of Indonesian civil society groups wants the government to focus on human rights at an international conference on Internet governance in Bali Island in October.
<http://sg.news.yahoo.com/indonesian-govt-urged-uphold-human-rights-regulating-internet-090003786.html>

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ICANN President Encourages Arab Involvement In Shaping the Internet?s Future; Arab Multi-Stakeholder Internet Meeting Wraps Up [news release]
The President of ICANN says it is time for the Arab world to step up its involvement in determining the future of the Internet.
<http://www.icann.org/en/news/press/releases/release-06mar13-en>
<http://goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=19924>
<http://www.domainpulse.com/2013/03/06/icann-president-encourages-arab-involvement/>

Uniform Rapid Suspension Procedure and Rules
An updated version of the Uniform Rapid Suspension System (URS) Procedure and the URS Rules are now available for download.
<http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-05mar13-en.htm>
<http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/announcements-and-media/announcement-05mar13-en>

Posting of Public Interest Commitments (PIC) Specifications
In an announcement on 5 February 2013, ICANN requested that New gTLD applicants submit PIC Specifications. PIC Specifications provide applicants with the opportunity to make public interest commitments based on statements made in their applications and/or additional public interest commitments which were not included in their applications but to which they intend to commit. These commitments will become part of the applicant?s new gTLD registry agreement.
<http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/announcements-and-media/announcement-2-05mar13-en>
<http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-2-05mar13-en.htm>

New Deadline - Call for Applicants for the Meeting Strategy Working Group: Friday 8 March 2013 - 23:59 UTC
In line with the Board resolution adopted on February the 2nd 2013, ICANN invited interested individuals to apply for Volunteer Member positions ? either in representation of a Supporting Organization or Advisory Committee -- to serve on the Meeting Strategy Working Group.
<http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-04mar13-en.htm>

Whois Registrant ID Study Webinar Invitation
You are invited to a review of the findings of the Registrant ID Study Draft Report, recently published for public comment. The authors of the report (NORC) and ICANN Policy Staff will provide a briefing on Wednesday 6 March at 12.00 UTC and Wednesday 6 March at 19.00 UTC to summarize the findings from the WHOIS Registrant ID Study.
<http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-2-04mar13-en.htm>

ICANN to publish unfinished RAA tomorrow
ICANN will tomorrow publish for public comment a version of the 2013 Registrar Accreditation Agreement that accredited registrars have not yet agreed to.
<http://domainincite.com/12133-icann-to-publish-unfinished-raa-tomorrow>

New expired domain rules go into effect in August
The new ?Expired Registration Recovery Policy? (ERRP) goes into effect August 31.
<http://domainnamewire.com/2013/03/04/new-expired-domain-rules-go-into-effect-in-august/>

Who Runs the Internet? ICANN Attempts to Clarify the Answer With This Map
ICANN has released a "living" graphic aimed to provide a high-level view of how the internet is run attuned for those less familiar with the inner workings of the internet infrastructure ecosystem. Quoting from the document:
<http://www.circleid.com/posts/20130306_who_runs_the_internet_icann_attempts_to_clarify_answer_with_map/>

Brazil to be 1st country to have ICANN representation
Brazil will be the first country in the world to have local representation for ICANN.
<http://www.telecompaper.com/news/brazil-to-be-1st-country-to-have-icann-representation--928692>

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CENTR Monthly Roundup, .AU Consults, .RU Neutralises Domains And .CA Internet Forum
CENTR have published their monthly roundup on what members have been up to recently, a survey on member outages for maintenance, the growth in the full member zone that now has over 65 million domain names under management and an extract from the CENTR paper Fifth World Telecommunication/ICT Policy Forum.
<http://www.domainpulse.com/2013/03/04/centr-roundup-au-ru-ca/>
<http://www.domainnews.com/en/centr-monthly-roundup-au-consults-ru-neutralises-domains-and-ca-internet-forum.html>

