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News Article Thursday, October 14th 2004, 11:11am EDT How to kill a website with one email. How much effort does it take to get an ISP to pull public domain material using unsubstantiated legal threats? Distressingly little, according to a recent study by Dutch group Bits of Freedom. Bits of Freedom signed up with 10 Dutch ISPs and used the websites to host text by Dutch author Multatuli, dating from 1871. Multatuli died in 1887 and his works are now in the public domain. A notice to that effect was attached to the published content. The organisation then posed as the copyright holders of the work. A "legal representative" of the fake E.D. Dekkers society sent a "complaint" demanding that "copyright infringing" content be pulled forthwith to the 10 ISPs. The complaint - sent via a Hotmail account - cited notice and takedown provisions in the recent European E-commerce Directive. News Article Thursday, October 14th 2004, 11:10am EDT Local politicos donned hard hats and swung sledgehammers Wednesday morning as they helped destroy a tiny porn shop on an unincorporated stretch of historic Route 66. "This location, for generations, has sucked life out of this community," Mayor Mark Nuaimi said. "We're going to have new families move in here who can take part in the American dream of homeownership." The entire Fontana City Council and San Bernardino County 2nd District Supervisor Paul Biane aided in the demolition of Jackman Adult Bookstore, which is moving to a new location 15 miles east in Highland. "I wish there weren't any places in the county for these businesses, but the fact is, they have a constitutional protection that allows them to operate," said Biane, who broke the end off a sledgehammer with his first swing at a wall. News Article Thursday, October 14th 2004, 11:09am EDT Personal Firewall: Don't Surf Without It. A personal firewall should protect your computer against external attacks by hackers or worms and against internal betrayal by spyware or Trojan horse programs. It shouldn't inundate you with alerts or otherwise interfere with normal computer use. We tested new versions of two well-known firewalls in three distinct ways. On a direct, unprotected connection to the Internet we ran a dozen Web-based tests to ensure that all ports were stealthed—completely hidden from the outside. We ran ten leak test programs—single-purpose utilities that attempt to circumvent the firewall in the same way a worm or Trojan might. Finally, we took the gloves off and attacked the firewall process using techniques available to a malicious program. News Article Thursday, October 14th 2004, 11:08am EDT Google Founders on Hiring Trip to India. Google Inc. founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin said Wednesday that some new features on the world's top search engine and other services will come from its research center in the southern Indian city of Bangalore, where they are on a hiring spree. "One approach we are taking is that Bangalore is where we run a mirror exactly of what we have in the United States in terms of development," Brin told reporters in Bangalore, the capital of Karnataka state. News Article Thursday, October 14th 2004, 11:07am EDT Microsoft's 'Critical' Patches Include IE Fix. Microsoft released its October batch of security advisories Tuesday with a slew of critical patches, including a monster fix for the Internet Explorer browser. In all, the software giant issued 10 advisories, seven rated "critical" and three with the lower "important" rating. In addition, Microsoft re-released the MS04-028 bulletin to correct newly discovered issues for customers running Windows XP Service Pack 2. The updated MS04-028 advisory covers JPEG Parsing (GDI+) in Windows, Office and other graphics programs, and comes at a time when active exploits are already making the rounds. News Article Thursday, October 14th 2004, 11:06am EDT Patent case challenges Microsoft's 'AutoPlay'. A federal judge ruled against Microsoft on Wednesday in a patent suit challenging "AutoPlay" technology included in recent versions of Microsoft Windows. Judge Jeffrey White of U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California denied three Microsoft motions for summary judgment in a suit filed by TV Interactive Data (TVI), a small Monte Sereno, Calif., company specializing in interactive television technology. News Article Thursday, October 14th 2004, 11:05am EDT Fewer women in computer jobs these days. Women have lost ground when it comes to some geeky professions. A study released Wednesday by the Commission on Professionals in Science and Technology found a decline in the share of computer science jobs held by women in a recent 20-year period. In 1983, women held 30.5 percent of the jobs in the category of computer systems analysts and scientists, programmers and postsecondary computer science teachers, according to the commission. That figure declined to 27.2 percent in 2002. News Article Thursday, October 14th 2004, 11:04am EDT While the entertainment industry has had some recent setbacks in its fight against piracy in the courts and in Congress, it has a new ally in John Ashcroft, who recently pledged to make cracking down on copyright violators a top priority. On Tuesday, the attorney general released a report from the Department of Justice's Intellectual Property Task Force that outlines plans to beef up enforcement of copyright violations. "With the recommendations put forward by the task force, the department is prepared to build the strongest, most aggressive legal assault against intellectual property crime in our nation's history," Ashcroft said in a statement. Those recommendations include increasing the number of FBI agents to sniff out copyright violators, better training programs for prosecutors and law enforcement officers who investigate such offenses, and increasing cooperation between businesses and individuals affected by such theft. News Article Thursday, October 14th 2004, 11:03am EDT Everything to Do with Sex Show: Booked Your Booth. With just a few weeks to go before the Everything To Do With Sex Show, show manager David Stein wants to thank all confirmed exhibitors for their strong support in 2004. Show organizers are now over 80 per cent of the way to their sales objective, and are looking forward to the biggest and greatest show ever on October 28-31. Advance ticket sales through the Web site have been overwhelming. Since the advertising campaign started two weeks ago, the Everything To Do With Sex Web site (everythingtodowithsex.com) has been getting thousands of hits per day. Attendance projections are right on track. News Article Thursday, October 14th 2004, 11:03am EDT The nonprofit agency in charge of the Net's address system has gained approval for its controversial 2004-2005 budget, following months of acrimony between large registrars and their smaller competitors. