NEEDHAM, MA – Massachusetts based software firm GeoTrust plan to launch a toolbar and search site that will alert users when they are visiting web sites that may be fraudulent or otherwise untrustworthy.The TrustWatch Toolbar and TrustWatch Search site, which will both be...

CYBERSPACE – According to a report issued by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) in conjunction with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), advertisers spent $5.8 billion dollars placing online ads through the end of June 2005, an increase of over 25 percent in comparison with the...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – In a case that will test the limits of consumer-protection laws, MasterCard International Inc. and Visa USA Inc. are headed to San Francisco Superior Court to assess whether the companies are obligated to notify more than a quarter million customers that a...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – In response to recently revealed security flaws, the Mozilla Foundation has released Firefox 1.0.7, a new version of the browser which contains fixes for two critical vulnerabilities.Released Wednesday morning, the new version of Firefox addresses a problem...

CYBERSPACE – Anti-virus software vendor F-Secure has identified a new trojan, based on the Symbian platform, which also attempts to infect PCs when users try to read their phone’s memory card on their computers.“SymbOS/Cardtrap.A is otherwise unremarkable Symbian trojan,”...

The creative pornographer knows that smut is all around. There are very few things in life that are so boring or so taboo that two or more mutually consenting adults can’t find a way to turn them into a sex game. The challenge for industry professionals is sometimes to...

CYBERSPACE – Matthew Collins knows that making money as an adult webmaster can be a confusing process. That’s why the president of RevShareHosting.com makes sure that his company doesn’t make things more baffling than absolutely necessary.”We do a lot of...

NEW YORK, NY – The Author’s Guild Inc., along with former New York Times writer Herbert Mitgang, children’s book author Betty Miles, and poet Daniel Hoffman, has filed a lawsuit with the U.S. District Court in Manhattan, accusing Google of “massive copyright...

Adult webmasters and those whose sites could hardly be called pornographic but contain mature subject matter have long known that PayPal can and does arbitrarily freeze accounts, often providing next to no information about why. But when Rich Kyanka’s PayPal account was flagged...

Cupertino, CA- Leading internet security watchdog Symantec has issued a report showing that Mozilla browsers, including the latest, patched version of FireFox, contain more vulnerabilities than Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. The company’s report also shows, however, that IE...