NEW YORK, NY – According to a private-placement notice filed with the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) last week, Penthouse Media Group Inc. has raised $15 million in preferred stock and $33 million in bonds, part of which will be used to fund a broadcast network to compete...

SAN JOSE, CA – In a security advisory issued Wednesday, Cisco Systems reported a vulnerability in their Internetwork Operating System, which could be exploited to run code remotely on devices that the IOS.“The Cisco IOS Firewall Authentication Proxy for FTP and/or Telnet Sessions...

NEW YORK CITY – Forty-six-year-old Manhattan-based Dr. Khaled Zeitoun seemed like the perfect match for Tiffany Wang. In fact, after the two had met online via a singles website in March 2001, the romantic Zeitoun told Wang that the two had been married in a previous life....

CYBERSPACE – On the eve of the beta release of FireFox 1.5, a security researcher announced that he has located a new security flaw affecting all versions of the browser, putting a bit of a damper on the Mozilla Foundation’s much-anticipated 1.5 beta release Thursday.In the...

CANOGA PARK, CA – The Free Speech Coalition is commencing a letter-writing campaign in opposition to the creation of a .XXX top-level domain. A pre-written letter is available on the Free Speech Coalition Website, at www.freespeechcoalition.com/xinfo.htm, where one can go to...

CYBERSPACE – The accusation made by Reporters Without Borders against internet search giant Yahoo! is strong: “It is one thing to turn a blind eye to Chinese government abuses but it is quite another thing to collaborate.”At issue is information provided to the Chinese...

AUSTIN, TX – Brandon Shalton seems an unlikely defender of pornography. Yet, in spite of being a red state technology provider and consultant, he has long been an advocate for two things: child protection and the online adult industry’s responsible professional development....

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM – Microsoft Corp. has filed a second appeal seeking annulment of a European Union decision which ordered the company to share code with open-source companies and software developers, company officials announced today.According to Microsoft spokesman Tom Brookes,...

LOS ANGELES, CA – YNOT has learned that the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) is investigating another possible ‘Tracy Lords situation’ in the adult industry; an underage model performing under the name ‘Seduction’ and ‘Chantae’ allegedly appeared in...

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – In a legal battle that originated nearly three years ago, an Australian court ruled on Monday that the directors of peer-to-peer file sharing software Kazaa had violated Australian music copyrights and “authorized users to infringe” on music copyrights, and...