Yes, it’s true. During the time that the Tmobile system supporting the Tmobile Sidekick was hacked by Nicholas Lee Jacobsen, who just pleaded guilty for the Tmobile hacking, one of the accounts to which he had access was none other than Paris Hilton’s Sidekick account.

New York teenager Anthony Greco must have thought that he’d really pulled a fast one. Having just sent more than 1.5 million pieces of spam to MySpace.com users, he told MySpacee.com CEO Tom Anderson that he’d unleash worse unless Anderson gave him a marketing contract. The next thing he knew, he was winging his way to a meeting with Anderson..or so he thought.

A study has found that as many as forty-percent of all workers in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany spend at least an hour a day on personal email, while at work. And most of the rest spend at least half an hour a day.

SpamAssassin has handily won as the best anti-spam product in Datamation’s Product of the Year Awards, receiving nearly twice as many votes as the next closest contender.

April 12th is the very last day. That’s when the clock runs, and the deadline looms. And here you thought it was April 15th. Nope, it’s the twelfth. Because we’re not talking about the day your taxes are due. On no. We’re talking about the day that your Windows XP…

Are you familiar with the term “luser”? According to the Wikipedia, the term “luser” refers to Internet slang for “a painfully annoying, stupid, or irritating computer user.” While of course none of Aunty’s dear readers fall into this category, there truly are some computer owners out there who should never…

Those of you who recall Aunty telling you about the T-Mobile Sidekick hacker will be interested to know that not only has he been apprehended, but he has pleaded guilty. Twenty-one year old Nicholas Lee Jacobsen, an engineer now living in Oregon, formerly of Orange County, California, pleaded guilty to…

Just how stupid do you have to be (or how badly do you have to want to win an election, although the two apparently aren’t mutually exclusive) to send spam to thousands of your constituents? To their cell phones. Between midnight and four in the morning. On election day. Faking…

You know that spam which everyone gets for penis enlargement supplements? (Uh, you do all get that, don’t you? Or maybe that’s just Aunty…) Well, believe it or not, some people actually buy that stuff! (Remember Aunty’s rant about people who buy things from spam?) Not only that, but apparently…

The newest version of the MyDoom worm, discovered just today, not only still creates its own SMTP engine allowing it to send email from infected machine to every email address it can find on the computer, but this new and “improved” MyDoom also uses the computer’s Internet connection to search…

Benjamin Park was caught red-handed when a homeowner’s webcam caught real-time pictures of him burgling the house – even though Park also stole the computer to which the webcam was attached! Duncan Grisby, a British software engineer, had thought the webcam-based security system up three years ago…just before his house…

The ECD, the full name of which is “The Electronic Civil Disobedience against the Fur and Vivisection Industry”, has declared open war on the Internet servers of companies which trade in fur. It is doing this by bombarding the servers of the targetted companies with email in an effort to…

Using spyware to spy on your spouse’s activities, even to gather evidence for an upcoming divorce, is not ok. In fact, it’s against the law.

As many as 35,000 Californians may have had their credit card numbers, social security numbers, and other personal information compromised when hackers accessed identification and credential verification service provider ChoicePoint’s data servers. Hacks into ChoicePoint’s system have already lead to six documented cases of identity theft in California alone. Authorities…

Have you heard about Adsense “click fraud”? It’s one of the latest Internet scams. Click fraud has been in the news a lot lately, and with good reason. Click fraud accounts for 10-20% of all clicks on Internet ads such as Adsense, and by some estimate click fraud accounts for…