Every two years, the European agency ENISA organizes a pan-European cyber exercise Cyber Europe.

[Press Release] Twelve case studies in which the authors describe methods and tricks to improve the performance of open source applications, this is what readers can now find in the book published under a Creative Commons license by the Czech national domain administrator, the CZ.NIC Association. The main editor of the nearly 300 page publication The Performance of Open Source Applications is a Canadian Tavish Armstrong. The electronic version of the book, as well as 12 other releases of CZ.NIC Publications, is available for free download at http://knihy.nic.cz. Fans of hard copies can order the title for CZK 329 or, if ordered via IPv6, for CZK 279.

[Press release] The Argentinian national domain registry will use the Czech registration system FRED (Free Registry for ENUM and Domains) for the administration of its internet domains with the .AR extension. NIC Argentina currently administers around 530,000 domains and has used FRED for their administration since the beginning of July 2016.

Major Internet organizations have signed the initiative, which aims to draw attention to the consequences that will be brought by the approval of the Gambling Act — censorship and limited access to the Internet. The initiative The Censor is Coming responds to the government bill on gambling, which will authorize officials of the Ministry of Finance to determine which websites are to be blocked by Internet service providers. The law has already passed the Chamber of Deputies and on May 25 it will be voted by the Senate.

[Press Release] A significant increase in Internet connection prices for end users of the Czech Republic may occur next year, if the government bill on gambling passes the Senate.

[Press Release] Panel discussion, discussions on online safety, presentation on the impact of the lottery law on blocking the Internet or an accompanying program in the form of workshops and seminars – that is a short list of the program of the two-day conference called Internet Technology (IT 16), organized by the Czech national domain administrator CZ.NIC on May 31 and June 1 at the Faculty of Information Technology of CTU in Dejvice, Prague.

Mid-May will bring changes to the Conditions of registration of .cz domain names and ENUM domain names as well as Conditions of the mojeID service for end users. The changes respond to the amendment on Consumer Protection.

[Press Release] The countries whose inhabitants contributed the most to this sum are the Czech Republic with more than a quarter share (28 %), followed by USA (16 %), Germany (14 %) and the United Kingdom (4 %).

[Press Release] The educational program Teach Your Aunt about the Internet, the first episode of which will be broadcast today, is a fun way to teach children aged 9 to 12 about the Internet, Internet technologies and online security.

On March 15, a conference on cyber security — Cyber Security in the Danube region — will be held in Prague, as a part of the international project CS Danube funded by the European Commission.