[APPLe list] general internet news - 1 June

[David Goldstein <goldstein_david@yahoo.com.au>]

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How Facebook Will Upend Advertising
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/may2009/tc20090527_635562.htm

Wikipedia referees Scientology debate
http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2009/05/wikipedia_refer.html

Newspaper future is digital: Rupert Murdoch [Dow Jones Newswires]
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/business/story/0,28124,25555007-7582,00.html

Bloodied by Google, Microsoft Tries Again on Search
http://nytimes.com/2009/05/29/technology/companies/29soft.html

Racism, hate, militancy sites proliferating via social networking
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/052909-hate-sites.html

Eastern Europe producing child porn
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25566528-5013404,00.html

Online child porn rings hard to track
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25566534-5013404,00.html

au: Child-porn offences not decreasing, says AFP [AAP]
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,25568872-5005962,00.html

au: UniSA research finds school bullying `out of control'
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,25566296-2682,00.html

Cost to British economy of free downloads is revealed
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/may/29/british-economy-free-downloads-cost

7m in UK 'use illegal downloads'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8073068.stm

The Misunderstandings of Ownership - Can You Copyright a Tweet (in the US)?
http://canyoucopyrightatweet.com/

ENISA issues three recommendations in reports on technologies to improve resilience of communication networks [news release]
http://enisa.europa.eu/pages/02_01_press_2009_05_28_resilience_report.html

Obama Outlines Coordinated Cyber-Security Plan
http://nytimes.com/2009/05/30/us/politics/30cyber.html

Contractors Vie for Plum Work, Hacking for the United States
http://nytimes.com/2009/05/31/us/31cyber.html

Pentagon Plans New Arm to Wage Cyberspace Wars
http://nytimes.com/2009/05/29/us/politics/29cyber.html

Obama's Public-Private Cybersecurity Challenge
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/may2009/tc20090529_293343.htm

Experts: Gumblar attack is alive, worse than Conficker
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10251779-83.html

Google’s Top Policy Executive to Join Obama Administration
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/29/googles-top-policy-exec-to-join-obama-administration/

AFP arrests 15 over web video showing rape of girl, 8
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25566557-601,00.html


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RESEARCH PAPERS
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Regulating Online Commercial Speech: Oh, What a Tangled Web by Robert Sprague & Mary Ellen Wells
Abstract: New forms of marketing, in which companies attempt to minimize or hide their involvement, coupled with new forms of communications media, create an environment in which commercial and noncommercial speech are intermingled, blurring their distinction. While it is clear that commercial speech is afforded only limited constitutional protection, the U.S. Supreme Court has never adequately defined what constitutes commercial speech. And courts appear to be expanding the scope of the commercial speech doctrine. Contemporaneously, the Federal Trade Commission is attempting to revise its regulations to incorporate the use of new technologies by marketers, potentially holding them liable for deceptive practices resulting from the buzz they create on the Internet. Yet, at the same time, existing federal law may provide marketers immunity for online content. After a discussion and analysis of these issues, this paper concludes that: new communications
 media are developing which blend commercial and noncommercial speech; Internet communications media present a new and complex platform for communications which current laws and regulations are having difficulty managing, and which may even be contradictory; and, most importantly, with an expansive view of what constitutes commercial speech, some noncommercial speech contained in these developing communications media will be unnecessarily restricted because of the lack of a precise judicial definition of commercial speech.
http://ssrn.com/abstract=1411692

Safeguarding freedom of expression remains the challenge
The title of the ministerial conference the Council of Europe held this week in Reykjavik – “A new notion of media?” - raises an important question: do new media or media-like services really exist? Are they really “new”?
http://www.neurope.eu/articles/94564.php

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INTERNET USE
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How Facebook Will Upend Advertising
With social networks like Facebook transforming the way companies communicate with consumers, it's time for the ad industry to get its head out of the sand
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/may2009/tc20090527_635562.htm

