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News Article Monday, October 25th 2004, 11:01am EDT Actress Sues Website Over Porn Site. Actress Catherine Zeta-Jones has sued a Nevada topless club in Los Angeles saying they used her image for advertising and promotion wiothout her permission. The lawsuit said The Spice House, which bills itself as 'Reno's friendliest topless cabaret,' displayed her picture on 'numerous pages of its website, sometimes alongside partially nude women. News Article Monday, October 25th 2004, 10:59am EDT Homosexual TV offers gay porn, Wonder Woman. Gay porn and Wonder Woman repeats are to be offered in heavy doses on television in France from Monday as the country's first station aimed at homosexuals starts operations via cable and satellite. Pink TV, a channel largely financed by the three main existing commercial networks, plans to present a mix of respectable programming and spicy niche shows to draw in a segment of the viewing population it boasts advertisers want because of their supposed higher incomes and lack of dependents. News Article Monday, October 25th 2004, 10:59am EDT More may face child-porn charges in Australia. Scores of Victorians, including some in high-profile jobs and "positions of trust", could yet be charged under a nationwide crackdown on the possession of child pornography, a senior Victoria Police spokesman said today. So far 89 Victorians have been questioned and more than 100 search warrants executed under Operation Auxin, involving the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and state and territory police forces. But Victoria Police media director Stephen Linnell said in a statement today there could be more shocks to come. Sponsor Monday, October 25th 2004, 10:58am EDT Duke Dollars launches; adds GhettoGaggers. Duke Dollars is proud to announce its official launch and the addition of its new exterme interracial site to promote, GhettoGaggers.Additionally Duke Dollars has added a brand new Marketing Director and head of Affiliate Management. For those of you that may know him, we've brought Sherm Steele on board to help make your Duke Dollar promotions trouble free, successful, and of course profitable. Duke Dollars is a 50% partnership using the NATS system. News Article Monday, October 25th 2004, 10:57am EDT The Pentagon is investigating an Internet porn site that is publishing nude photos of what it claims are three female GIs in Iraq, The Post has learned. An inquiry began last Friday after Army personnel officials were informed that several provocative photos of the three women were posted on a Web site that specializes in "amateur pornography," and that the women were identified as soldiers serving in Iraq. An Army spokesman said officials have not been able to confirm that the women on the Web site are actually GIs. He added that until that can be established, all other questions on the issue are "hypothetical." News Article Monday, October 25th 2004, 10:56am EDT Why can't the British make better pornography? It's fast food to the haute cuisine of erotic art. As part of a controlled diet, it won't make us go blind. Last week saw the launch of the latest attempt to drag British pornography upmarket. Scarlet, a top-shelf magazine aimed at young women between 20 and 35, promises its audience reviews of the latest porn movies, stories about having sex with strangers on trains, and a sex toy - presumably strapped to its cover - for those who can't wait to open it up. News Article Monday, October 25th 2004, 10:56am EDT Satellite radio will let Howard Stern be as bad as he wants to be. Soon, Howard Stern will be able to do unspeakable things with a rottweiler. He will be able to find the world's only seven-headed midget and have her Jell-O wrestle Todd Bridges. He will be able to curse up a storm and strip search a brothel. If he chooses to, Stern -- coming in 2006 to a satellite radio near you -- will be able to hold the world's first naked hot dog-eating contest in a bed of thorny rose bushes, with 1,001 mustard-covered strippers and their overprotective pimps, too. It will be all the veteran radio talk show host has ever dreamed of: a no-holds- barred pass to excess and ecstasy and verbal extremities. News Article Monday, October 25th 2004, 10:55am EDT Porn goes upmarket in seminar at the ICA. Despite the best efforts of the Vice Squad, Soho has long been London's illicit epicentre of all things carnal. Today, however, the balance of sexual power will shift from Soho to the more salubrious surrounds of The Mall, where the Institute of Contemporary Art is staging two days of "smutty, not sexy" seminars entitled ErotICA. The ICA is aiming all its intellectual acumen at the sticky subject of sex - and just why the British, even in the 21st century, are so very abashed about the subject. News Article Monday, October 25th 2004, 10:54am EDT Man jailed in China's biggest porn crackdown. A man has been jailed for 19 years for trafficking pornographic DVDs in a case described as the biggest of its kind in China, state media reported on Monday. The man, identified only by his surname Chen, was sentenced in the southern city of Guangzhou on Saturday after being fingered as a ringleader of a gang that smuggled 4,4 million DVDs into China March last year, Xinhua news agency said. Content Monday, October 25th 2004, 10:54am EDT Six new sets of amateur babe at UltraXGirls. Six more sets of model Pam, a stunning long-haired, long-legged coed babe with a killer face and busty too. All images are 1200x900 broadband size and go for a buck each. Sets vary with about 30-40 images in each.  