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Attacks against Australian military networks have risen sharply in the past year, averaging about 700 attacks per month.

India is developing a proprietary OS to help safeguard government systems from hacking.

Clearwire hopes to raise between $2.5 and $5 billion to use in expanding its LTE network by auctioning a portion of its spectrum (up to 40 MHz in each market).

Congressional staffers share their views on net neutrality and USF reform, among other topics.

Sort of.  Sam Churchill over at DailyWireless discusses the debut of Comcast’s Xfinity WiFi, which as of now consists of 2000 hotspots across Northern New Jersey.  The service is freely available to preexisting Comcast Internet subscribers – a user simply needs his or her account name and password to access a hotspot.  Comcast currently has no plans for expanding such service nationwide.

If you had trouble viewing the first two segments of UNL’s 2010 Space and Telecom Conference, you should be able to properly view them now:

• The initial keynote conversation between the great Bruce Schneier and the equally great Stewart Baker.
  • Link – Windows Media / Quicktime

• Panel on Cyber Policy featuring Scott Borg (US Cyber Consequences Unit), Jason Healey (Delta Risk LLC), and Marcus Sachs (Verizon), with Kim Hart of Politico moderating.
  • Link – Windows Media / Quicktime

For more information on the 2010 Conference, click here.

Valentia Pop at EUobserver discusses the “non-competition” between Estonia and France for the hosting of a new EU agency responsible for managing police databases.  Estonia claims it is well-suited for hosting the agency because, among other reasons, most day-to-day business of its citizens is conducted online.  Estonian officials stressed that they are seeking a negotiated solution to the selection quandary.

Philip Ewing at Military Times reports on the development of a career track for Cyber Marines, and possible incentives that would allow the armed forces to compete with  the private sector that tends to offer more lucrative positions.

Noah Shachtman writing over at Wired’s Danger Room briefly discusses the Pentagon’s guide to building and operating a trusted Global Information Grid.  To learn more about the chart that lays out all 193 documents that serve this purpose, click here.

Former FCC Chairman Michael Powell sums up his view of media ownership rules: “We are regulating on who you are and where you came from, not what you are doing [today].”