Wikipedia bans Church of Scientology from editing
Wikipedia has banned contributions from the Church of Scientology to end a long-running dispute over the editing of Scientology-related articles on the site.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/may/29/wikipedia-scientology

Wikipedia referees Scientology debate
On its surface, Wikipedia would seem to be the Wild West of the Web, a site where everyone is invited to write and edit articles about almost any topic. But every once in a while, a light shines on the army of volunteers and litany of bureaucratic policies actually needed to keep Wikipedia running, and the illusion of freedom is broken.
http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2009/05/wikipedia_refer.html

Wikipedia bans Church of Scientology
The Register Exclusive: In an unprecedented effort to crack down on self-serving edits, the Wikipedia supreme court has banned contributions from all IP addresses owned or operated by the Church of Scientology and its associates.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/29/wikipedia_bans_scientology/

On the Street and On Facebook: The Homeless Stay Wired
Like most San Franciscans, Charles Pitts is wired. Mr. Pitts, who is 37 years old, has accounts on Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. He runs an Internet forum on Yahoo, reads news online and keeps in touch with friends via email. The tough part is managing this digital lifestyle from his residence under a highway bridge.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124363359881267523.html

Newspaper future is digital: Rupert Murdoch [Dow Jones Newswires]
Rupert Murdoch predicts newspapers will evolve onto a mobile, electronic platform that updates every hour or two. The chairman of News Corporation, in an interview on the Fox Business Network, said a large-scale conversion to the new platform is about two to three years away and will win consumer acceptance in a 10- to 15-year time frame.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/business/story/0,28124,25555007-7582,00.html

Future of newspapers is digital: Murdoch
News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch has said that the future of newspapers is digital, but it may be ten to 15 years before readers go fully electronic.
http://business.theage.com.au/business/future-of-newspapers-is-digital-murdoch-20090529-bpbl.html

Microsoft and Google face off over innovation
Microsoft and Google on Thursday took direct aim at each other’s core businesses as they showed off ambitious new services that represent some of their biggest internet development efforts. While the services – a new search engine from Microsoft and a bid to replace traditional e-mail and instant messaging by Google – generally attracted positive reviews from technologists and analysts, several questioned whether they would do much to change the balance of power in the showdown between the world’s biggest software and internet companies.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9acf4ff2-4bc3-11de-b827-00144feabdc0.html

Microsoft's Request: Use Bing, Don't Google It
A year from now, if you hear someone say that — and actually understand what it means — Bill Gates will be a happy billionaire. That is because it will be a sign that Microsoft is finally making progress in its quest to challenge Google in the Internet search business.
http://nytimes.com/2009/05/29/technology/internet/29bing.html

Bloodied by Google, Microsoft Tries Again on Search
Microsoft has been bloodied and repeatedly humbled in its battle with Google in online search. That explains why Steven A. Ballmer, the typically bullish and boisterous chief executive of Microsoft, is speaking cautiously about his company’s latest volley against Google, a new version of its search engine that Mr. Ballmer demonstrated publicly for the first time at a technology conference on Thursday.
http://nytimes.com/2009/05/29/technology/companies/29soft.html

Q & A: Microsoft’s Ballmer Discusses New Search Service
This interview of Microsoft’s chief executive, Steven A. Ballmer, was conducted and condensed by Miguel Helft.
http://nytimes.com/2009/05/29/technology/companies/29ballmer.html

Microsoft gets into search – with a Bing
Described as a "decision engine", Bing is the latest attempt by the Seattle software giant to gain popularity in the search market and wrestle some momentum back from its Californian adversary.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/may/28/microsoft-search-bing-google

Microsoft Bing - the successful search to challenge Google?
The software giant Microsoft has announced that it is relaunching its internet search engine with a new name and a new look, in a bid to take on Google.
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article6380613.ece

Search war is on: Microsoft's Bing fires salvo at Google
After weeks of speculation and pre-release ballyhoo by bloggers and online commentators, Microsoft Corp. this morning took the wraps off its new search site, Bing.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9133624

