Most adult webmasters do not put much thought into their website's security features, or what they would do if a malicious hacker broke into their site.

Technologists from McAfee warn that porn videos posted to YouTube are at a high risk for containing viruses that can infect user's computers when opened. Specifically, they have identified a scheme where users are redirected to secondary pages with prompts to download codecs to access video content, but instead alter browser preferences and install a Trojan that tracks internet activity.

The website for the American Association of Retired Persons was hacked last week by a group of coders who exploited a flaw in the site's content management system to redirect traffic from AARP to sites containing porn content. The hackers apparently used javascript code inserted into user profiles to redirect users to their websites in an attempt to boost Google rankings.

It's all fun and games until someone gets sued; just ask Canadian porn company SlickCash. Allegedly, SlickCash tried to gain unauthorized access to Facebook’s 34 million customer database by attempting to enter serves at least 200,000 times in less than a week. In exchange the Canadian porn site settled outside court and paid $500,000 in punitive damages.

When hackers design botnet programs to game affiliate programs, they often create victims in the form of unwitting computer owners whose computers get hijacked an used for illicit purposes. In the worst of these cases, computer owners have had their hard drives used as storage devices for obscene material that has landed them in hot water with authorities.

Older versions of the popular blogging platform Wordpress has been found unsafe to use due to the easy accessibility to exploit its security holes and convert blogs into pages filled with links to various moneymaking schemes. The good news are that this can only happen to older versions but not the most recent ones.

In a bid to curry favor amongst Australian voters, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has introduced the idea of shifting responsibility for filtering porn content from the nation's Internet authority onto the ISPs that provide last-mile service to consumers' homes.