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September 30, 2016

Time To Talk Digital Issues At WTO With Focus On Developing Countries, Forum Hears

https://www.ip-watch.org/2016/09/30/time-to-talk-digital-issues-at-wto-w...

. . . dealt with by internet governance organisations such as ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the UN-backed Internet Governance Forum, Internet Engineering Task Force, and the Messaging Anti Abuse Working Group.

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September 26, 2016

Exploring Cybersecurity Topics on a Whirlwind Tour of Eastern Europe

https://www.icann.org/news/blog/exploring-cybersecurity-topics-on-a-whir...

 ". . . I plan to take advantage of the opportunity to network with first responders, law enforcement and cybercrime forensic professionals from Europe and Eastern Europe. APWG and similar conferences (e.g., Messaging, Malware and Mobile Anti–Abuse Working Group – M3AAWG) are venues where the IS SSR team is most successful in building trust relationships and promoting participation in ICANN's multistakeholder community."

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September 22, 2016

News from Identifier Technology Health Indicators (ITHI)

https://www.icann.org/news/blog/news-from-identifier-technology-health-i...

. . ."First, ICANN will organize another ITHI workshop at the M3AAWG meeting in October in Paris."

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June 08, 2016

EXPERTS TO FCC: CHANGE COURSE ON BROADBAND PRIVACY RULES INDUSTRY GROUPS AND EXPERTS AGREE: THE FCC MUST CHANGE COURSE ON BROADBAND PRIVACY

Fixed Wireless Internet Service Providers Association 

http://www.wispa.org/News/wispa_news_06-08-16_Experts_to_FCC

"A coalition of industry groups including WISPA, CTA, CTIA, and US Telecom today published a joint article in opposition to the FCC’s proposed new rules for broadband privacy protection . . . The Messaging, Malware and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group similarly warned that the rules as currently framed could inadvertently undermine cooperation and communication needed to secure the web from malware, viruses and hackers online. . . "

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July 16, 2014

United States Senate Special Committee on Aging “Hanging Up on Phone Scams: Progress and Potential Solutions to this Scourge"

A representative of the United States Telecom Association (USTelecom) discusses the global anti-abuse nature of the work being done at the M3AAWG Voice and Telephony SIG in his Senate testimony. 

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June 26, 2014

CRTC Chairman Comments on M3AAWG VTA Workshops

Canada's CRTC Chairman Jean-Pierre Blais noted the work his agency is doing together with M3AAWG to address voice and telephony abuse in a June 26 speech to the Economic Club of Canada.

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October 10, 2013

The EastWest Institute Awards 2013 Cybersecurity Award to M3AAWG Highlighting Its Key Role in Fighting Spam

Award recognizes M3AAWG outreach efforts, including work with China and India

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June 04, 2012

An All-Star Panel on Cybersecurity (Big Think)

M3AAWG Co-Chairman Chris Roosenraad comments on the state of U.S. cybersecurity in an article by Ali Wyne, a researcher at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

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June 04, 2012

How to Get Grandma to Secure Her Laptop (MIT Technology Review)

"Botnets today are where spam was in 2004," says M3AAWG Co-Chairman Michael O'Reirdan in this MIT Technology Review article.

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December 19, 2011

SOPA Hearing Delayed, Likely Until Early Next Year (PC World)

MAAWG commented: "The filtering technologies outlined in these bills also would significantly impact the currently reliable messaging processes that are depended on worldwide and would require drastic architectural changes to existing network operations."

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December 04, 2011

Botnets: Hi-tech crime in the UK (BBC News)

"There's a great desire among large ISPs to tackle botnets," said Michael O'Reirdan, chair of Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG) . . .

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November 21, 2010

We're All Sheriffs in the Land of the Walking Dead: The Botnet Fight (Messaging News)

by MAAWG Chairman Michael O'Reirdan

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October 28, 2010

Cyberthreats in Wireless, Now Small, Seen as Soon Rivaling Those Against PCs (Washington Internet Daily)

by Louis Trager on presentation by Alex Bobotek, MAAWG Vice Co-Chairman

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July 17, 2009

Spam: Not that Innocent Any More (Newsmaker of the Week)

With one in six consumers admitting they click on spam, Michael O’Reirdan, chairman of the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG) explains why consumers should consider spam as more than just a nuisance and prevent their computers from becoming bots.

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