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) hammered out the agreement Friday after resolving a key disagreement that had delayed the measure. The sticking point was a tripartite fee structure that smaller registrars organized to fight, claiming it unfairly disadvantaged them.  News Article Thursday, October 14th 2004, 11:02am EDT Beware of buying email marketing lists. The UK's Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) yesterday issued a ruling against an online DVD rental company that sent marketing emails to addresses on a list that it had bought under the impression that those on the list had consented to third party marketing. Moviechoices.com, a division of Peterburgh-based Home Entertainment Corporation plc, had purchased a marketing database of 216,000 customer e-mail addresses from a liquidated company. The people on the list had consented to receiving email from the list seller. And Moviechoices.com was under the impression that they had also opted-in to receiving email marketing from third parties - it even had a contract that said so. News Article Thursday, October 14th 2004, 11:01am EDT How homosexuality is 'inherited'. Scientists say they have shown how male homosexuality could be passed from generation to generation. Nature encourages mothers to pass on a "gay trait" to their male offspring by boosting their fertility, the Italian University of Padova team believes. This would keep the pattern of gay inheritance alive, they told the Royal Society's Biological Sciences journal. Critics of the theory argue a gay gene would eventually be wiped out because gay couples do not procreate. News Article Thursday, October 14th 2004, 11:00am EDT Smut filter in Dick-pulling outrage. Hundreds of Norfolk primary school kids will not enjoy the chance to get a sneak preview of a traditional Xmas panto after porn filters binned the promotional email. The show in question is not - as you might imagine - Jim Davidson's hilarious Sinderella, but rather an entirely innocent rendering of timeless classic Dick Whittington. Promoters emailed over 30 schools offering a free preview, but received just two replies. They later discovered that highly-tuned school systems had acted promptly to protect the children from unsolicited Dick - just one of a whole smutbag of proscribed terms which trigger an educational DEFCON 1. News Article Thursday, October 14th 2004, 10:52am EDT IndyMedia Gets Its Servers Back. Less than a week after the U.S.-directed London seizure of two of its servers, the collective news organization IndyMedia said Wednesday that the devices have been returned to its service provider, Rackspace. However, the 20 or so sites that these servers host will remain closed to the public until the organization can inspect the disks and ensure their contents have not been altered. Both IndyMedia and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which is providing the collective with legal representation, say it's still unclear exactly what happened, who ordered the seizures or on what basis they were ordered. The best guess insiders offer, because of the sequence of events, is that the seizure was provoked by a posting that originated on IndyMedia's Swiss site, and that the seizure request therefore originated with Swiss police. News Article Thursday, October 14th 2004, 10:51am EDT Identify file-sharers, judge tells UK ISPs. The English High Court today gave UK ISPs just 14 days to disclose the names and addresses of individuals the music industry claims have offered "massive" numbers of songs on P2P networks without permission. The order, made by Mr. Justice Blackburne, follows a request from UK music trade association the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). Earlier this week, it warned it would begin legal proceedings against anyone offering music without authorisation, beginning with a list of 28 people it claims are among the worst offenders. News Bytes Wednesday, October 13th 2004, 1:07pm EDT The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously Bush, Kerry near final debate. News Article Wednesday, October 13th 2004, 1:06pm EDT Search Engines: Playing A Game You Can't Win. If you go strictly by the numbers, Yahoo, MSN and Google are the "Big 3" of search engines and directories. Between them, they index millions and millions of pages in their directories. Although Google claims to index over 4 billion. However, that's a subject for a different day. The point is, out of all those millions and millions of pages, there's room for only a very few websites at the top of the results pages. That means, if you go strictly by the number of indexed web pages in their directories, you have a better chance of winning the lottery, than getting high enough in the results pages to where it's going to make a significant difference in your traffic. That's not my opinion, it's a fact! You're simply playing a game YOU CANNOT WIN! So what can you do about it? The first thing you need to do is forget about the search engines--period! Just forget about them! News Article Wednesday, October 13th 2004, 1:05pm EDT AVN Publications Launches Quarterly Magazine for Adult Novelty Industry. AVN Publications is pleased to announce its newest business-to-business title, Adult Novelty Business. This quarterly publication is designed to deliver targeted industry information to adult novelty manufacturers and retailers. "Adult Novelty Business helps industry leaders remain in the forefront of change by providing in-depth coverage of the topics most relevant to their