Google sued over child porn payments
Google is being sued in the US by a politician who believes that the company is profiting from child pornography. Jeffrey Toback, a Democratic Party member of the Nassau County Legislature, has fil
World Cup wall chart hides Trojan
A new Trojan was spammed out last night posing as a free wall chart that lets users track their team"s progress in the World Cup finals. The Haxdoor-IN Trojan arrives as an attachment in an email c
Censors crack down on bloggers and surfers
Repressive regimes are increasingly highlighting blogs and websites as a threat to be shut down or censored, according to the annual report (PDF 1.36MB) from Reporters Without Borders (RSF) publishe
Modders add porn scenes to PC game
A PC_nbsp;game has had its age rating raised by the Electronic Software Ratings Board (ESRB) after a player created an "adult" modification. Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion was upgraded from "Teen" to "
Virus emails drop to record low
The number of emails carrying viruses has plummeted to fewer than one per cent of all messages sent, according to the April virus trends report from BlackSpider Technologies._nbsp; The total number
Alumni fume at privacy gaffe
EMAIL gremlins are causing embarrassment at Macquarie University, with graduates up in arms after the university accidentally sent 25,000 email addresses to its alumni mailing list. In what would have to be one of the worst email privacy breaches in...
Security officials say computer drive lost at Portland airport
Federal Homeland Security officials say a computer storage device that may have held personal information on current and former employees has been lost. "We"re relatively confident that thing got scraped into the trash, and it"s gone," said Mike Irwin, fe...