Microsoft Bing: Much better than expected
Microsoft on Thursday took the wraps off Bing, the rebranded and rebuilt search engine formerly code-named Kumo, designed to replace Live Search. It's a solid improvement over the previous search product, and it beats Google in important areas. It will help Microsoft gain share in the search business. It's surprisingly competitive with Google.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10251432-2.html

Analysts: Microsoft Bing a good start, but no game changer
Microsoft's new search engine, Bing, will help the company gain some search share against Google and has features that users will find helpful, but it is in no way a quick fix for the company's poor position in the search market, analysts said.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9133640

Bing it on: Microsoft overhauls search
Microsoft has unveiled a new web search engine, Bing, designed to intuitively understand what people are seeking on the internet and challenge online king Google.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/technology/web/bing-it-on-microsoft-overhauls-search/2009/05/29/1243456718377.html

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SOCIAL NETWORKING
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Racism, hate, militancy sites proliferating via social networking
Rascism, hate, and militancy sites have tripled in number over the past year on the Web and within corners of social-networking sites like Facebook, YouTube, Google and Yahoo, according to one vendor tracking them.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/052909-hate-sites.html
http://computerworld.com.au/article/305119/
http://pcworld.idg.com.au/article/305119/

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NEW TECHNOLOGIES
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Greenpeace: IT companies weak on climate change
Having issued a middling report card to consumer electronics companies earlier this year, environmental watchdog Greenpeace is now targeting big IT companies which it says are not pulling their weight when it comes to tackling climate change.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10251163-54.html

Google Showcases New Communication and Collaboration Tool
Jens and Lars Rasmussen, the two brothers who created what would become Google Maps, have spent the last couple of years holed up in Google’s offices in Sydney, Australia, dreaming up a new tool for communicating over the Web. On Thursday, at a Google conference for developers in San Francisco, they showcased the fruits of their work: Google Wave.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/28/google-showcases-new-communication-and-collaboration-tool/

Look out Outlook, Google's Wave is coming to swamp you
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has put his reputation behind a project launched today by a team from Google Australia which seeks to overthrow email as the dominant mode of internet communication and replace it with a new hybrid.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2009/05/29/1243456712775.html
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2009/05/29/1243456712775.html

Google's Wave consolidates core online features into one tool [IDG]
Google released to developers an early version of a collaboration and communication tool that consolidates features from e-mail, instant messaging, blogging, wikis, multimedia management and document sharing.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9133620
http://computerworld.com.au/article/305013/
http://computerworld.com.au/article/304984/

Google Wave mashes communication, collaboration together
Google is looking to change the way we use the Internet to communicate with a new service that it calls Google Wave. Wave was previewed Thursday during the Google I/O conference as a way to combine e-mail, chat, photos, feeds from around the Web, and more in a collaborative environment. The project is not only cool-sounding, it's also quite ambitious, and Google hopes it will eventually replace some of our uses for e-mail.
http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/05/google-wave-mashes-communication-collaboration-together.ars

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CHILD PROTECTION, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION
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Eastern Europe producing child porn
Organised crime syndicates are driving a proliferation of online child pornography with Eastern Europe emerging as the main source of material.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25566528-5013404,00.html

Online child porn rings hard to track
Online pedophiles are forming relationships with one another in so-called grey chatrooms, before moving offline to communicate, making it harder for police to detect them.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25566534-5013404,00.html

Australia's pedophile jail terms 'too light'
Australia's child pornography laws have been shown to be lenient, with US members of an internet pedophile ring jailed for life while its Townsville-based co-founder launches an appeal against his non-parole sentence of 32 months.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25566530-5013404,00.html

au: Child-porn offences not decreasing, says AFP [AAP]
The AFP's head of high-tech crimes and child protection operations says the child-porn message "isn't getting out there" to Australian offenders.
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,25568872-5005962,00.html
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,25568903-5005941,00.html