News Article Monday, October 25th 2004, 10:53am EDT A script-based virus that spies on Mac users was discovered late last week. The malware, which has been dubbed Opener by Mac user groups, disables Mac OS X's built-in firewall, steals personal information and can destroy data. Security experts say these traits are common among the thousands of viruses targeting Microsoft's ubiquitous Windows operating system but are virtually unheard of on Apple Computer's Mac OS. News Article Monday, October 25th 2004, 10:52am EDT Plague carriers: Most users unaware of PC infections. A study of home PCs released Monday found that about 80 percent had been infected with spyware almost entirely unbeknownst to their users. The study, funded by America Online and the National Cyber Security Alliance, found home users mostly unprotected from online threats and largely ignorant of the dangers. AOL and the NCSA sent technicians to 329 homes to inspect computers. News Article Monday, October 25th 2004, 10:51am EDT Song-Swap Networks Still Humming. Peer-to-peer traffic has not declined despite the music industry's aggressive pursuit of illegal file sharers, according to a new study. Researchers from the University of California at Riverside and the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis evaluated packet data on the internet and found that P2P continues to thrive. Their results are published in a study, titled "Is P2P dying or just hiding?" "In general we observe that P2P activity has not diminished," says the study, which will be presented at IEEE Globecom 2004 next month. "On the contrary, P2P traffic represents a significant amount of internet traffic and is likely to continue to grow in the future, RIAA behavior notwithstanding." News Article Monday, October 25th 2004, 10:51am EDT Firefox 1.0 limbers up for launch. Mozilla will today launch the nearly-final version of Firefox, its open source web browser, ahead of the 1.0 product launch on 9 November. The organisation says it aiming for 10 million downloads in the 100 days after inauguration, sparking much discussion of a return to the days of the browser wars, when Microsoft, AOL and Netscape battled for market share. Bart Decrem, spokesman for Mozilla, was in London last Friday to promote the browser. He noted: "When you look at how many people are downloading Firefox already, the 10m downloads target starts to feel very safe." News Bytes Saturday, October 23rd 2004, 12:05pm EDT The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously Bush quietly signs corporate tax cuts. News Article Saturday, October 23rd 2004, 12:04pm EDT Yahoo to Close PayDirect Online Payments Service. Yahoo Inc. in November will close PayDirect, its online payments service that aimed to compete with eBay Inc.'s PayPal, the company said on Friday. Yahoo's decision to shutter four-year-old PayDirect comes about a year after financial services giant Citigroup turned off its c2it online payments service, citing too few accounts to justify its operation. "Without the large user base to support PayDirect, the business doesn't scale," a Yahoo spokesman said. News Article Saturday, October 23rd 2004, 12:04pm EDT Google's post-flotation results. Search engine Google has just released its first set of financial results as a publicly listed company, following its flotation in August. So how does the firm operate, and what will its future be? How come Google can make its money if it doesn't charge me for using it? It may not charge you - but you pay for it anyway. Or rather, your eyeballs do. Much of Google's revenues come from the most traditional source of all: adverts. News Article Saturday, October 23rd 2004, 12:03pm EDT Arkansas high court adopts strict interpretation of porn law. The state Supreme Court on Oct. 21 adopted a strict interpretation of a disputed Arkansas law restricting the display and sale of sexually explicit materials. The high court issued its interpretations of Act 858 of 2003 to assist a federal judge handling a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the law, which was intended to regulate the display of pornographic material harmful to minors. The law has not been enforced because its constitutionality was immediately challenged by the American Civil Liberties Union and state bookstore associations. Unable to understand exactly what the law was intended to do, U.S. District Judge G. Thomas Eisele asked the state high court for help. News Article Saturday, October 23rd 2004, 12:02pm EDT New Netsky worm linked to South Korea. Antivirus researchers have discovered a new version of the Netsky worm that contains text linking it to a university in South Korea. Mikko Hypponen, director of antivirus research at European antivirus company F-Secure, said the latest variant contains two hidden strings: "SoonChunHyang" and "Bucheon." "There's a university called Soonchunhyang in the city of Bucheon, South Korea. So I guess this variant has something to do with South Korea," Hypponen said. News Article Saturday, October 23rd 2004, 12:01pm EDT Apple Tiger shows off parental controls. The latest build of Mac OSX 10.4, codenamed Tiger, has showcased new parental control features in the operating system. The feature is built into the user account handling section of the control panel, and allows for administrators on the system to configure the main suite of Apple applications - Finder, Safari, iChat and Mail - to restrict certain types of content. AppleInsider reports that features for Mail and iChat include the ability to block messages from anyone except for a trusted list of correspondents. Mail also allows for an administrator to approve all email messages as they arrive.  