professional lives," said Tim Connelly, publisher of AVN Magazine. News Article Wednesday, October 13th 2004, 1:04pm EDT Outage nearly over, PayPal says. PayPal said late Tuesday it has fixed a software glitch that locked some of its customers out of their accounts and crippled eBay users' ability to complete online transactions. As of Wednesday morning, PayPal's site appeared to be functioning properly again, after several days of intermittent performance. The company has acknowledged that the problem was related to a software code update that it made to the site on Thursday. As the issue began to proliferate, customers of PayPal's parent company, online auctioneer eBay, began filling that site's message boards with complaints. News Article Wednesday, October 13th 2004, 1:03pm EDT Microsoft warns of 22 new security flaws. Microsoft on Tuesday published 10 software security advisories, warning Windows users and corporate administrators of 22 new flaws that affect the company's products. The advisories, and patches published with the bulletins, range from an "important" flaw affecting only Microsoft Windows NT Server to a collection of eight security holes, including three rated "critical," that leave Internet Explorer open to attack. Microsoft's highest severity rating for software flaws is its "critical" ranking, while "important" is considered slightly less severe.  Worm Wednesday, October 13th 2004, 1:02pm EDT W32/Funner is believed to be behind an outage, or a downage as we call it, of the MSN Messenger network which lasted from Sunday to Monday. At the time a spokesman from the Lair of the Vole in Redmond said that the problem was 'a glitch' which prevented users from logging on and that there was nothing to see... move on please. Anti-virus outfit Sophos said that 'glitch' was more likely to be the W32/Funner worm which it spotted scuttling across the MSN network at the time. The worm presents the receiver with a message and an attachment. If the attachment is opened, the worm then infects the machine by installing to the system's registry and replicating itself. However the worm is a little obvious, even to MSN users and most people ignored it. Otherwise the damage could have been a lot worse. News Article Wednesday, October 13th 2004, 1:00pm EDT Is your computer safer than it was four years ago? Last week, a new report in the Washington Post questioned the security of the nation's automatic control systems (free registration required), which control water, gas, and electrical systems. Meanwhile, the South Korean Ministry of Defense announced that North Korea has trained up to 600 computer hackers to launch cyberattacks against the United States and South Korea. But over at the Department of Homeland Security's cybersecurity division, the lights are on, but nobody's home. Last week, citing ongoing frustration, the director of the Department of Homeland Security's cybersecurity division, Amit Youran, abruptly resigned with a one-day notice. His deputy, Donald A. Purdy, will replace Yoran; however, many in the cybersecurity community feel that simply replacing Yoran isn't the answer. I think the position itself needs to be rethought. News Article Wednesday, October 13th 2004, 12:59pm EDT Use sex education to kill porn: Study. Exposure to sex — on internet, magazines or TV is turning out to be every parent’s nightmare. But a recent ICMR study shows a way out. Conducted by department of psychiatry, PGI on 1,060 students in 18 schools of the city, the study says if parents and teachers can satisfy the curiosity of children in acceptable ways — like more comprehensive sex education — they won’t resort to such sources of information. The study found most schools lacking. News Article Wednesday, October 13th 2004, 12:58pm EDT Federal authorities call for crackdown on copyright infringement. A federal task force has recommended expanded investigative and prosecutorial powers to combat intellectual property theft ranging from counterfeit drugs to swapping songs over the Internet. Wiretaps should be allowed to investigate intellectual property theft that threatens health and safety and more investigators should be added in key U.S. cities and in piracy hot spots in Asia and Eastern Europe, the report released Tuesday said. News Article Wednesday, October 13th 2004, 12:57pm EDT Secret Search Engine Insider Statistics. Which Search engines provide the most relevancy for website ad producers & SEO specialists? I believe the answer is in letting the market (the end user) decide which search engine brings the most meat to the table. This can easily be determined by viewing the little known unique visitor statistics of the top search engines. Could knowing which search engines are receiving the most traffic aid you in SEO, and thus increase traffic to your own website? The very thought is extremely tantalizing. News Article Wednesday, October 13th 2004, 12:55pm EDT Johannesburg - A study has found that 60% of all South Africans prefer to jump into bed with someone after watching pornography. Durex's latest annual poll also found these people were adventurous when it came to sex toys - and that they had a preference for handcuffs and blindfolds. The survey results were launched at Johannesburg Country Club on Tuesday, and the poll involved about 350 000 people in 41 countries. Of these, at least 3 000 were South Africans. News Article Wednesday, October 13th 2004, 12:54pm EDT Blair warns of internet dangers. Mr Blair was speaking during the weekly prime minister's questions . Tony Blair has insisted the UK has one of the best regimes in the world for tackling child pornography on the web. The prime minister told MPs the internet "bestowed enormous benefits" but it was crucial children were helped to use the internet safely. "It is important we make sure we do all we possibly can to protect children who maybe gaining access to unsuitable material," said Mr Blair. Sponsor Wednesday, October 13th 2004, 12:51pm EDT Silverstein joins VideoPassCash. Up and coming Video On Demand company, VideoPassCash.com, has joined forces with adult internet veteran Jonathan Silverstein, to officially launch VideoPass.com as the most aggressive V.O.D. affiliate program to be promoted in any webmaster's