.at report Celebrates 25 Years Of... .AT
A short email to the University of Vienna that said ?DONE? in January 1988 was how internet pioneer Jon Postel confirmed .at had been added to the domain name system, laying the foundation for the introduction of Austrian internet domains recounts the latest .at report from the Austrian registry nic.at.
<http://www.domainpulse.com/2013/03/06/at-report-celebrates-25-years-of-at/>
<http://www.domainnews.com/en/at-report-celebrates-25-years-of-at.html>

ca: Delta man wages crusade against racist, offensive comments on Craigslist [Canadian Press]
... Michael Stewart, a spokesman for the Canadian Internet Registration Authority, said his member-driven organization, which manages domain names ending with .ca, doesn?t specify where an individual should live or where their servers must be located.
<http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Delta+wages+crusade+against+racist+offensive+comments/7981521/story.html>

EURid's latest progress report: '.euphoria' in 2012 [registration]
EURid has announced in its latest progress report that registrations under the ?.eu? TLD in the third quarter of 2012 grew by more than 7% for the second consecutive quarter. The third quarter's net growth rate of 7.4% was consistent with the second quarter's 7.6% result and took the total number of domain names registered under ?.eu? to 3.67 million.
<http://www.worldtrademarkreview.com/daily/detail.aspx?g=97e98e0f-fb62-4cde-81b1-8dc6d15dd039>

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PICs could be Beijing deal-breaker for new gTLDs
ICANN?s Governmental Advisory Committee may delay the approval of new gTLDs if applicants don?t submit Public Interest Commitments tomorrow.
<http://domainincite.com/12138-pics-could-be-beijing-deal-breaker-for-new-gtlds>

Closed Generics Debate Rages On by St?phane Van Gelder
The new gTLD program continues to throw up last-minute debates on what is acceptable as a TLDs and what is not. The latest such verbal joust centers around closed generics. These are generic terms being applied for by applicants whom, should they be successful, will not open the TLD up to everyone on an equal access basis. As an example, think .book being run by Amazon and only available to Amazon customers.
<http://www.circleid.com/posts/20130305_closed_generics_debate_rages_on/>

Interview with Avri Doria on the History of Community gTLDs
Community gTLDs play an interesting and even unique role in the ICANN new gTLD process. They reflect the community-driven nature of the Internet. Indeed the story of how Community gTLDs came about is a fascinating example of the how bottom-up process can give rise to innovative policy outcomes.
<http://www.circleid.com/posts/20130305_interview_with_avri_doria_on_the_history_of_community_gtlds/>

Two More New gTLD Applications Withdrawn: .HEINZ & .KETCHUP
ICANN just posted on its site the withdrawal of two more new gTLD applications bring the total of withdrawn applications to 21.
<http://www.thedomains.com/2013/03/05/two-more-new-gtld-applications-withdrawn-heinz-ketchup/>

Arabic domains important if Middle East wants to profit from internet
The organisation overseeing global website addresses and internet policy says more sites in the Arab world should have local domain names. Icann highlighted the lack of sites taking local domain addresses at the first Arab Internet Governance Forum to be held in Dubai.
http://www.thenational.ae/news/uae-news/arabic-domains-important-if-middle-east-wants-to-profit-from-internet

Go Daddy Withdraws New gTLD Applications to Focus on Registry Relationships
Go Daddy announced on Wednesday that it has rescinded two of its new gTLD applications, .home and .casa, in order to focus on providing non-competitive services to its registry partners.
<http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/go-daddy-withdraws-new-gtld-applications-to-focus-on-registry-relationships>

Go Daddy to withdraw applications for .Home and .Casa top level domains
Domain registrar abandons plans for its own TLDs. Go Daddy is abandoning its applications for the .home and .casa TLDs, the company announced today.
<http://domainnamewire.com/2013/03/06/go-daddy-home-casa-tld/>

ICANN?s ?Geographic Names Panel? Says .Vegas Is Not A Geo
.Vegas apparently is not a Geo, so says the ICANN Geographic Names Panel.
<http://www.thedomains.com/2013/03/05/icann-geographic-names-panel-says-vegas-is-not-a-geo/>

Pat Pilcher: Domain name ding dong
ICANN, the organisation who looks after internet domain names such as nzherald.co.nz is soon to put a new wrinkle on internet addresses that will incorporate new TLDs.
<http://www.nzherald.co.nz/internet/news/article.cfm?c_id=137&objectid=10869352>

