Heinz Ketchup recently discovered that a porn site had set up shop on a domain that Heinz had let lapse, and is their face red! You see, not only had the domain lapsed, but there were bottles of Heinz Ketchup on store shelves with a QR code that lead to the lapsed domain, which had been turned into a pornography site.

Score one for the good guys: the Justice Department has said that they have taken down a huge, international child pornography ring that ‘met’ on an online bulletin board known as DreamBoard, where the members in the exclusive, members-only Dream Board child porn ring would trade images and videos of children involved in sex acts, all under the age of 12, and including children as young as infants. Heartbreaking!

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was busy fiddling around online while the financial sector burned.  Those are the allegations being leveled against the SEC as a new memo by the Federal Inspector General is released, revealing 31 separate probes of SEC employees porn surfing during the past two years, more than half of whom were senior-level staff, including SEC attorneys.

The newest Twitter porn scam – where the Twitter users’ messages are primarily links to their x-rated website – entails the porn-pushing (or pron, if you prefer) Twitter user sending out a message thanking you for sending a “Follow Friday” their way. Only, of course, you did no such thing.

It was a Federal judge – Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart – who famously said of pornography, “I know it when I see it,” and this week, forty-five years later, another Federal judge has said of naked pictures of teens being sent by cell phone (also known as ‘sexting’), “this ain’t it.”

If Sebastian Boucher thought that encryping the data on his hard drive would protect him from prying eyes, he may have been right. But if the Derry, New Hampshire resident, who is originally from Canada, thought that it would protect his 5th Amendment right against self incrimination, he may have another think coming.

The Geek Squad at Best Buy Electronics stores is supposed to help customers with their computers. But some geeks on the geek squad have instead been helping themselves to porn files found on their customers’ hard drives, with one Geek Squad member copying the files to his own thumb drive (issued by employer Best Buy .com).