| News Briefs NYT: Atomic Bomb Changed Warfare 64 Years Ago, International Race Has Begun to Develop Cyberweapons Apr 28, 2009 - Include Your Comments UK Government Rules Out Content Monitoring But Will Track Who, When, Where and How of Communications Apr 27, 2009 - Include Your Comments The Economist: American Cablecos Don't Want Customers to Cancel Contracts and Watch TV over Internet Apr 26, 2009 - Include Your Comments Hackers Stole Info on $300B Fighter Jet Program, US Defense Secretary Responds on 60 Minutes Apr 23, 2009 (Updated: Apr 23, 2009) - Include Your Comments John Chambers: Cloud Computing "A Security Nightmare" Apr 23, 2009 - Include Your Comments Rustock, Xarvester Spambots Capable of Sending 25,000 Messages Per Hour, Says New Study Apr 22, 2009 - Include Your Comments Implications of California Telecom Attack Gone Un-Reported Apr 22, 2009 - Include Your Comments Unconfirmed Reports Suggest Top Brazilian Bank Hit With Cache-Poisoning Attack Apr 22, 2009 (Updated: Apr 23, 2009) - Include Your Comments US Defense Secretary to Announce Creation of New Military 'Cyber Command' Apr 22, 2009 - Include Your Comments Broad Reform of EU Telecoms Law Facing Obstacles In Dealing with Internet Piracy Apr 22, 2009 - Include Your Comments Featured Blogs In Support of ICANN's New Trademark Protection Rules (Mostly) Yesterday, I sent ICANN my comments about the draft recommendations from ICANN’s Implementation Recommendation Team (IRT), which has been tasked with coming up with a trademark protection scheme for new top-level domains. For the most part, I think they did an excellent job... more » Apr 28, 2009 - by Antony Van Couvering - Comments: 0 Related Topics: Cybersquatting, Domain Names, Domain Registries, Internet Governance, Law, Top-Level Domains ICANN IRT Report Open for Comment With Short Timeframe? The Intellectual Property Constituency's draft report on trademark issues is now available for comment. The draft report was put together behind closed doors, which would appear to go against the normal policy development process at ICANN, which is quite worrying. Its contents, however, are even more disturbing... more » Apr 26, 2009 - by Michele Neylon - Comments: 0 Related Topics: Domain Names, Domain Registries, Internet Governance, Law, Policy & Regulation, Privacy, Top-Level Domains, Whois Domain Name Registries Must Do More to Protect Highly-Trafficked Domains With the recent attacks against high-profile New Zealand domain names including Coca-Cola.co.nz and F-Secure.co.nz, fingers are naturally pointing to Domainz, the registrar of record for these domains, as the party responsible for this lapse in security. While domain name registrars certainly need to ensure the security and stability of their systems, domain name registries must also step up and take responsibility for mitigating risks posed by hackers... more » Apr 24, 2009 - by Elisa Cooper - Comments: 5 Related Topics: Cyberattack, Cybercrime, Cybersquatting, DNS, Domain Names, Domain Registries, Security, Top-Level Domains Commerce Department: Headed Toward ICANN 3.0? The NTIA has published a Notice of Inquiry, Assessment of the Transition of the Technical Coordination and Management of the Internet's Domain Name and Addressing System, in advance of the expiration of the Joint Project Agreement in September 2009. The document outlines the history and evolution of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Department of Commerce (DoC) and ICANN, and the questions posed cover fairly standard territory. However, the following might be worth paying attention to... more » Apr 24, 2009 - by Brenden Kuerbis - Comments: 0 Related Topics: DNS, Internet Governance Global DNS SSR Recap This past February, around 100 DNS industry experts met in Atlanta, GA for the "The Global DNS Security, Stability, & Resiliency Symposium." Organized by ICANN and hosted by Georgia Tech, this event was to strengthen personal relationships between operators and review what we know about the DNS infrastructure... The content included three breakout groups over two days: Enterprise Use of DNS, DNS in Resource Constrained Environments, and Combating Malicious Use of DNS... more » Apr 22, 2009 - by Jeremy Hitchcock - Comments: 0 Related Topics: DNS, Security A Few More Thoughts on Email Authentication… errr… Trust Mike Hammer's thoughtful article, A Few Thoughts on the Future of Email Authentication, should trigger thoughtfulness in the rest of us. Email abuse has been around a long time. Anti-abuse efforts have too. Yet global abuse traffic has grown into the 90+% range, with no hint of trending downward. The best we hear about current effectiveness is for last-hop filtering, if you have the money, staff and skills to apply to the problem... more » Apr 22, 2009 - by Dave Crocker - Comments: 0 Related Topics: Cybercrime, DNS, Domain Names, Malware, Security, Spam ICA to ICANN: The IRT Must Open Up Or Be Stripped of Official Status and Support On April 21st the Internet Commerce Association submitted a formal request to Mr. Frank Fowlie, ICANN Ombudsman, requesting an immediate investigation of the non-compliance of the Implementation Recommendation Team (IRT) with applicable provisions of ICANN's Bylaws. The IRT was created by a March Resolution adopted by the ICANN Board during its Mexico City meeting, and was charged with proposing "solutions" to the concerns of trademark holders. Unfortunately, the IRT has chosen to operate in a non-transparent manner... more » Apr 22, 2009 - by Philip S Corwin - Comments: 3 Related Topics: Domain Names, Domain Registries, Internet Governance, Policy & Regulation, Top-Level Domains | Hot Topics • Security • Domain Names • Cybercrime • Cyberattack • Internet Governance • Top-Level Domains • Policy & Regulation • more... 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