German Anti-Child Pornography Law Flounders
Germany's family minister wants a law blocking Web sites that contain child pornography. But critics say the law could be used to censor just about anything -- and that it wouldn't be effective in the first place.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,627447,00.html

uk: Child porn goes uninvestigated amid cash crisis
Report warns hundreds of children will be at mercy of paedophiles if the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre continues to be mismanaged
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/child-porn-goes-uninvestigated-amid-cash-crisis-1693506.html

G8 wants tougher fight vs child porn [AFP]
Interior and justice ministers of the G8 countries called for more aggressive measures to fight the "heinous crime" of sexual exploitation of children. The ministers, wrapping up three days of talks near Rome, condemned all forms of exploitation including stopping and prosecuting "traveling sex offenders" and child pornography on the Internet.
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/topstories/topstories/view/20090531-208050/G8-wants-tougher-fight-vs-child-porn

EDITORIAL: Effective control of child porn in Japan
There seems little chance that a law that protects children under 18 years old against sexual exploitation will be revised during the current Diet session. Both the ruling and opposition camps should strive to reach a compromise to improve the control of child pornography, since both camps have agreed on the need for a stronger law.
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/ed20090601a1.html

Commerce's NTIA Announces June 4 Meeting of Online Child Safety Working Group [news release]
U.S. Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) today announced that the first meeting of its newly formed Online Safety and Technology Working Group will be held on June 4, 2009, in Washington, D.C. The meeting was originally scheduled for May 22, 2009. The Working Group was created to advise the federal government on industry efforts to keep children safe on the Internet.
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/press/2009/OSTWG_090519.html

Commerce's NTIA Announces Working Group to Advise on Industry Efforts to Promote a Safe Online Environment for Children
U.S. Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) today announced the Online Safety and Technology Working Group -- a working group dedicated to keeping children safe on the Internet. More than two dozen private sector and child and family advocacy leaders will help evaluate industry efforts to protect the privacy and safety of children and families online.
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/press/2009/OSTWG_090428.html

Schools Out for Summer: Kids Go Online by Stephen Balkam
School is nearly out and the long summer vacation beckons. Kids will soon have loads of time to hang out with their friends at the pool, the park and each other's houses. And they'll have plenty of time to hang out online. June is Internet Safety Month and it would be good to remind ourselves of all that's great about the web and what problems and concerns parents need to be aware of in our kids' quickly expanding online world.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stephen-balkam/schools-out-for-summer-ki_b_209279.html

au: UniSA research finds school bullying `out of control'
Bullying is spiralling out of control in schools, with one in four children from Year 4 to Year 9 claiming they are attacked regularly, a national survey has found.
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,25566296-2682,00.html

au: Bullying out of control in middle years of school
Bullying is out of control in schools as one in four children from Years 4 to 9 claim they are regularly attacked. The Courier-Mail can reveal that bullying peaks in the final years of primary school where 32 per cent of students are targeted.
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,20797,25565507-952,00.html
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,20797,25565507-3102,00.html
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,25566186-5001021,00.html

au: Victorian school bullying is out of control, national report says
Bullying is surging out of control in Victoria's schools. Almost one in four children in years 4-9 say they are regular targets of bullies. Bullying peaks in primary school, in year 5, but continues well into high school, according to Australia's largest study of the problem.
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25566087-2862,00.html

us: Seminars to Warn of 'Sexting' and Other Internet Risks [news release]
"Sexting," the controversial practice of sending sexually explicit messages or photos over cell phones, is one of the key topics that will be addressed at a Verizon-sponsored Internet safety summit here next week.
http://newscenter.verizon.com/press-releases/verizon/2009/seminars-to-warn-of-sexting.html

us: Teen sexting is on the rise
A silly slumber party photo prompted child pornography charges against two Pennsylvania teens who posed in their undies. A mildly risque image landed six Massachusetts middle schoolers in court, facing felony child pornography charges. And 20 percent of the nation's teens and tweens may face those charges next.
http://www.insidebayarea.com/trivalleyherald/localnews/ci_12472908