money making arsenal today! Jonathan's company, Virtual iNet Promotions, Inc. will spearhead the assault handling webmaster relations, as well as manage all sales and marketing for the company. Webmasters can make 50% on all full memberships or 30% on both pay-per-minute and pay-per-movie sales and get the customer for life. News Article Wednesday, October 13th 2004, 12:49pm EDT Netscape: Down--way down--but not out. The browser that brought the Web to the masses, and then virtually disappeared, is 10 years old. Now it's getting ready for an AOL makeover. After catalyzing the growth of the Web 10 years ago, Netscapees are back in business, doing everything from venture capital to nightclubs. News Article Wednesday, October 13th 2004, 12:48pm EDT FCC Proposes $1.2M Indecency Fine for Fox. Federal regulators proposed a record indecency fine of nearly $1.2 million Tuesday against Fox Broadcasting Co. for an episode of its reality series "Married by America" that included graphic scenes from bachelor and bachelorette parties. The Federal Communications Commission (news - web sites) said the material, which featured male and female Las Vegas strippers in a variety of sexual situations, was indecent and patently offensive, intended to "pander to and titillate the audience."  News Article Wednesday, October 13th 2004, 12:47pm EDT Stop reading all that "clickwrap" fine print! A browser bot will accept or reject agreements - on your terms. I have a recurring nightmare. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer shows up on my doorstep demanding my left kidney, claiming that I agreed to this in some "clickwrap" contract. In my waking life, I am inundated with such agreements - privacy policies, downloading poliicies, security policies, software licensing agreements - all vying for my assent. As a lawyer, I write these contracts for clients, but I must confess that I never read them online. Who has the time? Unfortunately, the law assumes we all do - and that by clicking, we are "agreeing" to the unread privacy policy, to spyware being installed on our systems, or to pornographic pop-up ads. Almost every site has terms and conditions; as a result, regular Internet users are faced with dozens of such agreements a week. Some come in the form of the ubiquitous "I Agree" button, others in the form of prose hidden at the bottom of the homepage under the moniker "Legal." News Article Wednesday, October 13th 2004, 12:46pm EDT Developers finger Google's text service. When The New York Times leaked Google's intentions to create a branded mobile phone handset earlier this year, executives were furious, and heads rolled. Incredibly, the outrage wasn't synthetic. Only in a backwater like California - where the entrepreneurial, technological and social awareness of mobile phones lags slightly behind Cambodia and Albania - could such a caper be viewed as either original or posing some commercial merit. (Nike is just one of several companies that had toyed with, and rejected, the idea of a branded phone. The reasons are obvious: in most of the world, users see phones as a fashion items, and change them frequently - often more than once a year. So this year's cool brand can quickly become next year's mullet.) News Article Wednesday, October 13th 2004, 12:45pm EDT Federal Trade Commission believes that no place is more fraud-friendly than the web. The agency estimates that more than one in 10 Americans (perhaps as many as 30 million people in this country) have fallen victim to fraud. Last year, internet-related fraud complaints surpassed all others, comprising 55 percent of all digital malfeasance, and for the first time the net supplanted the telephone as the most popular initial point of contact for dupers to meet dupees. An almost endless array of clever schemes exists to separate consumers from their money. There are cross-border scams that consist of fake foreign lotteries, phony prize promotions, advance-fee loan cons and the infamous Nigerian scam. Charity scams take advantage of consumers' generosity while so-called home-opportunity scams zero in on people looking for an easy way to make a few extra bucks. Identity thieves "phish" for personal information, like account numbers and PINs, which they use to sink your good credit (while sucking every penny out of your bank account). Pop-up spammers rely on nefarious methods to secretly wrest control of your PC desktop so they can pummel you with ads. Auction fraud accounts for half of the complaints the agency receives. News Article Wednesday, October 13th 2004, 12:44pm EDT Yahoo! made its sixth consecutive quarter of record revenue in the third quarter ended 30 September 2004. Revenues were $907m, up 154 per cent on the same period a year ago. Operating income for the three months was $172m, up 106 per cent on last year. Net income for the third quarter was $253m, boosted by $129m brought in by the sale of part of Yahoo!'s stake in Google. The firm is widely seen as a bellwether for the health of internet firms - although this position is under threat from Google, which reports later this month. News Bytes Tuesday, October 12th 2004, 1:30pm EDT The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously. Bush, Kerry Talk Tough on Oil, Terror. News Article Tuesday, October 12th 2004, 1:27pm EDT Was Bush packing Wi-Fi in TV debate? Wireless technology might explain why US President George W. Bush performed better than usual in the last two presidential debates with his opponent, Senator John Kerry. Unless he's reading a well-rehearsed speech, the President is normally much given to malapropisms and incoherent syntax. When confronted with questions for which he is not prepared, he typically muddles along unintelligibly when starting a reply, until he finds a path to one of his prepared talking points, as he repeatedly did during his televised prime-time press conference of 13 April 2004. It is not unusual for him to take refuge in his prepared points, regardless of what question is asked, and his answers are often irrelevant as well as confused. That is, he tends to stay "on message," rather than "on topic". Interestingly, screen shots of the first debate, courtesy of Cryptome, show a cigarette-pack-sized object positioned