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Tomorrow, September 1, 2005, US cell phone numbers will be released to telemarketing companies and you may start to receive sales calls for which you may be charged.
To save yourself from this plague this is what you can do now!
William Genovese Jr., or “illwill” to his hacker friends, illegally obtained the source code for both Windows 2000, and Windows NT 4.0, and then offered it for sale. Genovese Jr. was busted when he sold the source code to both a private investigator, and an FBI agent. Oops.
Camera phones sure seem to bring out the stupid in people. Be it owner or phone thief, there’s something about that little lens that makes people go soft in the head. Take Danny Aquino for instance.
John Clennan, posting as JohnsGoat on a local Long Island Internet bulletin board (BBS), wrote yesterday that “My […]
A Hot Biscuit mod for Nintendo’s new Nintendogs is rumoured to have been released, and the news is travelling the Internet like wildfire, following the scandal which enveloped the Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Hot Coffee mod, through which you could have your character engage in, um, “intimate relations”.
Jealous Lover “Lover Spy” spyware author Carlos Enrique Perez-Melara has been arrested and indicted for creating and distributing the “Lover Spy” program, also known as a “jealous lover” program. Lover Spy allowed jealous lovers and others to remotely monitor and read the online communications, such as email, of their targets.
A new survey conducted by network security company StreamShield suggests, they say, that women tend to practice safer surfing than do men, as well as being generally safer and more cautious when it comes to viruses, phishing, and other Internet pitfalls.
The Kutztown 13’s tempest in a teapot appears to be slowing down to a dull roar. The thirteen high school students, who were originally charged by the school district with felony computer trespass and computer theft charges for hacking around the security and monitoring software on their school-issued laptops, have struck a deal with […]
Internet laundry, a concept being offered by LaundryView, is looking to revolutionize the way that people - or at least students - do laundry. They wire up the clothes washers and dryers on campus, and then students can check on their status over the web! Talk about airing your dirty laundry in public!
While this isn’t really related to the Internet, my good friends over at ScamBusters have uncovered a brand new scam which is growing rapidly, and taking in a lot of people, as it’s so diabolical and simple.
The online game community is being targeted by a keylogger worm called “PrsKey.a”, which is stealing their usernames and passwords for their online games. Now why on earth would someone want to access someone else’s online game account?
Spyware which redirects a user’s computer to a particular website is not uncommon, and may be quite lucrative. But can lead to jail.
Spyware which redirected users machines to a pornography site, in fact spyware which made user’s main page the pornography site, has lead to the arrest of a man in Korea. […]
Here’s a pretty nifty website if you’re curious about from where those telephone calls are really originating. It’s called Fone Finder.
The way that Fone Finder works is that you can enter any telephone number, anywhere in the world (if you are entering a number outside the United States you must include the country code), and […]
Well, thanks to Grant Robinson, I have a new time waster: Guess the Google. Guess the Google should be more properly named “Guess the keyword which resulted in these images being returned in a Google image search”, but I guess that was too long, and the acronym - GKWRTIBRGIS - too long to remember.
Aunty Spam is very pleased to announce her newest ebook, “How to Stop Spam, for Windows Users”.
Are you overwhelmed by the onslaught of garbage which is clogging your inbox?
Embarrassed by the smut and insulted by the scams?
Rumours abound that Yahoo is about to roll out its own VoIP service. And soon.
The most recent rumours started when Piper Jaffray analyst Safa Rashtchy said that in his estimation Yahoo was set to roll out a VoIP service within the next two weeks. Said Rashtchy, “VoIP is fast becoming the […]
Florida librarian Sue Martin has been suspended, and the Valparaiso City Commissioner is recommending that she be fired, after Michael Bushee, a registered offender, used the Valparaiso library’s computers to access illegal online child-themed content. Authorities claim that three male minors also accessed adult content from the library’s computers.
Search marketing company 180 Solutions has filed a lawsuit against several of its own affiliates, after it discovered that those affiliates were using botnets to install the 180solutions solution on unsuspecting users’ computers, without their permission.
Aunty does not know this company personally, but they claim to have figured out a way to protect your identity from identity theft, and they offer a money-back guarantee. Their program is only $10/month, or $100 per year.
This is pretty interesting stuff. According to Iraq Museum International, it has detected a pattern of what it calls “eBay sniping”, in which bids are intentionally and artificially inflated to ensure that a legitimate bidder pays top dollar, and has managed to catch the thiefs (for that is surely what they are) in the […]
How would you like to be the lawyer who is known for defending a man on charges of upskirting?
You may recall that upskirting and downblousing are the terms used for taking surreptitious pictures of people, in various states of undress, or under their dress, with your cameraphone (and then often times uploading the pictures to […]