'Trademark Clearinghouse' for new gTLDs to open March 26
The avalanche of new gTLDs will soon be upon us. Trademark owners will need to contend with the prospect of cybersquatting not only in .com, .org, and other familiar TLDs but also in hundreds more, likely including extensions such as .web, .shop, and .app and even some in non-Latin scripts.
<http://www.fr.com/trademark-clearinghouse-gTLD/>

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Deutsche Telekom Unveils Real-time Map of Global Cyberattacks [IDG]
Deutsche Telekom launched a Web portal Wednesday that provides a real-time visualization of cyberattacks detected by its network of sensors placed around the world.
<http://www.cio.com/article/729829/Deutsche_Telekom_Unveils_Real_time_Map_of_Global_Cyberattacks>
<http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/030613-deutsche-telekom-unveils-real-time-map-267452.html>

Good cybersecurity means better privacy - opinion
The debate on cybersecurity has produced a sideshow centered around the belief that added security means a reduction in privacy. Such views are nonsense. Quite simply, digital privacy cannot exist without cybersecurity.
<http://money.cnn.com/2013/03/05/technology/security/cybersecurity-privacy/index.html>

Civil Society Hung Out To Dry in Global Cyber Espionage by Ron Deibert & Sarah McKune
Public attention to the secretive world of cyber espionage has risen to a new level in the wake of the APT1: Exposing One of China's Cyber Espionage Units report by security company Mandiant. By specifically naming China as the culprit and linking cyber espionage efforts to the People's Liberation Army, Mandiant has taken steps that few policymakers have been willing to take publicly, given the significant diplomatic implications.
<http://www.circleid.com/posts/20130304_civil_society_hung_out_to_dry_in_global_cyber_espionage/>

Security and Reliability: A Deeper Dive into Network Assessments by Brett Watson
As noted in the first part of this series, Security and Reliability encompasses holistic network assessments, vulnerability assessments, and penetration testing. In this post I'd like to go deeper into network assessments. I stated last time that the phrase "network assessment" is broad.
<http://www.circleid.com/posts/20130304_security_and_reliability_a_deeper_dive_into_network_assessments/>

Interpreting the second wave of cyber security threats to China
The U.S. has two times challenged China in the field of Internet governance. The first challenge came in the form of a speech delivered by former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Internet freedom following Google's withdrawal from the Chinese mainland. The second came earlier this month as a private security firm, Mandiant, released a report accusing the Chinese military of stealing U.S. intellectual property.
<http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/opinion/2013-03/04/content_16274933.htm>

Pentagon cyberdefenses weak, report warns
A new report for the Pentagon concludes that the nation?s military is unprepared for a full-scale cyber-conflict with a top-tier adversary and must ramp up its offensive prowess.
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/pentagon-cyberdefenses-weak-report-warns/2013/03/05/b0c8af5a-8504-11e2-999e-5f8e0410cb9d_story.html>

Google, Apple and Microsoft may be exempt from Obama?s cybersecurity order
Telecommunications companies want President Barack Obama?s administration to rethink a decision that may exempt Google Inc.?s Gmail, Apple Inc.?s iPhone software and Microsoft Corp.?s Windows from an executive order on cybersecurity.
<http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-05/google-exception-in-obama-s-cyber-order-questioned-as-unwise-gap.html>
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/google-exception-in-obamas-cyber-order-questioned-as-unwise-gap/2013/03/05/425a2430-8555-11e2-a80b-3edc779b676f_story.html>
<http://www.bloomberg.com/video/google-exception-in-obama-s-cyber-order-questioned-9myfBueCT6aDLYKpirDn7w.html>

Bank DDoS Attacks Resume
A number of U.S. banks are dealing with online service disruptions as hacktivists reportedly have launched another round of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against financial institutions.
<http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/bank-ddos-attacks-resume-030613>

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Recent signals point to escalating jitters for IPv4 market
Publications discussing the transition to the IPv6 addressing system have revealed mounting anxiety regarding the economics and service impact of the global shortage of IPv4 addresses.
<http://www.networkworld.com/news/tech/2013/030413-ipv4-267303.html>

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Go Daddy to lose the .com
That iconic GoDaddy.com logo? It?s going to get a bit shorter. Today at its Registry Days conference in Phoenix, Go Daddy CEO Blake Irving announced that the company is going to drop the .com ending from its logo.
<http://domainnamewire.com/2013/03/06/go-daddy-to-lose-the-com/>