between Bush's shoulders, impressing itself on his suit jacket. A wire appears to run from the object, up towards the President's neck. This is best seen in the first column, fourth picture, and in the second column, fourth picture. News Article Tuesday, October 12th 2004, 1:26pm EDT Online payment outfit PayPal has been explaining why its service has been ropey since last week, leaving users struggling to access the service. A statement on the eBay subsidiary's site reads: "A technical problem has caused intermittent availability for members attempting to use the site. Activities such as accessing account information, paying for ended eBay listings, and using PayPal shipping functionality have been intermittently available. "PayPal is continuing to work to resolve these issues. We understand the inconvenience this issue has caused for some members, and we appreciate your patience." Spokeswoman Amanda Pires, told Reuters that the company was "working furiously" to resolve the problem, which seems to be related to some coding snag, Content Tuesday, October 12th 2004, 1:25pm EDT Eight broadband sets of pregnant model at UltraXGirls Eight sets of preggo redhead Carla in broadband (1200x900) format. Also, this week, for list members, all pregnant model sales are on sale. Each set contains between 30-40 images and pricing goes for a buck an image. News Article Tuesday, October 12th 2004, 1:24pm EDT Phishing websites breed like rabbits Websense Security Labs has issued figures showing a massive increase in phishing websites. According to the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG), the number of phishing scam websites is rising by roughly 50 per cent month on month. Phishing sites trick people into revealing confidential information such as social security numbers and credit card information details by imitating legitimate business sites. However, Websense's research also shows that a new type of phishing website has emerged. These do not imitate established companies, but pretend to be an entirely new company, offering products or services over the internet. News Article Tuesday, October 12th 2004, 1:23pm EDT Supermodel Threatens Jenna Jameson with Legal Action Over Alleged Flirtation Though Jenna Jameson generally prefers not to kiss and tell, she decided to dish just little about a few of her celebrity encounters in her best-selling book How to Make Love Like a Porn Star. Supermodel Cindy Crawford was the one person mentioned in the book who was upset enough to demand a retraction. Last week Jameson received a letter from Cindy Crawford's trial lawyers demanding a retraction, removal of the offending passage from any future printings of the novel, and a handwritten letter acknowledging that Jameson was entirely incorrect in her assumption that Crawford was hitting on her.  News Article Tuesday, October 12th 2004, 1:22pm EDT Judge says state can't prohibit sales of sex toys The case against an adult novelty store employee accused of displaying sex toys was dismissed today by an El Paso County Criminal Court judge. Judge Alma Trejo granted a defense motion to dismiss the case against Sergio Acosta, manager of Tres Equis in El Paso. A spokesman for the El Paso County District Attorney's Office said the ruling will be appealed. The judge's one-sentence ruling didn't give any explanation, and she didn't return a call from The Associated Press seeking comment. Sponsor Tuesday, October 12th 2004, 1:20pm EDT RealBigCash adds four new paysites RealBigCash, Inc. is proud to announce the release of 4 brand new sites into their network. NavyWife.com, TrannyTricking.com, ShemaleNymphos.com and TwoGirlsOnAGuy.com are hot off the design station and accepting your traffic. Each site contains no more than one pop-under and each features banners, buttons, and hosted galleries. Real Big Cash offers webmasters the opportunity to "promote sites and products from tons of sponsors with only one affiliate account." News Article Tuesday, October 12th 2004, 1:19pm EDT Man sets wife on fire for denying him sex An enraged man set his wife on fire in the Philippines for refusing to have sex with him, police said. Segundo Conchada, 40, also allegedly doused his two daughters ages two and three with gasoline and set them on fire before he was arrested by police in a coastal town in Quezon province, just south of the capital Manila. Conchada allegedly went home before dawn and demanded that his wife, Norma Conchada, immediately have sex with him. But the wife rejected the demand and Conchada went into a rage, dousing her and their two children with gasoline and torching them. The three victims sustained serious burn injuries, but were in stable condition, police said. News Article Tuesday, October 12th 2004, 1:18pm EDT Where Opera Is Out-Browsing Explorer For almost a decade, pockets of Web cognoscenti have snubbed Microsoft (MSFT ) and Netscape, choosing instead to surf the Internet on Opera, the browser produced by Norway's Opera Software. With its estimated 10 million users, Opera has long run a distant third in the browser battles. But with security concerns about Microsoft's Internet Explorer on the rise, growing numbers are downloading Opera. CEO Jon S. von Tetzchner discussed the browser business with Senior Writer Stephen Baker and Software Editor Steve Hamm. Edited excerpts follow. News Article Tuesday, October 12th 2004, 1:16pm EDT Spyware, those annoying programs that snoop on a user's actions, remain a Windows-only phenomenon. Prominent anti-spyware developer Webroot says it has yet to detect a single Apple or Linux spyware app. In comparison, Webroot's Spy Sweeper software protects against 15,000 Windows threats. Although Apple and Linux server worms (such as Lion) have been detected, their population is dwarfed by the proliferation of Windows-specific worms, viruses and Trojans. The main reason for this is that virus - and spyware authors - write malware for the most common platform. Upsells Tuesday, October 12th 2004, 1:15pm EDT Flirt4Free gay feeds gains in popularity Video Secrets announced earlier today that their flagship live adult chat site Flirt4Free.com is witnessing record attendance to its gay feature shows. Traffic has been climbing to its 3-hour gay feature show