general internet news - 12 February

uk: Charity claims net sex abuse up
More children are being sexually abused via the internet,
with some forced to take part in live sex shows, the
charity Barnardo's has warned.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3473193.stm

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/story.jsp?story=490055
 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1-996290,00.html

http://www.femail.co.uk/pages/standard/article.html?in_article_id=207734

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/02/10/1076175153376.html

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=4321983

http://www.barnardos.org.uk/newsandevents/media/press/release.jsp?id=1470
(news release)
 http://www.barnardos.org.uk/media/click.jsp (report)

uk: Police 'failing web child sex victims'
Hundreds of British children are being left to suffer
sexual abuse because police efforts to tackle internet
paedophiles are "completely inadequate", according to the
former head of a special crime squad that pioneered
investigations into online child sex offences.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1144570,00.html

uk: Punish online customers like abusers, conference urged
People who download child abuse images from the internet
should face the same punishment as those who produce the
material and abuse the victims, an adult survivor of child
sex abuse said.

http://society.guardian.co.uk/children/story/0,1074,1145071,00.html

uk: Fewer children become regular chat users
Fewer children are becoming regular users of chat rooms,
according to the interim results of a year-long study into
young people's behaviour online. The University of
Lancashire's Cyberspace Research Unit found that the number
of primary school children becoming regular chat users
dipped last year compared with 2002.
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/35414.html

uk: Executive deaf to call for internet porn study
Urgent calls for a renewed study into links between on-line
pornography and violent crime were dismissed by the
Scottish Executive last night, a day after the conviction
of an internet-obsessed Scot for murder.
 http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=145102004

uk: BT launches 'internet green cross code'
An electronic green cross code, providing advice on how to
safely use the internet, was launched today by British
Telecom in a bid to improve public awareness of the risks
posed by paedophiles online.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/child/story/0,7369,1144902,00.html
Internet green cross code

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Society/documents/2004/02/09/1003InternetGreenXCode.pdf

us: National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
Announces Dramatic Increase in Reports of Child Sexual
Exploitation - Up 750 Percent in Five Year Period
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
(NCMEC) today announced that reports of child sexual
exploitation are at an all time high.  Over the past five
years reports to its CyberTipline, a congressionally
mandated tipline and website for reporting these crimes,
have increased 750 percent.

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/02-09-2004/0002105294&EDATE=

http://www.pnnonline.org/article.php?sid=4992&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

VeriSign works to ID kid surfers
VeriSign plans to unveil on Wednesday a digital identity
program for school-age children, which it says will bolster
online safety for the growing number of young Web surfers.
 http://news.com.com/2100-1029_3-5156982.html

eu: CONFERENCE - Internet with a human face - a common
responsibility: "Confronting the challenges of today to
prepare Europe for tomorrow"
European forum on Safer Internet: Internet use has come to
influence virtually all aspects of our daily life. It is a
development, however, that has brought with it a certain
number of problems. Increasingly we are faced with issues
such as unsuitable, unreliable and illegal content,
protection of human rights and more particularly children’s
rights and personal privacy, as well as issues related to
hacking, spam and viruses. Although these unwanted
phenomena affect us all, they are a matter of even more
serious concern given the growing use of Internet by minors
and adolescents. This European forum offers an opportunity
to exchange experiences and best practices as well as ideas
and opinions on Safer Internet, all with the aim of
creating a pan-European platform for stakeholders that seek
to make the Internet a safer place.
 http://www.safer-internet.net/pconference.asp

eu: The Greek hotline Safeline joins INHOPE and the NCMEC,
USA and the StopIT, Italy hotline become full members (news
release)
 http://www.inhope.org/english/news/20040204.htm

au: Net usage policy critical to not get court in the act
Late last year, Australia Post sacked an employee, several
others resigned and more still were counselled regarding
pornographic emails flying around the network. An internal
investigation did not uncover any breach of criminal codes,
so police weren't involved but there was a clear breach of
Australia Post's own code of ethics, which is actively
enforced by the enterprise.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/02/09/1076175091276.html

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/02/09/1076175091276.html

nz: Offensive spam may spark lawsuits
IT law specialist Michael Wigley agrees with mail
filtering-company executives that companies could find
themselves landed with lawsuits for not taking due care to
filter emails that prove offensive to employees.

http://www.computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/UNID/5D897F828DC204C3CC256E35006C95AE

uk: Police look at student's bid to auction virginity on
website
Police are said to be examining whether a student who has
auctioned her virginity on the internet is breaking the
law.
 http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_864581.html

us: Porn site Whitehouse.com up for sale
Whitehouse.com, the pornographic Web site that features
nubile "interns" rather than middle-aged presidents, has
announced that its domain name is up for sale.

