SAN DIEGO, Calif. – Ninety-five percent of user comments on blogs, message boards and chat rooms are spam or contain links to malicious code, according to a new report from Websense Security Labs.The bi-annual research report, “Websense Security Labs, State of Internet Security,...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – “Public morality can still serve as a legitimate rational basis for regulating commercial activity, which is not a private activity,” the Alabama Supreme Court ruled Friday in upholding a state law that prohibits the sale of sex toys except in demonstrable...

BOSTON – Residents of the U.S. capital and southern boys rose to the challenge during a recent compilation of penis size data undertaken by gay social-networking site Manhunt.net. Turns out the biggest pricks really are in Washington, DC, followed closely by New York,...

CYBERSPACE – If you build it, porn will come. That’s the message digital security firms are spreading these days.Once upon a time, porn spam overflowed email inboxes. Today — thanks in part to anti-spam laws and domain blacklisting, but mostly to spam’s ineffectiveness as a...

CYBERSPACE – Technology moves so rapidly that sometimes it’s difficult to stay several steps ahead; but HDPays.com is doing what it can to be an industry leader in adopting new technologies, and they’re doing it by promoting two tech trends that are still on an upswing....

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Here’s something that ought to generate some fairly intense scrutiny from Microsoft Corp.’s crack legal team: A company that describes itself as a manufacturer of integrated circuitry has filed for a trademark on “SexBox.”According to the application, filed in...

VAN NUYS, Calif. – In one of those heart-warming moments when love and respect push aside recrimination and hateful rhetoric, a conservative political action committee on Wednesday named a porn company president “Entrepreneur of the Year.”Oops. On Friday, the PAC rescinded the...

LONDON – Respected financial newsweekly The Economist leads the “United States” section of its Sept. 12 issue with the startling revelation Los Angeles’ adult entertainment industry “is among the worst hit by the recession.”Entitled “The Trouble with Pornography,” the article...

CYBERSPACE – Do you like to write sexy columns or erotic stories but get tried of being rejected by mainstream sites because of sexually explicit content? One adult company is trying to do something about that, launching a simple publishing service for explicit articles and...

ISTANBUL, TURKEY – In a bizarre case that illustrates the dangers of working with unknown entities, a group of nine young women aged 16-24 were reportedly duped into what they thought was an appearance on a Turkish “reality” show, when in fact they were being secretly...