broadcasts since their inception almost two years ago. Gay adult film stars like Mark Wolff, Caesar, Jason Adonis and Brad Benton have all appeared in their own shows over the past few months. The next gay show will be broadcast on Thursday, October 14th, 5-8pm (Pacific) featuring Tristian Adonis and Corbin. Webmasters get free live feeds and 20-35% paid on upsells. News Article Tuesday, October 12th 2004, 1:14pm EDT Sex poll: France tops list, Asia lags behind France is well positioned as the world's sexiest state, according to a global survey of lovemaking published on Tuesday. In a poll of more than 350,000 people, condom maker Durex found that lovers across the globe are having sex an average of 103 times per year, but the French are living up to their romantic reputation with an average of 137 times. Greeks and Hungarians followed close behind, with averages of 133 and 131 times a year. Americans, who topped the charts in 2000 at 132 times a year, have since fallen to the middle of the pack scoring just 111 times, suggesting they have either changed their habits in the bedroom or the way they respond to the survey. News Article Tuesday, October 12th 2004, 1:13pm EDT Secret life of Internet porn king Leslie Weiss rushed to her computer when she found out that Tom Gartman, the American her Alberta company had promoted to head office after he excelled as a maintenance man, had been accused this spring of peddling gruesome porn on-line. Behind Mr. Gartman's well-constructed mask of normalcy lurked an Internet porn king, an unrepentant dealer of videos depicting scenes of rape, torture and unspeakable acts of degradation, a man known to police as one of the Web's most notorious spammers, who flooded unsuspecting computer users -- including chat groups used by sexual-abuse victims -- with plugs for his so-called "goods and services." Mr. Gartman's trail, pieced together through court filings on both sides of the border, offers a rare glimpse into the borderless world of Internet pornography. It is a multibillion-dollar industry where an avalanche of smut is available, as is the chance to make quick cash despite international efforts to stem the flow. News Bytes Monday, October 11th 2004, 1:35pm EDT The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously. Zogby poll: Kerry Opens Three-Point Lead on Bush. News Article Monday, October 11th 2004, 1:33pm EDT Czech sex diva taps into trend in porn industry advice books. Czech-born porn star and sex industry empress Dolly Buster launched a relationship guide at the world's largest book fair on Thursday, part of a budding genre of hard-core self-help books. Dressed in a low-cut blazer, a micro miniskirt and boots made for anything but walking, Buster said the volume was "aimed at 19-year-old boys as well as 80-year-old grandmothers". In some 200 pages, Dolly Buster's Ultimate Sex and Relationship Guide offers pointers on how to find Mr. or Ms. Right for one night or a lifetime.  News Article Monday, October 11th 2004, 1:30pm EDT A transgender porn actress plunged to her death from a luxury Chelsea apartment building early yesterday, apparently a suicide, cops and a friend said. The 36-year-old Mexican immigrant fell 20 floors from the 30-story Vanguard Chelsea on W.24th St. at the corner of Sixth Ave., landing in the street about 4:30 a.m., police sources said. According to a close friend and business partner, Susan Shah was suffering from a life-threatening illness, but had been in good spirits recently. News Article Monday, October 11th 2004, 1:29pm EDT Warsaw to host World Sex Championships. Warsaw's right-wing mayor has become embroiled in another battle with the flourishing sex industry in deeply Catholic Poland by attempting to ban a highly-publicized "world sex championships." The organizers of an erotic fair in the Polish capital say they would defy an order from the mayor's office and go ahead and stage a "test" for the woman who can carry out a sex act with as many men as possible. News Article Monday, October 11th 2004, 1:28pm EDT No nude scenes for me, screams Paris Hilton. Hotel heiress Paris Hilton, famous for her amateur porn videos, has ruled out doing nude scenes in the movies even though film directors are expecting her to do so. The "Simple Life" show star is very much hopeful that her upcoming films - "House of Wax" and "National Lampoon's: Pledge This", will establish her credentials as a serious actress. "No way, I would never strip for a movie. I would never do anything like that. I have studied acting for years," femalefirst quoted Paris as saying. News Article Monday, October 11th 2004, 1:27pm EDT China rewards public for reporting pornographic sites. China's police ministry handed out rewards of up to $240 Sunday to people who reported pornographic Web sites in a campaign to stamp out online smut, the government said. Some 445 people have been arrested and 1,125 Web sites shut down with the help of public tips since July, the official Xinhua News Agency reported, citing the Ministry of Public Security. The ministry handed out rewards of $60-$240, Xinhua said, but the number of people who received them was not reported. News Article Monday, October 11th 2004, 1:22pm EDT Early Indicator Points to Biggest AVN Adult Entertainment Expo Ever. The 2005 AVN Adult Entertainment Expo (AEE) has secured its 220th exhibitor, organizers of the show announced today. AEE is sponsored by AVN and presented by Home Entertainment Events (HEE). “Reaching the 200 exhibitor mark at this early date and the addition of 65 new exhibitors indicates that we will have a great Expo in 2005,” said spokesperson Carrie Dieterich. “The combination of the expansion of the B2B Marketplace, the unveiling of the GayVN Expo, and the trade-only first day promise to give the biggest and most diverse AEE ever in 2005. News Article Monday, October 11th 2004, 1:22pm EDT Nations Plan for Net's Future. National governments, with input from nongovernmental organizations, are laying the groundwork for a new internet governance structure. Hosted by the Geneva-based International Telecommunication Union, a United Nations agency, the World Summit on the Information Society, to conclude next year, is an effort to find a common vision for the