News Article Saturday, October 23rd 2004, 12:00pm EDT In a public post on the popular BugTraq Security vulnerability posting newsletter, Microsoft's (Quote, Chart) maligned Internet Explorer got an unexpected boost this week. According to a post by security researcher, Michal Zalewski, Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) may be more secure than its alternative counterparts in certain respects. Zalewski created what he referred to as a, "trivial program to generate tiny, razor-sharp shards of malformed HTML." He used the program as a test against Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Firefox, Netscape, Opera, Lynx and Links to feed the bad data (malformed HTML) to each of the browsers. News Article Saturday, October 23rd 2004, 12:00pm EDT Sex.com Ready to Define Itself. Sex.com has redesigned its Web site and is embarking on a long-term marketing plan, which the company hopes will shoot it to the top of the adult search engine ranks. The first gear in that machine – re-launching the Web site – has produced a more contemporary look. News Article Saturday, October 23rd 2004, 11:59am EDT DDoS vigilante militia could tackle net porn, says pundit. Considering events earlier in the week, this possibly is not an absolutely ideal time for us to find some blockhead commending the efficacy of DDoS attacks as a mechanism for eradicating anything. We have however been able to draw on our legendary supply of patience, fairness, balance and integrity prior to arriving at a considered judgment. Yup, this not so much half-baked as barely-kneaded notion is totally blockheaded, and whoever published it without pausing and thinking, er, wait a minute, wants DDoSing (there you see - it's catching). Step forward Guardian Online, which in yesterday's edition published Dave Birch's patent cure for Internet child porn. News Article Saturday, October 23rd 2004, 11:57am EDT Cincinnati to Decide Fate of Anti-Gay Rights Ordinance. An eleven-year battle over gay rights in Cincinnati will come to a head on November 2, when voters will decide the fate of Issue 3, a ballot measure calling for the repeal of an ordinance passed in 1993 that prohibits the city council from creating a gay rights ordinance. Cincinnati is only city in the United States with an ordinance that prohibits the city from granting rights to gays, lesbians or bisexuals. The pertinent ordinance is known as Article XII. News Article Saturday, October 23rd 2004, 11:56am EDT Naked News, which features nude presenters reading the day's headlines, could soon be available on mobile phones.Executive Producer David Warge said: "Naked News is the most successful transition from internet to television ever. We have shown that we offer a unique programme that attracts a large and loyal audience. "We are planning to produce programme segments geared to the current state of mobile technology in Europe, something that our target group considers important. News Article Saturday, October 23rd 2004, 11:55am EDT Windows v Linux security: the real facts. Considering the publicity that has surrounded - and, despite super new security-focused Service Packs, continues to surround - Windows security issues, Microsoft's determination to demonstrate that Linux is less secure than Windows shows a certain chutzpah. The company has however had some support here; Forrester, for example, provides some numbers that can be used to support the contention that Microsoft flaws are less severe, less numerous and fixed faster. And although there's a general readiness among users to believe that Windows is a security disaster area, there's also a reasonable amount of support for the view that Linux would get just as many security issues if it had anything like Windows' user base. News Article Saturday, October 23rd 2004, 11:54am EDT Phreakers will rape and pillage your mobile. Phreakers could seize control of users' mobile handsets, send arbitrary messages or render phones unusable because of a brace of Java-related security vulnerabilities, a security researcher warns. The problems have been demonstrated on a Nokia 6310i handset and might also apply to other phones running flawed implementations of mobile Java (J2ME). Each of the vulnerabilities can be used to "completely break Java security on a mobile device and to obtain access to the phone data and underlying operating system's functionality", according to Adam Gowdiak, a security researcher at Poland's Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, who discovered the problems. Both vulnerabilities are implementation flaws in Java Virtual Machine developed by Sun Microsystems. News Bytes Friday, October 22nd 2004, 1:12pm EDT The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously. Former CIA head Tenet Calls Iraq War Wrong. News Article Friday, October 22nd 2004, 1:11pm EDT Watchdog issues porn dialler guidelines. The body that regulates premium-rate telephone services has issued guidance telling users how to deal with porn diallers. The leaflet from ICSTIS explains how to distinguish legitimate dialler services from those that reroute dial-up connections by tricking consumers. It also explains how to make a complaint if you think you have been duped into downloading a dialler. News Article Friday, October 22nd 2004, 1:10pm EDT Open source backers start European antipatent campaign. A group of open source companies is backing a campaign aimed at thwarting a directive before the European Parliament and the European Union Council of Ministers that could make it legal to patent software in Europe. Launched throughout Europe last week in 12 languages, the NoSoftwarePatents (NSP) campaign is supported by US-based Linux operating system maker Red Hat and Swedish open source database vendor MySQL, as well as German software and internet services provider 1&1 Internet.  