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Library Must Use Internet Filters or Risk Funding Cut

Rochester’s Central Library must use Internet filters to block potentially inappropriate or obscene materials from being viewed on computers or risk a funding cut by Monroe County.

Merchant Risk to Hold iBill, Etelegate Recovery Seminar

Asset recovery firm Merchant Risk, Recovery & Intelligence has invited webmasters who are owed money by iBill or Etelegate to file claim information via its site CollectFromIbill.com, which has been up since October.

‘Poisoned’ DNS Servers an Increasing Risk

Security experts warn that up to ten percent of the Internet’s Domain Name System [DNS] servers are vulnerable to cache poisoning, in which hackers trick a DNS server into redirecting legitimate traffic to bogus sites.

Legislator to Adult: Use Condoms or Risk Action

California Assemblyman Paul Koretz is calling for mandatory condom use in the porn industry for all performances of non-oral sexual intercourse. If Porn Valley doesn't comply, it could open doors for the “Legislature to exercise its authority."

IBill Says It’s Still in Visa’s ‘Risk’ Program

IBill last month said it had been notified by its processing bank and San Francisco-based Visa that it was the first Internet payment service provider to be released from the program that targets “high risk” merchants. But iBill this week said that statement was not in fact the case.

Bagel.z Worm Risk Raised to Medium

The Bagel.z worm – the mass mailing worm that harvests addresses from local files and then uses those addresses in the “from" field to send itself – includes not just code but poetry. Network Associates on Monday raised the risk assessment to medium on the Bagel.z worm.