Category: Internet

Sometimes that junk e-mail in your computer inbox isn’t trying to sell you something — it’s trying to save your soul. Get ready for spiritual spam. An e-mail security company Friday reported an uptick in evangelical missives crusading across the Internet. While religious spam makes up less than 2% of the billions of junk e-mail messages sent each day, its numbers have grown in recent weeks, according to MessageLabs, a New York-based anti-spam company. “With the recent right-wing swing in elections, maybe they’re trying to ride that wave,” said Paul Wood, the firm’s chief analyst. Some messages are little more

It was an email that prompted Gary to finally come clean. A man in his Bible study group had written to the other members, confessing to a pornography addiction. After reading the admission, Gary closed the door to his Dallas office and stared out his window for an hour, stunned into silence. “I was completely blown away by his courage,” said Gary, who asked that his real name not be used. “I met with this guy every week for the purpose of being honest with one another. I could not sit here and have this one-way relationship and continue to

A coordinated attack against the Internet, dubbed an “electronic jihad,” may be as close as tomorrow, one security firm warned Wednesday. Other experts, however, were dubious. According to a report on the Russian news service RIA Novosti, Eugene Kaspersky of the Moscow-based Kaspersky Labs has warned about a large-scale attack that might be delivered by Islamic terrorists. Kaspersky and other security analysts have noted claims on Arabic-language Web sites that announced an attack will launch August 26. The main targets — no surprise — of the attack would be against political and financial Web sites in the U.S., Israel, and

Her name is Hila. She is 22 years old and lives in Tel Aviv. She is very attractive, single, looking for a Jewish husband from a good family, and most important – she is a mouse-click away. This is how the banner persuades you, the Jewish bachelor, to enter the Jewish dating site JDate and find the love of your life. But Hila in the banner is no other than pornographic model Kari Gold, 18 years old, who lives in Hungary. She is, indeed, very attractive, has a boyfriend and is not looking for a Jewish husband at all. Gold

German neo-Nazis seeking to access racist propaganda on the internet will now receive a lesson on the Holocaust when visiting a website named after the Nazi victory salute, Sieg Heil. See Also Report: US providers shut neo-Nazi sites All traffic to the former neo-Nazi website siegheil.de has been redirected to shoa.de, a site providing information on the origins of anti-Semitism and a detailed account of the Nazis’ murder of about 6 million Jews. Germany’s central registration authority for web addresses, Denic, revoked the licence of the former operator of siegheil.de at the request of the German internet watchdog jugendschutz.net, a

(Special Investigative Report, May 20th, 2004, 7:23 a.m.) Millions of people spend hours each day on Internet porn websites. Some racy, some dangerous, and some are downright illegal. But if you search for these sites, you’ll find one that holds a real surprise. It’s a XXX Christian website. Your NewsChannel 3’s Rick Holmes tells us more in this story. If you type “XXX” into your favorite search engine, you’ll find 111 million websites ready to bring anyone, any age, any fantasy. But we found one website, www.xxxchurch.com, that is unlike any other. It’s the #1 Christian Porn Site. By now,

Alyson Leslie, a lay pastor, will run i-Church, a community of worshippers from all over the world who will congregate at the website for prayers in chatrooms, webcast services and e-mail socialising. It is the first time a web community will be a fully recognised Anglican church. Although parishioners from many countries are taking part, the church will nominally be part of the Diocese of Oxford, which is funding the £15,000-a-year venture – a fraction of the cost of maintaining many physical churches. Ms Leslie, whose appointment was announced at the Christian Resource Exhibition on Tuesday, said more than 700