Twitter users reveal personal information in latest 'trend' for 'porn names' 

Twitter users reveal personal information in latest 'trend' for 'porn names'

In Messaging - By Dan Raywood, 13 May 2009 10:46 AM
Many users of micro-blogging website Twitter have inadvertently shared personal information via a new trending topic.
Office staff admit to watching porn and being drunk while at work 

Office staff admit to watching porn and being drunk while at work

In Risk - By Dan Raywood, 30 January 2009 3:21 PM
A third of staff have admitted to watching pornography on their computer in the office, while more than a half claimed to have been drunk at work.
Paedophile internet ‘librarian’ jailed indefinitely 

Paedophile internet ‘librarian’ jailed indefinitely

In Hackers - By Iain Thomson, 19 August 2008 11:32 AM
A 27-year-old British man has been jailed indefinitely for acting as an online librarian for a child pornography win.
iPhone porn on the up 

iPhone porn on the up

In Web/client - By Iain Thomson, 23 June 2008 10:33 AM
The market for mobile pornography is set to experience strong growth according to industry insiders.
French Government decides to censor the Internet 

French Government decides to censor the Internet

In Hackers - By Sylvie Barak, 11 June 2008 10:16 AM
The French government has decided that it would like to censor the Internet.
Civil servant gets through porn like lightning 

Civil servant gets through porn like lightning

By INQUIRER Newsdesk, 5 May 2008 10:31 AM
Japanese bloke clocks up 10,000 pages per day
Infosec: More travel sites blocked than porn sites 

Infosec: More travel sites blocked than porn sites

In Risk - By Iain Thomson, 23 April 2008 9:52 AM
Companies that limit employee use of the internet are more likely to block travel and social networking sites than porn sites, according to a report released today at Infosec ...
Remote workers more likely to visit porn sites 

Remote workers more likely to visit porn sites

By Guy Dixon, 18 April 2008 1:32 PM
Remote employees visit sex websites two and a half times as often as their office-based colleagues and are more likely to push their surfing habits into the realm of the ...
Users tricked by promise of celebrity porn 

Users tricked by promise of celebrity porn

In Messaging - By Shaun Nichols, 14 February 2008 8:10 AM
Malware distributors are using a fabricated sex scandal to push their wares, according to security researchers..
Popular porn site hacked by prudes 

Popular porn site hacked by prudes

In Web/client - By Iain Thomson, 7 February 2008 9:39 AM
Hackers yesterday shut down one of the most popular porn sites on the internet..
Facebook sues Canadian porn company over alleged hacking 

Facebook sues Canadian porn company over alleged hacking

In Hackers - By Frank Washkuch, 18 December 2007 9:33 AM
Social networking giant Facebook has sued an Ontario-based company associated with online porn, alleging that it tried to hack into its system and access the personal informatio...
Child porn hacker sentenced to 110 years in prison 

Child porn hacker sentenced to 110 years in prison

In Hackers - By Dan Kaplan, 4 December 2007 10:44 AM
A North Carolina man was sentenced to more than a century in prison after he seeded teens' computers with trojans and then demanded the victims provide him with nude photographs...
US porn spammers sent down 

US porn spammers sent down

In Hackers - By Clement James, 16 October 2007 10:03 AM
Two US men have been sentenced to more than five years in prison for organising and running an international pornographic spamming business that netted over US$1m.
Porn still common on corporate networks 

Porn still common on corporate networks

In Web/client - By Negar Salek, 4 September 2007 10:51 AM
Local security reseller applauds the Government’s NetAlert security program but warns illicit content still trickles onto PCs through USB sticks and camera phones at home and ...
Two porn spammers convicted on several charges 

Two porn spammers convicted on several charges

In Messaging - By Dan Kaplan, 27 June 2007 11:13 AM
Two 41-year-old men were convicted Monday for their connection to a global mass pornographic spamming operation that resulted in hundreds of thousands of complaints from AOL ...
Global online child porn ring smashed  

Global online child porn ring smashed

In Hackers - 19 June 2007 10:00 AM
Four Australians arrested and a further two people are facing court after an international operation.
Hackers spread child porn through message boards 

Hackers spread child porn through message boards

In Networks - By Fiona Raisbeck, 13 June 2007 9:39 AM
Hackers have spread child pornography by infecting online message boards, experts claim.
OpenOffice worm downloads bunny porn 

OpenOffice worm downloads bunny porn

In Web/client - By Robert Jaques, 23 May 2007 10:38 AM
A newly-discovered worm targeting OpenOffice attempts to download indecent JPEG images onto compromised Windows, Mac and Linux PCs.
Child porn suspects may have been fraud victims 

Child porn suspects may have been fraud victims

In Risk - By Fiona Raisbeck, 11 May 2007 9:44 AM
Hundreds of people questioned by police as part of an internet child pornography inquiry may have been innocent victims of credit card fraud, an investigation has found.
Germans track child porn in Second Life 

Germans track child porn in Second Life

In Web/client - By Matt Chapman, 10 May 2007 2:07 PM
Virtual sex with minors and real child pornography images being traded.
Spam emails push porn Trojan 