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Iconic Aussie domains up for grabs
FANCY owning the web address for Sydney? Maybe you'd like to be the prime destination for auctions. Sydney.com.au and auction.com.au are for sale.
<http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/iconic-aussie-domains-up-for-grabs/story-e6frgakx-1226591435821>

Key Australian Capital City Domains Up For Sale
Domain names for four of Australia?s capital cities have gone been listed for sale. Sydney.com.au, melbourne.com.au, brisbane.com.au and adelaide.com.au have been listed for sale, as well as auction.com.au at www.namesell.com and are being brokered by Domain Guardians.
<http://www.domainpulse.com/2013/03/06/key-australian-domains-for-sale/>
<http://www.domainnews.com/en/key-australian-capital-city-domains-up-for-sale.html>

Key Australian internet assets to be sold
The most important parcel of Australian websites and domain names to come onto the market are being offered for sale. The websites sydney.com.au, melbourne.com.au, brisbane.com.au, adelaide.com.au and the domain name auction.com.au are for sale.
<http://namesell.com/press_release.html>

Capital city websites up for sale
Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide are for sale - not the cities themselves, just the .com.au websites.
<http://bigpondnews.com/articles/Finance/2013/03/06/Capital_city_websites_up_for_sale_852029.html>

au: Capital city websites up for sale
Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide are for sale ? not the cities themselves, just the .com.au websites.
<http://www.theage.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/capital-city-websites-up-for-sale-20130306-2fl05.html>
<http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/capital-city-websites-up-for-sale-20130306-2fl05.html>
<http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/capital-city-websites-up-for-sale-20130306-2fl05.html>

Three-Word Portuguese Term Produces Week's Biggest Domain Sale While a Canadian .CA Domain Fills the #2 Slot
This week's all extension Top 20 Domain Sales Chart has a distinctly international flavor with a pair of non English terms in .com and a half dozen ccTLDs filling slots on the leader board. The biggest sale of all was VagaDeEmprego.com, a three word Portuguese term ("vaga de emprego") that translates to "job vacancy" in English. Sedo rang up $78,600 for that domain, one of nine they placed on the elite list to lead all venues.
<http://dnjournal.com/archive/domainsales/2013/20130306.htm>

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uk: Schoolchildren 'losing the power to concentrate in class'
A generation of internet-obsessed schoolchildren is losing the ability to concentrate in lessons and make proper conversation with friends, according to a leading headmaster.
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/9905698/Schoolchildren-losing-the-power-to-concentrate-in-class.html>

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Pew: Twitter Not an Accurate Measure of Public Opinion [IDG]
Opinions expressed on Twitter differ from public opinion measured by surveys on key political events and policy issues, reflecting that users of the Internet service are demographically very different from the public, according to a study by Pew Research Center.
<http://www.cio.com/article/729711/Pew_Twitter_Not_an_Accurate_Measure_of_Public_Opinion>
<http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9237325/Pew_Twitter_not_an_accurate_measure_of_public_opinion>

The Demographics of Social Media Users ? 2012
Overview: A late 2012 survey by the Pew Research Center?s Internet & American Life Project shows that young adults are more likely than others to use major social media. At the same time, other groups are interested in different sites and services.
<http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2013/Social-media-users.aspx>

As User Interaction on Facebook Drops, Sharing Comes at a Cost
Early last year, soon after Facebook instituted a feature that let people subscribe to others? feeds without being friends, I quickly amassed a healthy ?subscriber? list of about 25,000 people.
<http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/03/disruptions-when-sharing-on-facebook-comes-at-a-cost/>

Even Google won't be around for ever, let alone Facebook
Some years ago, when the Google Books project, which aims to digitise all of the world's printed books, was getting under way, the two co-founders of Google were having a meeting with the librarian of one of the universities that had signed up for the plan. At one point in the conversation, the Google boys noticed that their collaborator had suddenly gone rather quiet. One of them asked him what was the matter. "Well", he replied, "I'm wondering what happens to all this stuff when Google no longer exists." Recounting the conversation to me later, he said: "I've never seen two young people looking so stunned: the idea that Google might not exist one day had never crossed their minds."
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/mar/03/google-facebook-nothing-lasts-for-ever>