KidZui- Browser for Kids on the Internet
KidZui is quite a novel spin on an old concept. It is basically a browser that advises rather than restricts your kid's movements. Full-scale and much more mature products such as Net Nanny, Safe Eyes and the like give complete control over what is run in the PC, subject to parent-imposed restrictions. However, KidZui isn't aiming at that kind of child security but rather plays a supportive, guiding role as a kid-friendly browser.
http://www.techtree.com/India/Reviews/KidZui-_A_Browser_for_Kids_on_the_Internet/551-102549-597.html

ph: Race against Internet porno
Nearly two thousand people braved the rainshowers early Sunday morning in a marathon around Fort Bonifacio Global City to press the fight against Internet pornography victimizing primarily children.
http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=police1_june1_2009

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ONLINE TV & MUSIC
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Cost to British economy of free downloads is revealed
At least 7 million people in Britain use illegal downloads, costing the economy billions of pounds and thousands of jobs, according to a report.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/may/29/british-economy-free-downloads-cost

7m in UK 'use illegal downloads'
Around seven million people in the UK are involved in illegal downloads, costing the economy tens of billions of pounds, government advisors say. Researchers found 1.3m people using one file-sharing network on one weekday and estimated that over a year they had free access to material worth £120bn.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8073068.stm

Special IP Watch Report: The Future Of File Sharing
Digital content owners continue to emphasise enforcement and protection of intellectual property. However, the impact that litigation and legislation have had with the purpose of limiting illegal file sharing remains questionable, thus setting the stage for new economic models and approaches that could serve as a remedy.
http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2009/05/28/the-future-of-file-sharing/

Digital music sales
Over one-fifth of the music industry’s worldwide revenues in 2008 came from sales of digital music, according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, a trade body.
http://www.economist.com/markets/indicators/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13745790

BBC and Google in talks to launch international iPlayer site
Internet users may soon be able to watch full-length BBC television shows on a global version of its iPlayer catch-up TV service.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/digital-media/5406851/BBC-and-Google-in-talks-to-launch-international-iPlayer-site.html

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MOBILE/WIRELESS
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Why Android Could Be Headed for the Laundry Room
After a slow start, Google says its Android operating system will appear in as many as 20 cellphones by the end of this year. It is also destined over the next few years to become a major player in all sorts of other smart devices, including digital washing machines. That has been the clear view of several top executives I’ve talked to recently who are making chips for all manner of electronics.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/28/why-android-could-be-headed-for-the-laundry-room/

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SPAM
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Hong Kong Gets the Most Spam
Hong Kong has become the most spammed country in the world, according to security vendor MessageLabs. The May 2009 MessageLabs Intelligence Report noted that spam levels in Hong Kong rose by 2.4 per cent in May to 92.3 per cent, positioning it as the most spammed country. In comparison, the global ratio of spam in e-mail traffic for May was 90.4 per cent (1 in 1.11 e-mails). For the rest of the Asia Pacific, China took second place with 91.1 per cent and Malaysia was third with 89 per cent.
http://www.mis-asia.com/news/articles/spammed-hong-kong
http://www.pcworld.com/article/165693/.html

Report: spam-wielding botnets are working 9 to 5
Botnets that send out spam seem to like workin' 9 to 5 and resting on Sundays, according to the latest report out of Symantec's MessageLabs. Spam levels are up this month, too, taking the total percentage of spam over the 90 percent mark. Hope you have a good junk filter!
http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/05/report-spam-wielding-botnets-apparently-like-us-work-hours.ars

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ONLINE CRIME, SECURITY & LEGAL
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The Misunderstandings of Ownership - Can You Copyright a Tweet (in the US)?
I’m all for people being passionate about what they believe. That’s true even if I disagree. But, there’s a point where you have to ask yourself if you have the proper basis for your belief. Our systems of thought all flow from somewhere, but we really should step back and evaluate the basis of our passion a bit more objectively.
http://canyoucopyrightatweet.com/