News Article Friday, October 22nd 2004, 1:09pm EDT Acacia Reports Third Quarter Results. Acacia Research Corporation today reported results for the three months ended September 30, 2004. Acacia Research Corporation comprises two operating groups, the Acacia Technologies group and the CombiMatrix group. "The Acacia Technologies group revenues for the third quarter of 2004 were $2,240,000, consisting of the recognition of $1,500,000 in deferred revenues from the licensing program for the television V-chip and $740,000 in licensing revenues from our Digital Media Transmission (DMT(R)) technology licensing program. We entered into 41 new licensing agreements for our DMT(R) technology in the third quarter, including our first 6 cable TV licenses. We signed an additional 7 cable TV licenses since the end of the third quarter and have entered into 188 DMT(R) technology licenses to date. New licensees also included online news, movie and entertainment companies such as Bloomberg, iFilm and World Wrestling Entertainment and a significant number of agreements with major corporations, such as Sonoco and Wachovia, covering the use of our DMT(R) Technology on corporate websites. We also recently commenced the licensing program for our Internet Access Redirection ("IAR") technology which is used at wireless hotspots," commented Chairman and CEO Paul Ryan. News Article Friday, October 22nd 2004, 1:08pm EDT Mbeki slams perceptions over black sexuality. A quote by an African-American professor about who were the purveyors of porn in the United States hit the right chord with ANC MPs yesterday, as President Thabo Mbeki set out to counter perceptions that black men were all rapists or over-sexed. During question time in the National Assembly, Mbeki again criticised views propaga-ted at home and abroad about the sexuality of African men. It follows Mbeki's recent attack in his ANC Today weekly letter on Aids activist Charlene Smith and Kathleen Cravero of UNAids. Mbeki labelled both women racist. He accused them of propagating a view that African culture, religion and social norms conditioned black men to be "rampant sexual beasts, unable to control our urges, unable to keep our legs crossed, unable to keep it in our pants".Mbeki borrowed the quote from an article titled "The Continuing Miseducation of the Negro" by African Ameri-can academic Dr Edward Rhymes. Rhymes wrote: "We are portrayed as oversexed or lascivious, and yet the porn and adult entertainment industry is dominated by whites." News Article Friday, October 22nd 2004, 1:07pm EDT It is a realm with engineered people and no limits. And it's reshaping global pop culture. Deborah Cameron examines the billion-dollar anime phenomenon. Sex, they insist with absolute courtesy, is what it's about. Violence, too. Look at history and you see war, look at life and you see sex. Be honest. It's what we want; we're programmed that way. For these two Japanese men, rated among the world's most influential animated filmmakers, sex and violence are inescapable. News Article Friday, October 22nd 2004, 1:06pm EDT Study explores relationship of porn and crimes. Police officials in Cache County are implementing a new program that will begin to document pornography when it is found at crime scenes. The county is conducting the study to determine if there is a relationship between pornography and crimes. Lt. Matt Bilodeau said the sheriff's office keeps statistics on all crimes but it has never documented statistics on pornography. News Article Friday, October 22nd 2004, 1:04pm EDT 'Prickly City' Comic Victimized as Readers Are Routed to Porn Site. America's polarized political atmosphere may have led to a dirty trick being played on the conservative "Prickly City" comic. After cartoonist Scott Stantis put a made-up URL in yesterday's strip, someone registered that Web address and configured it so that "Prickly City" readers typing in the address would be routed to an animal-porn site. "This tells you how ugly the political debate has become," Stantis told E&P today. "It's horribly embarrassing and disgusting. I'm just so sorry for anyone who looks it up." Stantis said it would have been "kind of clever" if the URL was routed to something like John Kerry's campaign Web site. But "this is just foul," he added, especially because children are among his comic's readers. Police officials in Cache County are implementing a new program that will begin to document pornography when it is found at crime scenes. The county is conducting the study to determine if there is a relationship between pornography and crimes. Lt. Matt Bilodeau said the sheriff's office keeps statistics on all crimes but it has never documented statistics on pornography. News Article Friday, October 22nd 2004, 1:00pm EDT Ten ways to boost your search appeal. If you don't know it yet, your marketing department will be telling you about it shortly. To get visitors to come to your site