information society. Naturally, all countries do not share the same ideas about how the internet should develop. But all are coping with the common problems of spam, cybersecurity and the digital divide. Sponsor Monday, October 11th 2004, 1:21pm EDT Herbal Commerce launches new products, lowers prices. Herbal Commerce, a leader in the manufacturing and wholesaling of bulk herbal products, is pleased to announce a brand new and extended product line, along with significantly lower wholesale prices for buyers. The new pricing structure ensures that your costs, as the client, will be lower than any other manufacturer. In addition, you now have the ability to use our blends, with our labels; or, you can choose your own blend and the staff will assist you with designing your own label. Among the products available include: Avitrex (for men) and Levamore (for women), both super vitamins, as wells as Lipitrax cholesterol reducer; sexual enhancement herbals, calming agents, quit smoking aid, appetite suppresants and more. News Bytes Monday, October 11th 2004, 1:19pm EDT India Emerges as Innovation Hub. Generations of Indians have grown up recounting jokes about how the only contribution their nation has made to the world is the invention of zero. Innovation was something other people did. That's no longer the case. At research labs across the country, Indians are creating technologies specifically designed for the nation's multilingual masses and its poor. In doing so, the country is emerging as a research hub for technologies geared to the Third World. While the name Hewlett-Packard reminds many Indians of their temperamental office printers, in HP's research center in Bangalore a team is working on something far nobler. Shekar Borgaonkar and his team are building what they call Script Mail, a device that makes electronic communication easier for people who speak languages that can't be typed on a standard keyboard. News Article Monday, October 11th 2004, 1:18pm EDT International anti-spam enforcement agencies are meeting in London today to work up a joint plan of action for tackling junk mail. The conference is billed as the "first international meeting of spam enforers".Hosted by the OFT (Office of Fair Trading) and the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the talking shop brings together consumer and data protection officers with telecoms execs from more than 20 countries. They are also discussing how to tackle the online fraud and computer viruses. News Article Monday, October 11th 2004, 1:18pm EDT US gov targets spyware outfit. A company which makes software that infiltrates users' computers and demands $30 to be removed has been targeted by US authorities. The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is has asked a federal court to shut down the operations of Seismic Entertainment Productions and SmartBot.Net. The FTC action was initiated after it received a complaint from a Washington consumer group, the Center for Democracy and Technology. This is the first time that the FTC has taken action against a company that produces so-called "spyware". News Bytes Saturday, October 9th 2004, 10:30am EDT The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously. Bush and Kerry tussle over Iraq and economy in second critical debate. News Article Saturday, October 9th 2004, 10:29am EDT Controversial copyright bill dies in Senate. A bill that would make it easier to sue online file-trading networks like Kazaa appeared Friday to have died a quiet death, but other copyright bills sought by the entertainment industry continued to advance. The Senate Judiciary Committee declined late Thursday to take up a bill that would hold liable anyone who "induces" others to reproduce copyrighted material, a move observers said all but assures it would not become law this year.The bill, known as the Induce Act, is designed to target online file-trading networks, which courts have so far shielded from entertainment industry lawsuits on the grounds they do not commit copyright infringement but merely make it possible. News Article Saturday, October 9th 2004, 10:28am EDT Erotic fair to go ahead with sex championship. Organisers of an erotic fair in Poland are to go ahead with a contest to find the world female sex champion despite a local authority ban. The competition will pit three women from Brazil, the US and Poland against each other for the Sex Champion title. Organisers of the Eroticon sex fair are also hoping one of them will break the World Sex Record which currently stands at 759 'humps' - as they describe it. News Article Saturday, October 9th 2004, 10:26am EDT Emmerdale star Patrick Mower made a soft porn movie six years ago, it's emerged. The 63-year-old made the film shortly before landing his soap role as Rodney Blackstock. He plays an 'experienced man' called Andre who has an affair with a young virgin called Lola, says The Sun. In the main scene, leering Patrick towels down naked Lola - and then ogles her boobs in close-up. The Italian film, called Frivolous Lola, features plenty of bedroom scenes - but no full sex. News Article Saturday, October 9th 2004, 10:25am EDT Canada unveils "world's toughest" child porn laws. Canada has unveiled what it promises will be the world's toughest laws against child pornography, but opposition parties say the draft legislation contains dangerous loopholes. Justice Minister Irwin Cotler said the bill would broaden the definition of child pornography, increase sentences for owning offensive material and restrict the circumstances under which a person would be allowed to possess child pornography. "This will give us the most comprehensive child protection regime of any country in the world," he told reporters onFriday. Cotler brushed off opposition demands for a total ban on possession of child pornography, saying this would conflict with Canada's charter of human rights and freedoms. The proposed law would only allow possession if it had "a legitimate purpose related to the administration of justice, or to science, medicine, education or art" and did not pose an undue risk of harming children. News Article Saturday, October 9th 2004, 10:24am EDT Dot Info adds a million names in less than a week! Recent registration numbers