Craigslist chief Jim Buckmaster: we're the victim of a witch-hunt
Classified advertising website Craigslist has been the victim of a "witch-hunt" by self-interested politicians and the hypocritical media, according to the man in charge of the company.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/may/28/craigslist-jim-buckmaster-adult-ads

Another Hot Issue: Intellectual Property
While politicians debate Judge Sonia Sotomayor's views on issues from affirmative action to abortion, she also would bring to the Supreme Court an expertise in intellectual-property law, an area the high court has played a growing role in shaping in recent years.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124355939097064981.html

American Idol cyber-stalker Tanya Maree Quattrocchi sent to jail in Australia
A Melbourne woman who cyber-stalked an American Idol contestant will spend the next year in jail. Tanya Maree Quattrocchi, 23, hacked into the MySpace account of 2004 runner-up Diana Degarmo and wreaked havoc on the pop singer's life for three years, intercepting her emails and texting her hundreds of times.
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25555343-661,00.html

American Idol 'cyber-stalker' jailed in Australia [AFP]
An Australian woman who cyber-stalked an American Idol contestant was jailed for 26 months.
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-technology/american-idol-cyberstalker-jailed-in-australia-20090529-bpss.html
http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-technology/american-idol-cyberstalker-jailed-in-australia-20090529-bpss.html

au: Banks alert customers on cyber scam
Major banks are scrambling to alert customers whose credit card details were posted on the internet in a scam that claimed several of their own employees among the victims.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25566524-5013404,00.html

Japanese ban on Internet drug sales blasted
Kazuyuki Sasada has been using the Internet for years to buy medicine because it is difficult for him to go around to different stores to get the drugs he needs.
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20090601a2.html

ENISA issues three recommendations in reports on technologies to improve resilience of communication networks [news release]
The European Network and Information Security Agency [ENISA] launches two reports with three recommendations on emerging, new technologies and their potential to improve the resilience of communication networks. Technologies have been developed with properties that improve both the resilience and security of the Internet. Experience is missing in the area of commercial operation of these features, as well as operational best practices and recommendations in applied network resilience.
http://enisa.europa.eu/pages/02_01_press_2009_05_28_resilience_report.html

EU security agency warns on European network resilience
The EU's information security agency has warned of failings in the development of key technologies that are considered vital to the resilience of government and industry networks across Europe.
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/NewsStory.aspx?story=104494

ITU calls for global cybersecurity measures
The International Telecommunication Union ITU has published its proposals for harmonising global cybersecurity legislation on the periphery of a conference on the information society in Geneva. At a discussion session, ITU General Secretary Hamadoun Touré stated that the document, advertised as a "Cybersecurity Toolkit" is "no Bible and no Koran", instead offering a list of best practices from existing legislation.
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/138369

Obama Outlines Coordinated Cyber-Security Plan
President Obama declared Friday that the country’s disparate efforts to “deter, prevent, detect and defend” against cyberattacks would now be run out of the White House, but he also promised that he would bar the federal government from regular monitoring of “private-sector networks” and the Internet traffic that has become the backbone of American communications.
http://nytimes.com/2009/05/30/us/politics/30cyber.html

Contractors Vie for Plum Work, Hacking for the United States
The government’s urgent push into cyberwarfare has set off a rush among the biggest military companies for billions of dollars in new defense contracts.
http://nytimes.com/2009/05/31/us/31cyber.html

Pentagon Plans New Arm to Wage Cyberspace Wars
The Pentagon plans to create a new military command for cyberspace, administration officials said Thursday, stepping up preparations by the armed forces to conduct both offensive and defensive computer warfare.
http://nytimes.com/2009/05/29/us/politics/29cyber.html

Remarks by The President on securing our nation's cyber infrastructure
THE PRESIDENT: Everybody, please be seated. We meet today at a transformational moment -- a moment in history when our interconnected world presents us, at once, with great promise but also great peril.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-on-Securing-Our-Nations-Cyber-Infrastructure/

