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• IIA releases draft eSecurity for ISPs

  The Internet Industry Association (IIA) has released a draft eSecurity code to help internet service providers (ISPs) to improve security for their customers.

• ISP appeals verdict that temporarily closed Pirate Bay

  Swedish ISP Black Internet has decided to appeal in the Stockholm district court the verdict that led to it closing file-sharing site The Pirate Bay's data connection.

• Internode appoints COO to drive business transformation

  National ISP Internode has appointed its first chief operating officer to manage its customer service, sales, media and product management business units.

• Telstra Internet outage points to DNS failure

  This week's fault that knocked out Internet access for thousands of Telstra BigPond customers was most likely related to the ISPs domain name system (DNS), according to people affected by the outage.

• ISPs need more oversight and regulation

  The Internet service provider industry is a rats and mice business that needs greater regulation and oversight said Alastair MacGibbon, former director of trust and safety at eBay, and prior to that, the former director of the High Tech Crime Centre.

• More doubts surface over enforceability of ACMA's blacklist

  With the leaking of the supposed Australian Communication & Media Authority's (ACMA) URL “blacklist”, further doubts have been raised over whether such a list, and even Web Filtering itself, can successfully achieve the federal government's goal of protecting Australians from undesirable content like child pornography.

• Court halts Internet lending practices

  A U.S. District Court has ordered seven Internet-based lending operations to halt some of their practices after the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the state of Nevada complained that the companies failed to disclose key loan terms and used abusive collection tactics.

• Google unveils tools to show how your ISP deals with traffic

  Want to know if you're actually getting what you're paying your ISP for?

• Large ISPs endorse customer opt-in for Web tracking

  Three of the four largest ISPs (Internet service providers) in the US said Thursday that they will adopt policies that require them to get meaningful permission from customers before tracking online activities.