for Dot Info are huge. But most of the names seem to be coming from the same registrar: eNom. How are they doing it? Last month, Dot Info registry Afilias launched a special promotion. Participating registrars get free Dot Info names for four months (the promotions ends December 31th). There is a 25 name limit per registrant, which it's up to the registrar to enforce, and the promotion is only valid on new one-year registrations. Since the start of the promotion, we've been monitoring Dot Info's registration volumes. Early last week, the numbers were looking good. Dot Info gained around 36,000 names last Tuesday, more than Dot Com for that day. Impressive as beating the Internet's star domain may be, there was a lot better to come for Dot Info. Towards the end of last week, we noticed volumes suddenly start to go stratospheric. More than 300,000 names in a single day before the week was out and then, during the weekend, in excess of 600,000 names! By our count, Dot Info has now added close to a million new names. That's an almost 100% increase since our last count . News Article Saturday, October 9th 2004, 10:23am EDT Find the Web's Worst Security Flaws. IT security and research organization The SANS Institute is releasing its annual Top 20 list of Internet security vulnerabilities this week, with the intention of offering organizations at least a starting point for addressing critical issues. "When you tell your systems people to test for thousands of vulnerabilities, your enterprise comes to a stop. What the Top 20 does is give you a place to start your remediation each year," says SANS Director Alan Paller. The SANS list is compiled from recommendations by leading security researchers and companies around the world, from institutes such as the National Infrastructure Protection Center and the U.K.'s National Infrastructure Security Coordination Centre. News Article Saturday, October 9th 2004, 10:22am EDT Expert: Online extortion growing more common. Online extortion is rife and that cybercrime is set to get worse, the SANS Institute's research director said Friday. "Six or seven thousand organizations are paying online extortion demands," Alan Paller said at the SANS Institute's Top 20 Vulnerabilities conference in London. "The epidemic of cybercrime is growing. You don't hear much about it because it's extortion, and people feel embarrassed to talk about it." The SANS Institute, based in Bethesda, Md., offers training and resources related to information security. "Every online gambling site is paying extortion," Paller asserted. "Hackers use DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks, using botnets to do it. Then they say, 'Pay us $40,000, or we'll do it again.'" News Article Saturday, October 9th 2004, 10:21am EDT Mainstream Media Raise Issue of Adult Performer Health and Safety. A letter encouraging the use of condoms that was sent to over 400 Adult production companies by the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services (LAC DHS) earlier this week has made national headlines this morning, raising the profile of an aspect of the Adult industry most insiders would apparently prefer was ignored. Dr. Jonathan Fielding, director of the LAC DHS, authored the letter, which endorsed a set of protocols that the LAC DHS developed based on its investigation of health and safety factors within the Adult industry that began during the HIV outbreak earlier this year. News Article Saturday, October 9th 2004, 10:21am EDT Major movie studios and record labels on Friday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the Grokster decision, which had absolved peer-to-peer networks of responsibility when their users download copyright material without permission. The petitioners have long wanted to shut down services such as Grokster and Morpheus because they enable consumers to download copyright files. But in August, a federal appeals court upheld an April 2003 U.S. District Court decision that these services should not be held liable for the illegal behavior of their users. News Article Saturday, October 9th 2004, 10:19am EDT Curtain Call for Junk-Fax Blaster. Fax machines around the country observed a moment of silence this week after a federal court issued an order Tuesday against the nation's most notorious junk-fax blaster, Fax.com, prohibiting the company and its surrogates from spamming fax machines across the country. The decision, issued as a temporary injunction rather than a permanent order, likely spells the end to Fax.com. The court order states that the company agreed to comply with the terms, ruling out the possibility of appeal. News Bytes Friday, October 8th 2004, 12:14pm EDT The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously British Hostage Beheaded in Iraq, Video Shows. News Article Friday, October 8th 2004, 12:13pm EDT Google Updates PageRank again. Internet Forums and IRC Channels have been busy discussing and speculating reports over a new GoogleBot, which began appearing sometime back in website logs. This came in addition to another observation, which confirmed that Google was no longer updating PageRank of websites. Finally, the trends have changed and reports of updated PageRank are beginning to appear online again. It took almost 4 months for this update unlike monthly updates that used to happen. Google PageRank for the uninitiated is one of the many factors Google use to rank a webpage. This in turn decides on how much relevance that page gets and how much higher it is in Google searches. News Article Friday, October 8th 2004, 12:12pm EDT Ashcroft Announces ‘Most Aggressive’ Crackdown On Intellectual Property Theft. Attorney General John Ashcroft said the U.S. Justice Department is about to launch the most aggressive crackdown on intellectual property theft online and off. Ashcroft spoke October 6 to a New York conference of prosecutors specializing in computer crime, saying his department's attack against intellectual property theft "must be as forceful and aggressive and successful as our response to terrorism and violent crime and drugs and corruption has been." Sponsor Friday, October 8th 2004, 12:11pm EDT CSWCash announces a slew of new changes. 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