via search engine results (SERPs), you need to rank in the top 20 -- if not the top 10 -- for searches on specific keywords/phrases that your firm is targeting. If your Web site isn't appearing in the top 10, the chances of someone clicking on your listing drops exponentially for each subsequent page. While writing search engine-friendly content is out of the control of the Web development team, there is a lot you can do to optimize your site markup for search engines. Here are 10 tips to help you mark-up your code properly. News Article Friday, October 22nd 2004, 12:59pm EDT Anti Porn Candidate Returns Campaign Donation To Erotic Store Owner. A $250 contribution to Democratic congressional candidate Teresa Daly's campaign from the owner of a store specializing in "erotic and risque gifts" was sent back Thursday, her campaign manager said. The discovery came amid Daly television ads suggesting that children are "barraged with porn." Daly, a Burnsville City Council member, is running against GOP U.S. Rep. John Kline in the 2nd District, which runs across the southern suburbs of the Twin Cities area and some rural areas to the south. News Article Friday, October 22nd 2004, 12:58pm EDT EU Patent Fight Comes to the Fore. An effort to stop software patents in the European Union (EU) got a boost this week with the launch of NoSoftwarePatents.com. Red Hat (Quote, Chart) and MySQL AB are among the high-profile open source companies backing the effort. The site, which is offered in 12 languages, is intended as a lobbying and public relations effort to stop software patents in Europe. "Many governments and others spread misinformation about software patents and the directive, and our campaign will relentlessly debunk the untruths," Florian Muller, the site's campaign manager, said in a statement. Software patents aren't technically allowed in Europe, according to the terms of the European Patent Convention. However they're being granted despite the convention. The EU Council in May announced an initiative to bring EU patent law inline with that of the United States. According to Muller, "the only major difference would be how a patent application is presented, not what is patentable." News Article Friday, October 22nd 2004, 12:57pm EDT How Bad Search Terms Can Booby Trap Your Content. Web users type in some pretty far-out search terms when looking for information online. People are in a hurry and often don't bother with spelling, correct syntax, or logical phrasing. So they enter terms like: "girl sport shorts", "car used for sale", "copywriting engine optimization search services" . Those terms end up in lists of keyword phrases churned out by keyword suggestion tools such as Overture's. Hard to believe but Overture claims that last term is queried over 5 times a day... respectable numbers but how on earth do you write a term like that into copy that flows and makes sense? News Article Friday, October 22nd 2004, 12:55pm EDT Porn laws foil return of photos. When Mark Hogarth was a boy, he posed for hundreds of sexually explicit pictures, many involving other kids, in his house and with the alleged approval of his father. Now, the photos are "in safekeeping" in an undisclosed country where their possession is not a crime. But Hogarth wants to bring the pictures to his Albany home without getting into trouble and is suing the state and federal governments for clearance to do so. He claims his constitutional rights are being violated by child pornography laws.  News Article Friday, October 22nd 2004, 12:53pm EDT Keyword research is certainly the most important phase in Search Engine Optimization process. Whether you hire a SEO company to do the job or you are doing the SEO process in-house, take your time during this process. You should not be a spectator, but you should be an active part of the decision making process. Try to think as a customer. News Article Friday, October 22nd 2004, 12:53pm EDT A bumper crop of browser glitches. Users of IE, Firefox, Opera, Safari and Konqueror all need to patch their browsers or implement workarounds this week following the release of a "full house" of internet client bug reports. The most serious risk comes from a brace of IE security bugs which could be exploited to take over victim's systems. One of the vulns, a security zone restriction error, can bypass a security feature in Microsoft Windows XP SP2, Secunia reports. Even fully patched system with IE 6.0 and Microsoft Windows XP SP2 are vulnerable. Secunia advises users to disable active scripting as a precaution against attack. The vulnerabilities were independently discovered by Andreas Sandblad of Secunia Research and grey-hat hacker http-equiv. News Article Friday, October 22nd 2004, 12:52pm EDT Campaign warns of software patent menace. The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII-UK) has launched a new campaign to raise awareness of the dangers posed by software patents, particularly to smaller businesses. The campaign, Protect Innovation will target the government and businesses. As a first step, the organisers are inviting companies to send them their testimony and comments on the subject. This information will be included in a submission the FFII-UK is making to the DTI later in the year. Rufus Pollock, spokesperson for FFII-UK argues that although the official position on patents is that they exist to encourage and protect innovation, the reality is quite the opposite, and in fact threaten SMEs: “This is not an abstract issue or one solely