tailieunhanh - Is the Internet for Porn? An Insight Into the Online Adult Industry

The online adult industry is among the most profitable business branches on the Internet, and its web sites attract large amounts of visitors and traffic. Nevertheless, no study has yet characterized the industry’s economical and securityrelated structure. As cyber-criminals are motivated by financial incentives, a deeper understanding and identification of the economic actors and interdependencies in the online adult business is important for analyzing securityrelated aspects of this industry. In this paper, we provide a survey of the different economic roles that adult web sites assume, and highlight their economic and technical features. We provide insights into security flaws and potential points of interest for cybercriminals. We achieve this by applying a combination. | Is the Internet for Porn An Insight Into the Online Adult Industry Gilbert Wondracek1 Thorsten Holz1 Christian Platzer1 Engin Kirda2 and Christopher Kruegel3 1Secure Systems Lab institute Eurecom 3University of California Technical University Vienna Sophia Antipolis Santa Barbara Abstract The online adult industry is among the most profitable business branches on the Internet and its web sites attract large amounts of visitors and traffic. Nevertheless no study has yet characterized the industry s economical and security-related structure. As cyber-criminals are motivated by financial incentives a deeper understanding and identification of the economic actors and interdependencies in the online adult business is important for analyzing security-related aspects of this industry. In this paper we provide a survey of the different economic roles that adult web sites assume and highlight their economic and technical features. We provide insights into security flaws and potential points of interest for cybercriminals. We achieve this by applying a combination of automatic and manual analysis techniques to investigate the economic structure of the online adult industry and its business cases. Furthermore we also performed several experiments to gain a better understanding of the flow of visitors to these sites and the related cash flow and report on the lessons learned while operating adult web sites on our own. 1 Introduction The Internet is for Porn is the title of a satirical song that has been viewed several million times on YouTube. Its popularity indicates the common belief that consuming pornographic content via the Internet is part of the modern pop-culture. Compared to traditional media the Internet provides fast easy and anonymous access to the desired content. That in turn results in a huge number of users accessing pornographic content. According to the Internet Pornography Statistics 16 42 7 of all Internet users view pages with pornographic content. From .