Saturday, November 18, 2006

WEB SECURITY FIRM ScanSafe has detected a 40 per cent increase in US-based
requests for online gambling sites, even after legislation was passed by
Georgey Bush with the "Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act." The act
makes it illegal for US banks and brokers to transfer funds to and from web
gambling sites. The firm delivered its findings in its Global Threat Report
covering instant messaging, spyware and viruses. Vice president of product
strategy at ScanSafe, Dan Nadir said that a drop in visits to gambling sites
was expected following the new law. "However, we actually saw an increase in
web requests from the US for online gambling sites," he said. Nadir added
that a fair few of the web requests were related to betting on the October
World Series, which could have been "compounded by gamblers looking to
register with alternative providers before further regulations clarifying
the Act are put into place."