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How Verizon found child pornography in its cloud
Cloud-based storage services are no doubt useful. They can back up your personal data and keep it from being lost if your system crashes. They can share your data across multiple computers. But cloud-based services are increasingly checking user-uploaded data for illegal content?particularly child pornography.
<http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/03/how-verizon-found-a-child-pornographer-in-its-cloud/>

ca: Justice committee kills cyberbullying bill
Liberal MP Hedy Fry is accusing NDP MP Dany Morin of politicking and reneging on his word for voting against her private member?s bill targeting cyberbullying at a meeting of the standing committee on justice and human rights.
<http://www.xtra.ca/public/National/Justice_committee_kills_cyberbullying_bill-13230.aspx>

au: Cyber bullying study finds links to young behaviour
Research has found West Australian teenagers developing problem behaviour, depression or low self esteem in their early high school years are more likely to engage or be the victims of cyber bullying by year 11.
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-03-06/problem-behaviour-linked-to-cyber-bulling/4556608>

nz: Scams, sexting talks
Cyberbullying, sexting, scams and security are a few of the topics that Marlborough people have the chance to learn about from the experts when Netsafe operations manager Lee Chisholm visits Blenheim in May.
<http://www.stuff.co.nz/marlborough-express/news/8368477/Scams-sexting-talks>

Saferinternet.at goes to kindergarten!
On Safer Internet Day (SID) 2013, Saferinternet.at, the Austrian Safer Internet Centre, launched the results of its new study 'Children and their use of online media' which revealed that 41 per cent of Austrian children aged between three and six years old are regular internet users. In conjunction with this, Saferinternet.at released three new resources for parents and educators of pre-school children.
<http://www.saferinternet.org/news-events/news-article?p_p_id=webcontentbrowser_WAR_eunbaseportlet_INSTANCE_w5qZ&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=normal&p_p_mode=view&p_p_col_id=column-2&p_p_col_count=1&_webcontentbrowser_WAR_eunbaseportlet_INSTANCE_w5qZ_action=view-detail&_webcontentbrowser_WAR_eunbaseportlet_INSTANCE_w5qZ_groupId=10137>

Forscher: Cybermobbing unter Jugendlichen wird ?bersch?tzt
Peinliche Bilder oder hasserf?llte Posts im Internet: Cybermobbing gilt als eine der gr??ten Gefahren f?r Jugendliche.
<http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Forscher-Cybermobbing-unter-Jugendlichen-wird-ueberschaetzt-1817550.html>

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Netflix vs. Amazon Could Be The Cool New Tech Rivalry
It feels like forever since we've had a good old-fashioned tech rivalry. The "I'm a Mac" commercials pitting cool Apple guy against dorky Microsoft man stopped airing in 2010.
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/05/netflix-vs-amazon_n_2811454.html>

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Apple and Samsung smartphone patent row set for new jury trial
The bitter battle between Apple and Samsung over smartphone patents that had seemed decided by a $1.05bn (?698m) award in the US courts last August is not quite over yet.
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/mar/04/apple-samsung-smartphone-patent-new-jury-trial>

Fon partners with Deutsche Telekom to 'blanket' Germany with Wi-Fi
German telecoms giant Deutsche Telekom has partnered with crowdsourced Wi-Fi network Fon to bring Germany the largest Wi-Fi network it has seen to date.
<http://www.zdnet.com/fon-partners-with-deutsche-telekom-to-blanket-germany-with-wi-fi-7000012086/>

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India Third Largest 'Spam Spewing Nation' in the World
India has ranked third on the list of the countries distributing spam across the world, after US and China, a new report has claimed.
<http://www.indiatimes.com/technology/internet/india-third-largest-spam-spewing-nation-in-the-world-64766.html>

India world's third largest 'spam spewing nation' [ANI]
India has been placed third on the list of the countries distributing spam across the world, a report has said.
<http://www.hindustantimes.com/technology/Chunk-HT-UI-Technology-OtherStories/India-world-s-third-largest-spam-spewing-nation/SP-Article1-1022052.aspx>