Fending Off Attacks in Cyberspace
President Barack Obama announced on Friday his plan to appoint a new cybersecurity official to coordinate federal efforts to defend vital government and private computer systems from the onslaught of cyberattacks by computer hackers.
http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/29/a-plan-of-attack-in-cyberspace/

Obama Says He Will Name National Cybersecurity Adviser
President Obama used a White House speech yesterday to try to raise national concern about threats to computer networks, drawing praise from some industry executives and lawmakers but criticism from others who said his initiatives do not go far enough.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/29/AR2009052900350.html

Obama's Public-Private Cybersecurity Challenge
Urging Uncle Sam to work with the private sector on information security is smart in theory, but it has proved difficult in practice
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/may2009/tc20090529_293343.htm

Obama to appoint 'cybersecurity' chief
President Obama has unveiled sweeping new plans to guard vital US computer networks and data from online attack, announcing a new post of "cyber-tsar" and a strategy for dealing with what he called "weapons of mass disruption".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/may/29/obama-cybersecurity

Obama to appoint cyber-security advisor
Calling protection of government and private computer and communications networks "one of the most serious . . . security challenges we face," President Obama on Friday said he would appoint a White House advisor to oversee a national effort to improve cyber-security throughout the U.S.
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-na-cybersecurity30-2009may30,0,6883780.story

Obama raises stakes for cybersecurity
America's economic prosperity in the 21st century will depend on effective cybersecurity, President Obama said Friday as he announced a new comprehensive approach to the issue and promised to appoint a White House cybersecurity czar.
http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20090529_1893.php

Obama's open government initiative thin on collaboration, critics say
As the White House transitions into the second phase of its open government initiative, participants in the first phase said the project has yet to demonstrate a willingness to collaborate between federal officials and the public.
http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20090529_2525.php

Obama Moves to Curb Data-System Attacks
President Barack Obama said Friday the nation's digital infrastructure is under near constant attack and confirmed he will create a White House office for cybersecurity, but offered few details of his strategy to counter threats to U.S. data systems.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124362745408767285.html

Obama Releases Cybersecurity Report: ‘Much Work to Be Done’
President Barack Obama said Friday that cybersecurity is critically important and an area that the U.S. isn’t “as prepared as we should be,” though he added that he remains committed to net neutrality and personal privacy for Americans.
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/05/29/obama-releases-cybersecurity-report-much-work-to-be-done/

Security Experts React to Obama’s Cybersecurity Report
As security experts digested the details of the White House’s cybersecurity report Friday, they applauded the president’s acknowledgement that cyber-attacks threaten national security. But some said the report lacked details, and questions swirled around the effectiveness of a “cybersecurity coordinator.”
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/05/29/security-experts-react-to-obamas-cybersecurity-report/

Obama's cybersecurity plan gets cautious praise
President Obama's plan for securing cyberspace and his creation of a new White House cybersecurity coordinator are being greeted with cautious optimism within the security industry.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9133687
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/scrt/F3E3EE19DAE1555CCC2575C5007F8259
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/052909-obamas-cybersecurity-plan-gets-cautious.html

Obama Puts Cybersecurity Front And Center As An Economic, Public Safety, And National Security Concern
President Barack Obama today officially announced his plans for a more aggressive policy for cybersecurity -- one that starts with a new White House post charged with coordinating policies and initiatives for securing the nation's digital infrastructure.
http://www.darkreading.com/security/government/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=217700876

Pentagon Plans New Arm to Wage Wars in Cyberspace
The Pentagon plans to create a new military command for cyberspace, administration officials said Thursday, stepping up preparations by the armed forces to conduct both offensive and defensive computer warfare.
http://nytimes.com/2009/05/29/us/politics/29cyber.html

EU security agency warns on European network resilience
The EU's information security agency has warned of failings in the development of key technologies that are considered vital to the resilience of government and industry networks across Europe.
http://www.computing.co.uk/computing/news/2243128/eu-network-guru-warns-european