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=4331531

us: Federal agents arrest Fla. man in child-sex case
They say Dennis DelPriore, 43, traveled to N.J. for sex
with a Hainesport girl, 13, he met online.
 http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/7915310.htm

us: Inmate Charged With Possessing Child Porn
An inmate currently serving time for rape in Suffolk County
faces new charges in neighboring Nassau County that he
possessed child pornography.

http://1010wins.com/topstories/winstopstories_story_041114034.html

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-liporn0210,0,923441.story

us: Cyberstalker just out of reach of law, but finally, he
stops
When Joelle Ligon found her first love at age 15, she could
not have known that her teenage romance would morph more
than a decade later into a malevolent force relentlessly
stalking her from cyberspace.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/160201_cyberstalking11.html

us: Ill. Police Find Major Child-Porn Ring
Soon after a 13-year-old runaway told police she had posed
for pornography in a ramshackle apartment, police knocked
on its rickety door. What they found inside stopped them
cold.

http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/content/news/ap/ap_story.html/National/AP.V5877.AP-Child-Porn-Ring.html

Paris Hilton Sues Over Internet Sex Tape
Reality TV star Paris Hilton has sued a Panama-based
Internet company for $30 million, claiming that it
illegally distributed a now-infamous tape of her having sex
with an ex-boyfriend.
 http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;?storyID=4304574

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/02/09/paris.lawsuit.reut/index.html

us: N.J. legislators catching up with high-tech criminals
When it comes to the Internet, Assemblyman Frank Blee
admits he cannot keep up with his fifth-grader - and it
scares him. "Kids are growing up in the technology age,"
said Blee, R-Atlantic. "In the old days, you could let your
kids run around in the back yard. Now kids use the
Internet, which opens the child to the world. But not
everything in the world is good."

http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/newjersey/020804CATCHUP.html

au: Australia leads cyber crackdown
Australia is leading a global sweep of the internet in a
major crackdown on scam sites.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,8640120%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

http://www.itnews.com.au/storycontent.asp?ID=12&Art_ID=18264

http://www.itechnology.co.za/index.php?click_id=115&art_id=qw1076395321101B223

nz: False ads on the 'net targeted
The Commerce Commission is taking part in an international
crackdown on false internet advertising and is warning
offenders they could be in for big fines.

http://onenews.nzoom.com/onenews_detail/0,1227,254251-1-454,00.html

us: Scam Alert: Child Porn E-Mail Seeks Credit Info
We've all received e-mails that try to extract personal
information, but a new scam is different and shocking.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ibsys/20040209/lo_wesh/1999983

Protect Your Children When They're Online
The most critical component of children's online safety is
parental involvement. The best method of protecting
children online is for parents to stay involved in their
online activities.
 http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/2828758/detail.html

Cell Phone Cameras Become Popular, but Controversial Trend
In the fast-changing world of consumer technology, one of
the newest and hottest trends is "cellphonography," or
taking photographs on your handheld wireless cellular
telephone. Like flying cars, picture phones have been the
stuff of science fiction and spy movies. But the future is
now for digital camera phones.
 http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/?articleID=3927

au: Filtering Kazaa 'impossible' - Sharman
Sharman Networks says it cannot differentiate between
copyright-infringing and legitimate file-sharing on its
network.