relevant to the software sector. With the large and growing role that software plays in the UK, protecting innovation in this area from the threat of patents is essential to a strong, growing and resilient economy,” he said. News Article Friday, October 22nd 2004, 12:51pm EDT Viruses leap through window of opportunity. Mass mailing viruses could be consigned to the dustbin of history if only anti-virus vendors were quicker off the mark. Findings presented by security experts at the recent Virus Bulletin Conference in Chicago show that reducing the ‘window of vulnerability’ between the release of a virus and the availability of fixes could make email virus outbreaks a rarity. The window of vulnerability is the delay between the appearance of a new email-borne virus or worm, and the release of signatures by traditional anti-virus software vendors. Research presented by Gabor Szappanos from Virus Buster shows that when a new mass-mailing virus emerges, it usually takes a few hours to gather enough momentum to result in an outbreak. If anti-virus vendors were able to reduce the window of vulnerability to three hours or less, mass-mailing viruses would have little if any impact. News Article Friday, October 22nd 2004, 12:50pm EDT New U.K. Classification Body For Adult Mobile Content. A new U.K. regulatory body has been launched to oversee the self-classification of Adult commercial content on mobile phones. All U.K. mobile phone operators are supporting the body, including O2, Orange, TMobile, Virgin Mobile, Vodafone, and 3. A subsidiary of premium rate regulator ICSTIS, the Independent Mobile Classification Body (IMCB), will primarily act to police classification through preparing a framework in which providers of content to mobile subscribers will self-classify. The body will subsequently investigate complaints about content providers not classifying content legally. The work will be carried out and funded entirely separately from ICSTIS’s role as the regulator of premium rate services. News Article Friday, October 22nd 2004, 12:48pm EDT Yahoo! acquires searchable email outfit. Yahoo! has bought Stata Labs for an undisclosed amount of money. Stata makes Bloomba - an email client which allows you to search emails and their attachments. It also makes spam filter SAproxy. Stata Labs email client Bloomba and its spam filter SAproxy will no longer be offered for sale. Customers who bought either piece of software can get a full refund or will get support for a year from when the product was bought. Premium support is no longer available. Yahoo has no plans to sell either product, according to this FAQ on Stata's website. News Article Friday, October 22nd 2004, 12:47pm EDT Brazil's federal police on Wednesday arrested 50 hackers who were accused of using the internet to syphon off $28m from bank accounts of private citizens. Authorities said that hackers attacked some of the leading technology users in Brazil's financial sector: Caixa Economica Federal, Banco do Brasil, HSBC, Bradesco, Unibanco and Itau. Most of the suspects are under 25-years-old, a police spokesperson said. News Article Friday, October 22nd 2004, 12:46pm EDT Those who didn't hear enough about technology in the presidential debates now have a handy cheat sheet of responses from both leading candidates to 12 questions posed by the Computing Technology Industry Association earlier this month. President Bush's answers are stuffed with budget numbers, while Sen. John Kerry's (D-Massachusetts) responses are loaded with high-tech lingo like mesh networks, nanotechnology and cognitive radio. Both cover issues such as IT training, small business aid, cybersecurity and emerging technology. News Article Friday, October 22nd 2004, 12:45pm EDT Indymedia: the tale of the servers 'nobody' seized. Nobody seized Indymedia's servers, apparently. On the 7th October hosting company Rackspace 'acted in compliance' with a court order and two servers belonging to Indymedia were removed from Rackspace's premises in London. But the denials of involvement roll in, the latest coming from UK Home Office minister Caroline Flint, who in answer to Parliamentary questions said: "I can confirm that no UK law enforcement agencies were involved in the matter... In the circumstances I do not therefore believe that it is necessary for me to make a statement." News Bytes Thursday, October 21st 2004, 1:50pm EDT The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously US Soldier Gets 8 Years for Iraq Jail Abuse News Article Thursday, October 21st 2004, 1:49pm EDT Update: FSC Preparing to Challenge New 2257 Regulations Free Speech Coalition (FSC) is preparing a legal challenge to U.S. Code 2257 and supporting regulations, at the moment Attorney General John Ashcroft decides to hand down the planned final 2257 regulations. Attorney Jeffrey Douglas said they will at least wait until they see what the new regulations actually turn out to say before filing any litigation. “Judging by the proposed regulations, it will be very difficult for any Adult manufacturer, producer, content provider, or Web site operator to comply with the regulations,” FSC said in a letter that began circulating October 19 and made available to AVNOnline.com. News Article Thursday, October 21st 2004, 1:48pm EDT Serious bug found in Internet Explorer with XP SP2 Secunia said there are two bugs in Microsoft Internet Explorer which can be exploited by wicked people and which bypass security features in Windows XP SP2. Secunia describes these bugs as "highly