Spam emails push porn Trojan

In Messaging - By Iain Thomson, 27 March 2007 11:45 AM
Experts are warning of new emails being spammed out purporting to offer recipients free access to pornography.
Man sues Microsoft over porn surfing history 

Man sues Microsoft over porn surfing history

In Hackers - By Iain Thomson, 6 March 2007 10:21 AM
PC fails to keep suspect's Internet Explorer history secret.
Connecticut teacher convicted on school porn charge a victim of spyware 

Connecticut teacher convicted on school porn charge a victim of spyware

By Dan Kaplan, 28 February 2007 5:01 PM
The scheduled sentencing Friday for a Connecticut substitute teacher convicted of exposing her middle-school students to pop-up internet pornography has been postponed so the ...
US Judge sentenced to prison for child porn 

US Judge sentenced to prison for child porn

In Hackers - By Ericka Chickowski, 22 February 2007 10:32 PM
A former judge was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison on Tuesday for possession of child pornography that was initially found by a Canadian hacker vigilante who tipped ...
Malicious image spam entices users with soft porn 

Malicious image spam entices users with soft porn

By Ericka Chickowski, 30 August 2006 10:32 PM
Hackers are taking advantage of image spam techniques and lusty minds to spread a new Trojan horse, experts at SophosLabs warned today.
Unlucky 13 sacked by Merrill Lynch over porn 

Unlucky 13 sacked by Merrill Lynch over porn

By René Millman, 27 June 2006 11:21 AM
U.S. financial giant Merrill Lynch dismissed 13 staff members at its Dublin office after they had sent pornographic material through the company email system. This followed the ...
DVLA sacks fourteen over porn emails 

DVLA sacks fourteen over porn emails

By René Millman, 22 June 2006 3:45 PM
Fourteen people have been sacked from the U.K.'s Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) in Swansea after sending pornographic email attachments to each other and people ...
U.K. clamps down on online child porn  

U.K. clamps down on online child porn

By William Eazel, 8 March 2006 9:34 AM
The number of web-based child abuse images hosted from U.K. servers has plummeted from 18 percent of all child abuse images found on the internet in 1997 to just 0.4 percent ...
Porn spammer faces five years behind bars  

Porn spammer faces five years behind bars

By William Eazel, 2 February 2006 3:02 PM
A U.S. individual faces up to five years in prison after pleading guilty to charges of aiding and abetting the sending of spam containing graphic pornographic images.
Half-million PCs infected by porn worm 

Half-million PCs infected by porn worm

By Frank Washkuch, 23 January 2006 9:26 PM
More than 500,000 PCs have been infected by the Nyxem worm, which is set to enter its next stage on Feb. 3.
Porn worm disables security tools  

Porn worm disables security tools

By William Eazel, 19 January 2006 9:43 AM
Security experts have warned users to be wary of unsolicited emails claiming to contain obscene pictures and sex movies. The Nyxem-D worm (also known as Email-Worm.Win32.VB.bi ...
Sober turns in child porn owner 

Sober turns in child porn owner

By William Eazel, 21 December 2005 2:04 PM
An alleged German child porn offender has turned himself in to authorities after mistaking an email sent by the Sober computer worm as an official warning that he was being ...
FTC takes action against illegal porn spam 

FTC takes action against illegal porn spam

By Marcia Savage, 20 July 2005 6:00 PM
The Federal Trade Commission has charged seven companies with violating federal laws requiring warning labels on sexually-explicit email.
Company porn creates regulatory nightmare 

Company porn creates regulatory nightmare

By David Quainton, 19 July 2005 11:37 AM
IT directors are putting businesses at financial risk by not enforcing regulation linked to porn prevention in the workplace.
Celebrity porn virus targets Microsoft 

Celebrity porn virus targets Microsoft

By René Millman, 31 March 2005 4:41 PM
Celebrity-obsessed internet users are being targeted by a new worm that tries to launch a Denial of Service (DoS) attack on Microsoft's Windows Update website.
UK watchdog cuts off UK porn and rogue diallers  

UK watchdog cuts off UK porn and rogue diallers

By Robert Jaques, 22 October 2004 11:05 AM
ICSTIS, the UK's premium rate services regulator, will cut off any such services found to be operating without its permission. After the clampdown unlicensed dialler service ...
China clamps down on Internet porn 

China clamps down on Internet porn

By Melissa Loveday, 9 September 2004 5:17 PM
The Chinese government is increasing its crackdown on internet pornography by threatening culprits with life imprisonment.
Britons fear porn could lose them their jobs 

Britons fear porn could lose them their jobs

By Dan Ilett, 31 August 2004 3:40 PM
More than a third of British adults - 37 per cent - are worried they could lose their jobs through accidentally accessing porn over the internet.
BT blocks child porn 

BT blocks child porn

By Dan Ilett, 7 June 2004 3:57 PM
British Telecom is to block thousands of its users from accessing child pornography websites.
BT blocks child porn 

BT blocks child porn

By Dan Ilett, 7 June 2004 3:56 PM
British Telecom is to block thousands of its users from accessing child pornography websites.
Irish bank chief quits over internet porn 

Irish bank chief quits over internet porn

By Dan Ilett, 3 June 2004 3:52 PM
The Bank of Ireland’s chief executive has resigned after IT staff found he was using his computer to access pornographic websites.
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