Russian information security forum to open in Moscow

MOSCOW (Itar-Tass) - The Russian information security
forum Infoforum-2011 will open the 10th anniversary session here on
Monday. Trust and security in the information society will be high on the
agenda of the forum, the organizers said.
"At the Infoforum-2011 forum officials from the federal authorities
and representatives of leading Russian and international companies will
discuss topical issues for the development of information security and
information technologies industries in Russia," a source in the forum
organizing committee said.
High on the agenda of the forum is the electronic voting security
system, the problems of trust in electronic trade and electronic
government and modern approaches to the security from cybercrime and
Internet fraud.
Infoforum-2011 will also focus on innovation technologies for regional
and municipal management, particularly on the safe city program.
Alongside, the participants in the forum will discuss the information
security problems in such a promising trend as cloud computing (it is
location-independent computing, whereby shared servers provide resources,
software, and data to computers and other devices on demand).
"One can familiarize with technical solutions at the exposition," the
organizing committee said.
More than 300 specialists from Russian regions, other CIS and European
countries are expected to participate in the forum. Such world famous IT
companies as Microsoft and Oracle will take part in the forum.
According to the tradition Infoforum-2011 will present the Silver
Knife prize in information security and the winners of the Infoforum - new
generation contest, in which students and young scientists will
participate.
The second united forum on safe Internet will be devoted to the
problems of children in the Internet on Tuesday, the International Safe
Internet Day. "The forum will focus on the self-regulation of the Internet
industry, the psychological comfort in the Internet, new educational
technologies and the development of the positive content oriented at the
children's audience," the organizing committee said.
The State Duma Security Committee, the staff of the Russian Security
Council, the Ministry of Telecommunications and Mass Communications, the
Interior Ministry and the Infoforum non-profit partnership organized the
Infoforum-2011 information security forum.

.30 N Koreans on fishing trawler transgress border in Yellow Sea.

SEOUL, February 7 (Itar-Tass) -- A major group of North Korean crewmen
onboard a small fishing schooner transgressed the inter-Korean maritime
border in the Yellow Sea and reached the South Korean island of
Yeonpyeong, a South Korean unnamed governmental source said here on
Monday. All these North Korean citizens are believed to be defectors, he
noted.
South Korean border guards have found 11 men and 20 women onboard the
fishing vessel. All of them were towed to the Inchon port onboard the same
trawler. "South Korean servicemen and counterintelligence officers are
interrogating them, how they succeeded to cross the maritime border," the
source pointed out. All of them are relatives and work together, he said.
Since the end of the Korean War over 20,000 North Korean citizens managed
to flee to South Korea directly or through third countries, the Yonhap
news agency reported.
The current escape was made in a sharply deteriorated situation on the
Korean Peninsula. In November 2010 the North Korean coastal artillery
shelled the Yeonpyeong Island killing two South Korean marines and two
civilians.

.Cambodia-flagged poaching ship detained in Tatar Strait.

VLADIVOSTOK, February 7 (Itar-Tass) -- Russian border guards detained
the Cambodia-flagged fishing vessel FOG in the Tatar Strait in the north
of the Sea of Japan (the East Sea).
More than 7,500 tonnes of poached Kamchatka crabs were found onboard
the poaching vessel, as the captain did not have a fishing license, the
public relations group of the Sakhalin border department of the Russian
Coast Guard reported on Monday.
The FOG trawler was detained on February 3, on the same day poached
crabs were released back in the sea. The trawler crewmen are Russian
citizens. An administrative case was instituted against the captain for
poaching of the water biological resources.

.OSCE chief to discuss OSCE activities in Ukraine, Moldova.

VILNIUS, February 7 (Itar-Tass) -- OSCE Chairman-in-Office and
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Azubalis will go on a tour of
Ukraine and Moldova on Monday to discuss the prospects of the activities
of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the
ways to settle the protracted conflicts in the OSCE control zone, the
press service of the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry reported.
High on the agenda of the negotiations in Kiev will be the
preparations for Ukraine's OSCE presidency in 2013 and the OSCE activities
in Ukraine. Azubalis will meet with Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich,
Prime Minister Nikolai Azarov, Foreign Minister Konstantin Grishchenko,
Verkhovna Rada Speaker Vladimir Litvin, members of political parties and
public figures. The sides will discuss bilateral relations, Ukraine's
European integration, in which Lithuania is ready to become a mediator.
The negotiations in Moldova will focus on the Dniester region
situation, including giving the 5+2 negotiations the formal status, which
Russia supported during Azubalis' visit to Moscow in the previous week.
The search for the way to settle the so-called protracted conflicts is
among the priorities of Lithuania's OSCE presidency in 2011. In Chisinau
Azubalis will meet with acting president and Parliament Speaker Marian
Lupu, Prime Minister Vlad Filat, Foreign Minister Iurie Leanca and
representatives of political parties.
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