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Australia signs on to international cybercrime treaty [news release]
Australia has now formally joined 38 other nations as a party to the world?s first international treaty on crimes committed via the Internet.
<http://www.attorneygeneral.gov.au/Mediareleases/Pages/2013/First quarter/4March2013-Australiasignsontointernationalcybercrimetreaty.aspx>

us: Newspapers go all-in for copyright fight against clipping service
A copyright battle between The Associated Press and an online news-clipping service is reaching a climax, and the case could have significant implications for fair use. AP sued Meltwater Group last year, arguing the "reputation management" company had a "parasitic business model" that violated copyright. Meltwater is defending the case, arguing that it is merely a search engine.
<http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/03/newspapers-go-all-in-for-copyright-fight-against-clipping-service/>

Extortion scam accuses you of child porn
An internet scam convincing some computer users they are being investigated for terrorism and child pornography by the Australian Federal Police is continuing to extort money from Australians almost a month after its creators were busted in Spain.
<http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/technology/extortion-scam-accuses-you-of-child-porn/story-fn5h1vlf-1226591082100>

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Deutsche Telekom Unveils Real-time Map of Global Cyberattacks [IDG]
Deutsche Telekom launched a Web portal Wednesday that provides a real-time visualization of cyberattacks detected by its network of sensors placed around the world.
<http://www.cio.com/article/729829/Deutsche_Telekom_Unveils_Real_time_Map_of_Global_Cyberattacks>
<http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/030613-deutsche-telekom-unveils-real-time-map-267452.html>

Good cybersecurity means better privacy - opinion
The debate on cybersecurity has produced a sideshow centered around the belief that added security means a reduction in privacy. Such views are nonsense. Quite simply, digital privacy cannot exist without cybersecurity.
<http://money.cnn.com/2013/03/05/technology/security/cybersecurity-privacy/index.html>

Civil Society Hung Out To Dry in Global Cyber Espionage by Ron Deibert & Sarah McKune
Public attention to the secretive world of cyber espionage has risen to a new level in the wake of the APT1: Exposing One of China's Cyber Espionage Units report by security company Mandiant. By specifically naming China as the culprit and linking cyber espionage efforts to the People's Liberation Army, Mandiant has taken steps that few policymakers have been willing to take publicly, given the significant diplomatic implications.
<http://www.circleid.com/posts/20130304_civil_society_hung_out_to_dry_in_global_cyber_espionage/>

Security and Reliability: A Deeper Dive into Network Assessments by Brett Watson
As noted in the first part of this series, Security and Reliability encompasses holistic network assessments, vulnerability assessments, and penetration testing. In this post I'd like to go deeper into network assessments. I stated last time that the phrase "network assessment" is broad.
<http://www.circleid.com/posts/20130304_security_and_reliability_a_deeper_dive_into_network_assessments/>

Interpreting the second wave of cyber security threats to China
The U.S. has two times challenged China in the field of Internet governance. The first challenge came in the form of a speech delivered by former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Internet freedom following Google's withdrawal from the Chinese mainland. The second came earlier this month as a private security firm, Mandiant, released a report accusing the Chinese military of stealing U.S. intellectual property.
<http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/opinion/2013-03/04/content_16274933.htm>

Pentagon cyberdefenses weak, report warns
A new report for the Pentagon concludes that the nation?s military is unprepared for a full-scale cyber-conflict with a top-tier adversary and must ramp up its offensive prowess.
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/pentagon-cyberdefenses-weak-report-warns/2013/03/05/b0c8af5a-8504-11e2-999e-5f8e0410cb9d_story.html>

Google, Apple and Microsoft may be exempt from Obama?s cybersecurity order
Telecommunications companies want President Barack Obama?s administration to rethink a decision that may exempt Google Inc.?s Gmail, Apple Inc.?s iPhone software and Microsoft Corp.?s Windows from an executive order on cybersecurity.
<http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-05/google-exception-in-obama-s-cyber-order-questioned-as-unwise-gap.html>
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/google-exception-in-obamas-cyber-order-questioned-as-unwise-gap/2013/03/05/425a2430-8555-11e2-a80b-3edc779b676f_story.html>
<http://www.bloomberg.com/video/google-exception-in-obama-s-cyber-order-questioned-9myfBueCT6aDLYKpirDn7w.html>

Bank DDoS Attacks Resume
A number of U.S. banks are dealing with online service disruptions as hacktivists reportedly have launched another round of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against financial institutions.
<http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/bank-ddos-attacks-resume-030613>

