Word on the street was that Verizon for some reason known only to them had decided to block all (or at least nearly all) email which was not sent from inside of the good old USA.

LokiTorrent, one of the latest targets of the Motion Picture Association of America’s legal crackdown on filesharing sites using the BitTorrent technology to allow users to download copyrighted movies, has vowed to fight the lawsuit, and is asking for donations to a legal fund to help defray an estimated $30,000…

Rumours abound that Verizon.net, the ISP branch of telecommunications company Verizon, Inc., is blocking inbound email communications originating from outside of the United States

It’s like the Lycos “Make Love Not Spam” project, only with all that concentrated computing power being focussed on the public good. The World Community Grid is an organization whose lofty goal is to “create the world’s largest public computing grid to tackle projects that benefit humanity”. They do this…

It seems that online baddies are again using a flaw in the Windows help system to help themselves – to access to your computer system. As reported by Aunty last week, a flaw in the help system for certain releases of Windows, along with instructions on how to exploit it,…

Think that software pirating is just a problem for the big guys, like Microsoft, or maybe not even so much of a problem at all? Try telling that to Nigel Cross, owner of Xequte.com, developers of a number of software packages including SmartPix Manager, Mega View, Ez Pix, and Diji…

January 8th, 2005, is the deadline for Windows users to file a claim against Microsoft under the settlement in the class-action lawsuit on behalf of several California plaintiffs against the software giant. The settlement, arising from a lawsuit in which it was claimed that Microsoft had violated California’a anti-trust law…

Many of you have heard Aunty pile accolades on anti-spam program Cloudmark for their unique and highly effective way of stopping spam for their users: they have a network of several dozens of thousands of “reporters”, and when a certain number of them all report back to the Cloudmark mothership…

If you received spam today (and if you are reading this, and therefore by definition online, the odds are about 99.99% that you did), the odds are also very good that it came from the Good Old United States of America. Yes, that’s right, the spirit of entrepreneurism which made…

Dutch telecom regulator OPTA has announced a crack down against several violators of EU anti-spam standards, including against both individuals and small businesses accused of spamming. EU (European Union) anti-spam standards are generally much tougher and tighter than are those in the United States, and include a requirement that recipients…

ISP giant America Online (AOL) has announced that their users have seen a dramatic decrease in spam over the course of the past year. According to AOL, spam messages reported by members for this past month, November 2004, numbered about 2.2 million per day, and that’s down from 11 million…

There’s an old saying that it’s not nice to fool Mother Nature. Well, it’s not nice to fool us, either. But that’s just what Alek Komarnitsky did with his Christmas lights which you could turn on and off with your web browser. Or, rather, which you couldn’t.

Ok, you’ve all seen my post about Alek Komarnitsky and his 17,000 Christmas lights, and you’ve seen my post about how there is a movement to get him on some national talk shows.

Anti-virus leader Trend Micro has announced that they are offering a free virus and spam checker for mobile phones. With more and more people carrying an almost dizzying array of increasingly sophisticated “Smart Phones”, many analysts see cell phones as the next frontier for virus writers. And of course SMS…

Aunty had no idea that there was such a distinction to finding the last Windows security hole of the year! But that is the only thing which can explain this last minute rush to post newly discovered flaws in the eleventh hour of the holiday season. Barely ten hours ago,…