critical", and said they have been confirmed as existing in a system using IE 6 and Windows XP SP2. Announcement Thursday, October 21st 2004, 1:48pm EDT XBiz launches print publication XBiz.com, The Industry Source, has just launched its highly anticipated new venture, XBiz World, the adult industry's first-ever large-format print publication. "XBiz has grown tremendously over the years and the next phase of our brand's progression had to be print. Going into print has not only widened our reach throughout the industry, it has increased the quality of our business content," Publisher Alec Helmy said. Free subscription and advertising inquiries at the site. News Article Thursday, October 21st 2004, 1:40pm EDT Address-form glitch proves an easy scam It's a harmless-looking part of every a Web site retailer's checkout page. The form filled out by customers ordering products almost always has a second line — sometimes it’s used for apartment numbers or other information; it's usually left blank. But that innocuous-looking second line could become a big headache for Internet merchants soon, says one fraud expert. Credit card criminals have figured out a simple way to use that second line to foil the most basic anti-fraud measures online merchants use. News Article Thursday, October 21st 2004, 1:40pm EDT 'Daily Show' book too racy for Wal-Mart Wal-Mart canceled an order for a best-selling book by Jon Stewart and the writers of "The Daily Show" after executives learned that it contained a photo of nine naked, aged bodies, each with the superimposed head of a Supreme Court justice. News Article Thursday, October 21st 2004, 1:39pm EDT Republican Web sites downed by mystery outage The Republican National Committee and the Bush-Cheney '04 campaign are investigating outages that left GOP.com and GeorgeWBush.com inaccessible for six hours on Tuesday. A spokeswoman for the Bush-Cheney '04 campaign said the outage could be a technical glitch and that the campaign was investigating the problem. Sponsor Thursday, October 21st 2004, 1:38pm EDT Top Bucks paying $55 PPS for two weeks TopBucks announces November “Pump Up The Volume” promotion where webmasters can ean up to $55 per signup. The new and innovative promotion is designed to reward existing TopBucks webmasters for increasing the number of sales they send to TopBucks’ sites. For the pay period of November 1st through the 15th, TopBucks will pay an additional $15 per signup for each sale sent in excess of the number of total sales sent through the same account during the recently completed October 1st through 15th pay period. More details at the site link above. News Article Thursday, October 21st 2004, 1:38pm EDT Japan arrests four over satellite porn Japanese police have arrested four people for allegedly using overseas satellite broadcasts to beam pornography into the country. Between March and July this year, they broadcast pornographic images from a Philippine broadcasting facility to a private communications satellite in Indonesia, the report said. The group had signed up about 52 users in Japan to view the images, police said. News Article Thursday, October 21st 2004, 1:36pm EDT Sex pledges to boost US vote turnout A new campaign to encourage young Americans to vote on election day is using a novel incentive - sex pledges. Americans who sign up to Votergasm can pledge to withhold sex from a non-voter for up to four years until the next presidential election in 2008. A spokeswoman told the BBC that the internet-based campaign aims to boost voter turnout among young people, as well as promoting safe, consensual sex. News Article Thursday, October 21st 2004, 1:36pm EDT Google on Thursday fixed a security flaw in its Web search service that could have allowed malicious hackers to modify its pages. Jim Ley, who runs a Web log, posted the warning about Google's script-insertion flaw, which he said has affected Google's main site for as long as two years. But with the addition of Google Desktop, the flaw became more serious. News Article Thursday, October 21st 2004, 1:35pm EDT Man flogs wedding invite on eBay Let's face it - we've all been invited to functions we'd rather not attend, and weddings can often inspire a special kind of dread. There are three options open to the reluctant guest: bite you lip and turn up with a fixed grin on your face; fake a terrible car accident the week before; or sell your invitation on eBay to the highest bidder. The latter is the course selected by the Aberdeen man who is offering "2 invitations to a wedding I don't want to go to". News Article Thursday, October 21st 2004, 1:34pm EDT American Passports to Get Chipped New U.S. passports will soon be read remotely at borders around the world, thanks to embedded chips that will broadcast on command an individual's name, address and digital photo to a computerized reader. The State Department hopes the addition of the chips will make passports more secure and harder to forge. But civil libertarians and some technologists say the chips are actually a boon to identity thieves, stalkers and commercial data collectors, since anyone with the proper reader can download a person's biographical information and photo from several feet away. News Article Thursday, October 21st 2004, 1:33pm EDT Homeland security: An assault on privacy? To show why the government's terrorist-finding database doesn't work, Elizabeth LaForest points to her own case file: While her arrest records are authentic, these days the 89-year-old Roman Catholic nun