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Google Glass: is it a threat to our privacy?
The tech giant's 'wearable computing' project is now being tested by volunteers, meaning you might already have been surreptitiously filmed and uploaded on to Google's servers. How worried should you be?
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/mar/06/google-glass-threat-to-our-privacy>

FBI Blocks Google's Latest Effort On Transparency
Google is trying to be up front about how it protects your privacy, but the FBI is in the way.
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/06/google-fbi_n_2818667.html>

Google For First Time Reports FBI Non-Warrant Requests for User Data
Google today revealed - if in vague terms - it last year received less than 1,000 "national Security letters" from federal authorities seeking financial and communications data on up to almost 2,000 individuals. The disclosure of such government requests marks a first for a major Internet service provider.
<http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/google-first-time-reports-fbi-non-warrant-requests-user-data-030513>

Web Privacy Becomes a Business Imperative
Privacy is no longer just a regulatory headache. Increasingly, Internet companies are pushing each other to prove to consumers that their data is safe and in their control.
<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/04/technology/amid-do-not-track-effort-web-companies-race-to-look-privacy-friendly.html>

Browsers Standing Up For User Privacy
Mozilla chief privacy officer Alex Fowler relayed a vivid anecdote last week during RSA Conference 2013 that illustrates the lengths third parties such as advertisers, data brokers and others who traffic in users? online behavior will go to track you once you land on a website.
<http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/browsers-standing-user-privacy-030413>

Google services should not require real names- Vint Cerf
In the face of increasing government-led crackdowns on social media, Google Inc should not force Internet users to reveal their real names for some services, including its Google+ social network, said Vint Cerf, a senior Google executive known as a "father of the Internet."
<http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/03/05/uk-google-names-idUKBRE9240HW20130305>
<http://in.reuters.com/article/2013/03/05/google-names-idINDEE92407Z20130305>

Web-connected cars bring privacy concerns
Cars will soon be so linked into wireless networks they will be like giant rolling smartphones ? with calling systems, streaming video, cameras and apps capable of harnessing the unprecedented trove of data vehicles will produce about themselves and the humans who drive them.
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/web-connected-cars-bring-privacy-concerns/2013/03/05/d935d990-80ea-11e2-a350-49866afab584_story.html>

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CENSORSHIP
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FBI data requests to Google outlined in report [IDG]
Some thousand-plus Google users have been subject to FBI security information requests since 2009, the company said Tuesday. The data build on Google's already existing tally of government data requests.
<http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9237356/FBI_data_requests_to_Google_outlined_in_report>

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GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC POLICY
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U.S. lawmakers want Internet freedom task force
New legislation in Congress would establish a government task force to monitor domestic and overseas policy proposals that could threaten Internet freedom.
<http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9237354/U.S._lawmakers_want_Internet_freedom_task_force>

Microsoft fined by European Commission over web browser
Microsoft has been fined ?561 million ($731m; ?484m) for failing to promote a range of web browsers, rather than just Internet Explorer program, to users in the European Union (EU).
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21684329>

E.U. Fines Microsoft $732 Million Over Browser
The European Commission on Wednesday fined Microsoft ?561 million for failing to live up to a settlement agreement offering consumers a choice of Internet browsers.
<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/07/technology/eu-fines-microsoft-over-browser.html>

Microsoft fined ?561m for 'browser choice' error
Microsoft has been fined ?561m by the European commission for failing to give users a choice of web browser when they logged into Windows computers in Europe between May 2011 and July 2012 ? breaking a binding commitment it had made in 2009.
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/mar/06/microsoft-fined-browser-error>

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MISCELLANEOUS
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Chasing the Distant Dream of a German Google
Boosted by its hip image and low rents, Berlin has gained a reputation as the epicenter of the European Internet start-up scene. There is no question that it is attracting young entrepreneurs and developers. But analysts and industry insiders doubt whether the German capital can produce truly global leaders.
<http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/analysis-of-berlin-internet-start-up-scene-a-886838.html>

Trademark bullying: legitimate problem or passing fad? [subscription]
Despite a lacklustre response to the US Department of Commerce report on trademark litigation, bullying is a real problem that disproportionately affects small businesses, and is something that the whole trademark community needs to address
<http://www.worldtrademarkreview.com/issues/article.ashx?g=6973e277-ca26-4277-ab45-8f7c6319b17c>

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