Child porn threat to betting site
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Criminals threaten to send out a flood of child pornography e-mails purporting to come from UK gambling website Blue Square.
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A security company has identified a Trojan horse program that replaces Google text advertisements on Web pages with ads from another source, depriving Google of revenue and potentially causing problems for end users.Google may be powerless to stop the trick since it involves the modification of an internal PC file, called the hosts file, that is used to match domain names of Web sites with IP (Internet protocol) addresses, said Romanian security company BitDefender.When a person visits a Web site, the browser checks the hosts file to see if it has an IP address for a particular domain name. If the hosts file is corrupted or hijacked, the browser can be directed to fetch a different Web page than the one the user intended to.Modifying the hosts file can be done for legitimate reasons. For example, PC users can change the hosts to block banner ads served from known ad networks. When a Web page tries to contact an ad server, the request is diverted by the hosts file and no ad appears.BitDefender said in an advisory this particular malware directs a browser to download advertisements from a different server than Google&#39;s ad server.BitDefender named the malware Trojan.Qhost.WU and said it is not spreading fast and poses a &quot;medium&quot; risk of damage. It did not say how the Trojan is being circulated, and company representatives did not return a call for comment.Besides costing Google ad revenue, there is a danger that those replacement advertisements could contain links to sites with malicious software, BitDefender said. Web site owners who buy ads through Google, as well as Google itself, can lose out on both Web traffic and revenue if people are diverted from its ads.There is not much that Google can do for those who download the malware. However, security products such as BitDefender&#39;s can detect and remove it.Without commenting on the Trojan specifically, Google said it removes Web sites from its search index that contain malware.&quot;We have canceled customer accounts that display ads re-directing users to malicious sites or that advertise a product violating our software principles,&quot; the company said in a statement.
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Funny money no longer such a joke House of Cards Although the Chinese government recently announced a purifying moratorium on internet cafes â the same week the Communist Youth League penned a contract with leading gaming developer Playtech to provide software for large scale internet-based gambling tournaments â the cadres in Beijing know that internet cafes are only an embodiment of something much larger and more threatening, according to the Financial Times.â¦
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A Conservative party association in the small Welsh town of Delyn is trying to buy back its Web site domain name after it was taken over by pornographers.
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TechWeb - The popular social networking site is taking steps to protect its young users.
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Dark clouds are gathering over the local blogosphere. First there were "splog" attacks, pieces of spam left in the comments area of local blogs. That was kids' stuff. Now it appears that at least two blogs in the western suburbs have become victims of a new, scarier menace: blogjacking.
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By Kyle Hopkins, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Jun. 2--Around the country, cops without borders scour the Internet for people who trade child pornography the way others swap baseball cards.
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Losing execs and share price Authorities in Louisiana are warning executives working for online gaming companies to stay away from the state or risk arrest.â¦
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The growing popularity of online gaming could spell problems for net service firms, warns network monitoring company Sandvine. It issued the warning following analysis which shows that Traffic on the Xbox
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By Charles Keeshan  ckeeshan@@dailyherald.com  Authorities arrested a 16-year-old Cary boy accused of sending a threatening message and graphic images of mutilated genitalia to a female acquaintance through the social networking Web site MySpace.
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By DAVID GREENWOOD A LUXURY North Wales holiday farmhouse owner last night called for an investigation after a website promoting the business was hijacked to sell porn. Helen Thomas is the wife of an Anglesey councillor responsible for planning and tourism.
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By Fadhal Ilahi Abd Ghani  SUBANG JAYA: There's a new way to avoid the detection of illegal online gambling at cybercafes - a one-touch button that can erase or change computer screens whenever authorities step into the outlets.
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Blog: The New York Times reports that the live video chat Web site Stickam.com has corporate ties with a pornography producer.  As this story begins to unfold, Stickam's practices alone raise serious child abuse concerns.
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An invitation to chat by Webcam could come with malicious code.
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As if porn sites and pedophiles in chat rooms weren&#039;t frustrating enough for parents whose children use the Internet, now online postings of amateur video featuring skin and violence are raising concerns. The explosion in online video-sharing sites, where clips of any nature can be easily uploaded for the world to see, has become the latest challenge for parents trying to protect their children and for Web sites coping with obscene submittals.
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By David Crow  With adults and teenagers increasingly well catered for by social networking sites, children are the new growth market. But with the danger of online fraudsters and, even more disturbingly, paedophiles, the industry has to move carefully.
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Malicious hackers tout a site with an strip show download to entice victims to download malware.