doesn't often run afoul of the law when taking part in peace demonstrations. News Article Thursday, October 21st 2004, 1:28pm EDT Mobile sex couple spark emergency British police used their best tracking equipment to locate a woman who they thought was being tortured but had still managed to dial 999 on her mobile. However it turned out that it was just a couple who while having sex had accidently trod on the woman's mobile phone. News Article Thursday, October 21st 2004, 1:28pm EDT Web Publishers Fear 'A Little Sharing' Look out, Internet publishing world, your registration-only content is being threatened. Cyber-savvy folks now have a way to tap shared site registrations and use them to access both free and subscription-only sites. While this may be a convenience boon to Web surfers, these community registration systems pose a problem for online publishers. News Article Thursday, October 21st 2004, 1:27pm EDT Coming soon to your pocket: HDTV phones Miniature mobile phones, which already double as cameras, Internet devices and music players, are poised to merge with the largest of home appliances, the television. The cell phone industry is working to build phones able to receive high-definition television signals over the air, even though HDTV has yet to make its way into most American living rooms. News Bytes Wednesday, October 20th 2004, 1:19pm EDT The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously CARE Suspends Humanitarian Work in Iraq After Kidnapping News Article Wednesday, October 20th 2004, 1:18pm EDT Worm Takes Advantage Of Microsoft Security Hole A worm has been identified that takes advantage of a security hole in the MSN and Microsoft Messenger, a public IM program, according to Omnipod. The worm is known as W32/Funner.A-mm It propagates itself by retrieving contacts from the MSN and Microsoft Messenger address book. "The Funner Worm highlights the glaring vulnerability associated with relying on Microsoft for all communication needs and public networks for IM." News Article Wednesday, October 20th 2004, 1:18pm EDT AOL Europe dumps Overture, plumps Google Google has ousted Yahoo!'s Overture to win AOL's European ad-placement business. Google already provides targeted advertising for AOL in the US and now it is adding the ISP's European business. AOL said its partnership with Overture had been successful, but it had decided to work with Google in future. AOL and Overture started working together in 2002. News Article Wednesday, October 20th 2004, 1:17pm EDT Testosterone Patch Hailed As Female Viagra Menopausal women had more sex and were happier about it when using an experimental hormone patch hailed by some as a possible female equivalent of Viagra, doctors reported Tuesday. Women on the testosterone patch had sex about four times more than they usually did in two months compared to only one additional session for women given a fake patch containing no hormone, a study found. Those who got real patches also reported more arousal, pleasure and orgasms, and had better self-images. News Article Wednesday, October 20th 2004, 1:17pm EDT Feds probe huge California data breach The FBI is investigating the penetration of a university research system that housed sensitive personal data on a staggering 1.4m Californians who participated in a state social program, officials said on Tuesday. The compromised system had the names, addresses, phone numbers, social security numbers and dates of birth of everyone who provided or received care under California's In-Home Supportive Services program since 2001. News Article Wednesday, October 20th 2004, 1:16pm EDT Sex.com Gives $10,000 To Acacia Challengers Sex.com mastermind Gary Kremen has donated $10,000 to an account set up to help support the challenge by several Adult Internet companies against Acacia Research’s streaming media patent claims. New Destiny/Homegrown Video chief Spike Goldberg welcomed the Kremen donation. "Most of our donations have been from small companies that don't have a lot to give, and big companies have not offered much support,” Goldberg said. “Sex.com is a wonderful exception." News Article Wednesday, October 20th 2004, 1:16pm EDT Anti-Virus Products Miss Malware in Modified Zip Files An anonymous researcher has reported through several sources that anti-virus products from six vendors fail to detect malware when it is contained in a corrupted Zip file. The modification to the Zip file prevents the anti-virus programs from detecting files in it, but it doesn't prevent users from accessing those files, according to an advisory from Internet security research firm iDefense. Sponsor Wednesday, October 20th 2004, 1:15pm EDT Niched paysite TightFetish.com launched TightFetish.com features it's initial lineup of over 3,300 exclusive high quality images consisting of tight jeans, jean skirts, non nude and more from multiple models. TightFetish.com is currently accepting new affiliates to promote the site for 50% of all sales and 50% of all recurring billing, all processed and handled in real time through CCbill. News Article Wednesday, October 20th 2004, 1:14pm EDT Child Faces Child Porn Charges For Posting Photos Of Self A 13-year-old boy who posted pictures of himself on the Internet was charged with possessing and dealing in child pornography. A Thurston County, Wash., deputy prosecutor, John Skinder, said the boy was charged Friday with possessing and dealing in depictions of a minor engaged in explicit behavior. |
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