Top Internet Markets

AP – Dubai’s police chief says worries about spying by the U.S., Israel and others helped push plans to limit BlackBerry services in the United Arab Emirates.

AFP – Malaysia has formed a task force to scour the Internet for blog postings deemed harmful to national unity, authorities said on Friday in the latest of a series of actions against new media.

AP – ArcSight Inc. said Thursday its fiscal first-quarter profit tripled as the cybersecurity software and services company’s sales jumped 39 percent.

AP – Facebook is rolling out a new security feature that lets users log out of their accounts remotely from another computer.

PC World – An information security company will soon release a tool that will allow companies to test their ERP (enterprise resource planning) software for security threats.

AP – BlackBerry’s Canadian manufacturer should give law enforcement agencies around the world access to its customer data, the U.N.

AP – India has widened its security crackdown, asking all companies that provide encrypted communications — not just BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion — to install servers in the country to make it easier for the government to obtain users’ data. That would likely affect digital giants like Google and Skype.

AFP – India’s government on Wednesday said BlackBerry, Google, Skype and other communications providers must set up servers in the country to allow security forces to intercept Internet data.

PC World – A botnet responsible for a significant amount of spam has been crippled but may reconstitute itself in a matter of weeks, according to vendor M86 Security.

60 days to prove lack of security The Indian government has granted BlackBerry users a two-month stay of execution, while it evaluates RIM’s latest interception facility and serves notice to Google and Skype.…