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/0,39020645,39145657,00.htm

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,8641545%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html
 http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,62232,00.html
 http://www.arnnet.com.au/index.php?id=1821940723

Programmer Sets Up Mask for File-Sharers
Wyatt Wasicek was so outraged by the recording industry's
legal assault on users of free music-downloading sites that
he decided to ride to the rescue. He created a program
called AnonX that masks the Internet address of people who
use file-sharing programs such as Kazaa.

http://www.jg-tc.com/articles/2004/02/10/ap/HiTech/d80ks2ng0.txt

EU debate to take up P-to-P filesharing
Sharing music over the Internet could become a criminal
offense if some members of the European Parliament get
their way in a debate next week. The Parliament is set to
debate a draft law designed to stamp out mass pirating and
counterfeiting of digital products such as music and
movies.

http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/02/06/HNeuptopdebate_1.html

au: E-drug deals: part of the Wild West world of e-commerce
Cyberdrugs will only take off if there is a significant
price advantage over that on the black market

http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/180_03_020204/gij10849_fm-1.html

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/02/02/1075570327056.html

au: Internet probe highlights scammers
An international investigation of Internet scams has
identified 57 suspicious websites in Victoria.
 http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1042310.htm

nz: Kiwis 'have weakness for internet scams'
New Zealand has joined an international internet crackdown
designed to combat the growing number of online scams.
 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2811488a28,00.html

nz: Commerce watchdog to assess website listings business
A new marketing tactic from online directory National
Business Online may test the legal boundaries of
unsolicited invoicing.
 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3547021

us: FBI, local agencies target cybercrime
The FBI and local law enforcement agencies are teaming up
to tackle what is quickly becoming a misdeed of choice in
the Baton Rouge area -- cybercrimes.

http://www.2theadvocate.com/stories/020904/new_cybercrime001.shtml

VeriSign says online fraud growing fast
A report released Monday by VeriSign, the company that
maintains the Internet's .com and .net domain registry,
indicates that attempted site hacks, online fraud and
identity theft are growing rapidly, as e-commerce
proliferates.

http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/0,2000061744,39116043,00.htm

Hi-tech police to join new UK force
The National Hi-Tech Crime Unit has a part to play in the
government's plans to fight crime in the twenty-first
century.
 http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39145910,00.htm

us: Privacy reduction's next act
The U.S. Congress is hard at work trying to punish Internet
users who value their privacy. That's not how Capitol Hill
politicians describe a new bill introduced last week, of
course, but that's what it would accomplish if it becomes
law.
 http://news.com.com/2010-1028-5155054.html

au: IIA launches national virus protection scheme
11/02/2004 07:30:29
In the wake of the recent MyDoom outbreak, the Internet
Industry Association (IIA) has announced a national
antivirus initiative that plans to provide all Australian
internet users with free trial antivirus software.
 http://www.arnnet.com.au/index.php?id=1958232166

au: The Current Stat\e of Play - A NOIE statistical report
Highlights Australia’s relatively high ranking in Internet
uptake and its readiness to leverage off developments in
the information economy.

http://www.noie.gov.au/projects/framework/Progress/ie_stats/CSOP_Dec2003/index.htm

http://www.noie.gov.au/projects/framework/Progress/ie_stats/CSOP_Dec2003/CSOP_December_2003.pdf

au: Spam Act 2003: Guidelines and Information Sheets
This guide has been prepared by NOIE to provide information
to business in relation to the sending of commercial
electronic messages.

http://www.noie.gov.au/publications/NOIE/spam/guide4business/index.htm

http://www.noie.gov.au/publications/NOIE/spam/guide4business/index.htm

us: Study: Spammers turning blind eye to the law
Only a fraction of the unsolicited e-mail slipping into
in-boxes complies with a federal antispam law, according to
new research.
 http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-5156629.html

http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040210.gtspam0210/BNStory/Technology/

China takes action against spam
China has launched a campaign to fight junk e-mails, or
"spam", during the first half of 2004, reported the China
Police Daily last Saturday.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-02/02/content_1294879.htm

Microsoft Warns Software Users of 'Critical' Flaw
Users of Microsoft’s operating system software have to
patch their systems again, or their computers will be
vulnerable to attacks.
 http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/11/technology/11worm.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30202-2004Feb10.html
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3477899.stm

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=4329978
Microsoft: New flaw, patch now
 http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-5156647.html

Internet voting gets stamp of approval
Michigan's electronic voting for its Democratic
presidential candidate ran without a hitch, the party says.

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,39020369,39145909,00.htm

us: Senators Rally Against Internet Tax
A bipartisan coalition in the U.S. Senate plans to try
Wednesday to break the logjam over whether the cost of
going online will be free of taxes.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30201-2004Feb10.html

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