Experts: Gumblar attack is alive, worse than Conficker
The Web site compromise attack known as Gumblar has added new domain names that are downloading malware onto unsuspecting computers, stealing FTP credentials to compromise more sites, and tampering with Web traffic, a security firm said on Thursday.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10251779-83.html
http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/security/0,39044215,62054455,00.htm

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US gov't panel calls for new privacy rules [IDG]
The U.S. government needs to rewrite the rules it has been using for 35 years to govern its use of personal data by focusing on new technologies for storing and retrieving data, a government advisory board recommended.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/052809-us-govt-panel-calls-for.html

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China to crack down on Internet bars: state media [AFP]
China will launch a four-month crackdown on unapproved Internet cafes, state media said Thursday, signalling heightened vigilance ahead of two politically sensitive anniversaries.
http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-technology/china-to-crack-down-on-internet-bars-state-media-20090529-bp4h.html
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-technology/china-to-crack-down-on-internet-bars-state-media-20090529-bp4h.html

Rudd Government blacklist hacker monitors police
An Australian activist whose internet site is under federal police investigation for publishing the Rudd Government's secret blacklist of banned websites has warned police that their investigation could be illegal and leave them open to prosecution.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,25559060-2702,00.html

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GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC POLICY
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EU to study how Google impacts authors
The European Union's executive body will study plans by Google to make millions of books available online after Germany said the Internet company's project flouts EU copyright law.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUKTRE54R63D20090528

EU to Investigate Google Books' Copyright Policies [IDG]
Government ministers from the European Union's member countries are meeting Thursday and expected to call for an investigation into the way Google Books handles copyright.Google Books carries extracts of books protected by copyright, as well as complete works whose copyright has expired. Authors and publishers have to opt out of the service to get their titles removed.The German government suspects that this business model is illegal in Europe. It will propose that the European Commission, the E.U.'s executive body, open an inquiry to see if Google Books conforms with Europe's copyright laws."Google Books raises concerns in some member states," said a Czech diplomatic source who requested anonymity. The Czech Republic currently occupies the E.U.'s six-month rotating presidency.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/165697/.html
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9133609
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/052809-google-books-copyright-policy-may.html

Google’s Top Policy Executive to Join Obama Administration
Andrew McLaughlin, Google’s head of global public policy, is leaving the company to join the Obama administration, according to two people with knowledge of Mr. McLaughlin’s plans.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/29/googles-top-policy-exec-to-join-obama-administration/

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TELECOMMUNICATIONS
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AOL and Time Warner Will Part Ways
Time Warner said on Thursday that it would file for divorce in one of the most ill-fated marriages in the history of the media and technology business, its 2001 merger with AOL. The companies hope the separation is complete at the end of the year.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/28/splitsville-for-aol-and-time-warner/

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ARRESTS/COURT CASES FOR CHILD PORN
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AFP arrests 15 over web video showing rape of girl, 8
Australian Federal Police have arrested 15 men who, as part of a global pornography network, downloaded a single movie showing the rape of an eight-year-old Russian girl.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25566557-601,00.html

15 charged over child rape video
Fifteen Australian men have been arrested and charged in connection to an internet video showing the rape of an eight-year-old girl.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/06/01/2585929.htm

16 charged over child rape video
Sixteen Australian men have been arrested in connection to an internet video showing the rape of an eight-year-old girl.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/06/01/0000001.htm

Aussies arrested for downloading child rape movie [AAP]
Fifteen Australian members of a global pornography network have been arrested after downloading a movie showing the rape of an eight-year-old Russian girl.
http://www.smh.com.au/national/aussies-arrested-for-downloading-child-rape-movie-20090601-brv9.html
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25567270-662,00.html

Melbourne private school rocked by second child porn arrest
ONE of Victoria's leading private schools has again been rocked by a child pornography scandal, with a second teacher arrested. He has been accused of photographing bound and gagged young boys.
http://www.theage.com.au/national/private-school-rocked-by-second-child-porn-arrest-20090528-bozw.html


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