Chinese porn-spotting student earns reward

Calls for UK ISPs to implement a blanket ban on Internet pornography, to be lifted only after the smut-seeking bill payer makes a potentially mortifying call to customer services, have come under fire - predictably enough.The...

China has shut down tens of thousands of pornographic websites since the launch of a crackdown in December 2009, the National Office Against Pornographic and Illegal Publications has announced.Taking another step forward in its...

A Conservative MP has called for ISPs to utilise an opt-in age verification system to control children’s access to Internet pornography. Claire Perry MP for Devizes in Wiltshire, proposed the idea in a commons debate,...

A meeting of Chinese bloggers due to take place in Shanghai last weekend has been cancelled, after authorities put pressure on the venue for the event. The annual Chinese Blogger Conference, which has played host to a number of...

Internet czars Yahoo and Google have criticised Australia's plans to enmesh the nation into a sophisticated internet censorship structure, which, according to some, will restrict freedom of internet by prohibiting access to...

Cybersitter LLC, the software company which was formerly known as SolidOak, has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the Chinese government and several prominent computer manufacturers including Sony and Lenovo. The...

Paul Hewson aka Bono, the frontman of the world famous Irish rock band, U2, has taken a break from saving the planet and has lashed out at internet piracy which has crippled the world music industry in the past couple of...

According to a recent announcement made by the Chinese government on its Ministry of Public Security website, it has been revealed that Chinese law enforcement agencies have arrested 5394 people in the past 12 months for being...

After China, Australia seems likely to bring upon a stringent legislation to filter the internet, banning access to a slew of websites allegedly containing criminal content, from sometime in the middle of the next year, it has...

Chinese internet users looking to access Google and many of its services were unable to do so after the Chinese government accused the US company of serious wrongdoings. The BBC reported that the Chinese Foreign Ministry...

China web users will be hit by another virtual wall from the 1st of July if plans, by the Chinese government, to install web filtering software on all computers sold in the country go ahead. The Chinese Ministry of Industry and...

The Chinese government has accused 19 leading websites and search engine portals, including the search behemoth Google, of failing to pull out vulgar content, like pornography, which is potentially harming its...

Judging from reports on the newswires, it seems that Thailand is joining China in the Internet blocking stakes, investing around $9 million in creating a `filtering' firewall.According to the Far Eastern newswires, the firewall...

CxOs, take note. According to the Associated Press, the number of Internet users in China has risen to a head-turning 123 million over the past year alone, which is nearly 20 percent more than in 2005.At this rate, 20% (around...

Looking back at the past year, it seems the security threats to businesses are only becoming more pervasive and more costly. In two weeks' time, leaders of the global law-enforcement, finance and online business communities will...