The other day someone ran across an .itml page (as opposed to an .html page), and they asked us what it was. "Is ITML some new web language that is going to take the place of HTML?" they asked us. No, ITML was not intended to replace HTML. Rather, it was a 'language' (in the same sense that HTML is a language) aimed at providing easier integration in the ASP (Application Service Provider) arena.
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Articles on Everything ElseThe other day someone ran across an .itml page (as opposed to an .html page), and they asked us what it was. "Is ITML some new web language that is going to take the place of HTML?" they asked us. No, ITML was not intended to replace HTML. Rather, it was a 'language' (in the same sense that HTML is a language) aimed at providing easier integration in the ASP (Application Service Provider) arena. In response to AT and T begging their iPhone customers to stop using so much data as it brings down their substandard network, the Fake Steve Jobs has suggested that everyone participate in "Operation Chokehold", a national hour of using as much AT and T bandwidth as possible, to force AT and T to say "Uncle" and do something about their network. Although the Fake Steve Jobs says it was all in jest, the joke may be on AT and T if enough people participate in Operation Choke Hold, spoof or not. Operation Chokehold is scheduled (or not) for this Friday, December 18th, from 12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m., PST. Only Internet-years behind the rest of the cell phone toting, SMS messaging texting world, iPhone users are finally able to send MMS messages. MMS messages are "Multimedia Messaging Service" messages, meaning that instead of just text, you can send multimedia items such as pictures and videos. It's official: Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter, has announced that Twitter is gearing up to start charging businesses for business use of Twitter through a premium Twitter service. It has all the makings of a classic western: trouble brewing between two factions in Arizona over disputed territory, the law unable to head the confrontation off, people taking matters into their own hands, and it all culiminating in the inevitable showdown. Only in this case, the dispute is over computer territory, one of the factions is the law, and the other side is the county itself! The next time someone asks you about social networking, and what it is, or to describe a social networking website, you need look no further than the laws of the state of Illinois. Because Illinois has taken the unusal step of defining just what makes a social networking site, in the context of their new law banning sex offenders from using any social networking site. The world's first Internet enabled online pacemaker has been brought online from deep within the chest of New York woman Carol Kasyjanski. Using a radio transmitter embedded within the "Internet pacemaker", which transmits through equipment stationed in Carol Kasyjanski's home, the Internet pacemaker reports any problems, wirelessly, to Kasynjanski's doctor. Spammers and malware pushers have turned in increasing numbers to the URL shortening services such as TinyURL, SNURL, bit.ly and is.gd as a way of getting by spam filters that recognize the actual URLs to spam and malware sites. Thousands of AuthorizeNet customers have started their long 4th of July weekend learning that Authorize.net has gone down - and gone down hard - due to a fire at one of their main data centers in Seattle, Washington. Authorize.net is one of ... As the Apple iPhone app store and T-Mobile G1 phone application market show signs of becoming more open, Microsoft has gone in the opposite direction, issuing a flat-out Mobile Market ban from their Mobile 2 Market applications market on several genre of applications, including alternate browsers or search clients. In otherwords, you and your Windows Mobile phone will remain captive and chained to only Microsoft applications. It was a Federal judge - Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart - who famously said of pornography, "I know it when I see it," and this week, forty-five years later, another Federal judge has said of naked pictures of teens being sent by cell phone (also known as sexting), "this ain't it." One of the very interesting things about Twitter is that there are real celebrities on there, who really interact with their fans. However, there are also celebrity impersonators - unauthorized imposters - and they have the potential to wreak real havoc. Click jacking is a malicious practice in which the bad guys essentially lay an invisible web page on top of the page that the user sees, so that when the user clicks a button or link, they are really performing the action of the invisible link that is overlayed on top of the button or link they believe that they are clicking (hence the term "click jack"). Often that invisible link is structured to grab their confidential information, such as a username and password. A new study about teens who talk about teen sex on MySpace, and other risky behaviours in their MySpace profiles and pages, has found that if someone in a position of authority, such as a doctor, who is also on MySpace, contacts them about the risky behaviour being discussed, they may stop talking about it on MySpace. No kidding? This week sees a lawsuit between the City of Chicago and the owner of the Chicago2016.com domain, between the RIAA and anti-RIAA blogger Ray Beckerman over his blog "Recording Industry v. The People", and between the EFF and Bush and dog in Jewel v NSA. And for good measure, while not Internet-related, a lawsuit to keep both Obama and McCain off the Texas ballot. Starting this week, instead of sending you a little note each day with a link to the newest article, we will be sending you a digest on Friday, with links to all five articles for the week. As a good percentage of the United States grinds to a halt for a day of 4th of July festivities, to celebrate our Independence Day, I'd like to make this observation: At this moment in time, many people are not terribly happy with the state of the United States. Indeed, I'd dare say that very few Americans are currently happy with the state of their home country. But I'd like everyone to take a moment to think about how absolutely extraordinary it is that we are here at all. Alcohol breathalyzer self testing has been around for a while - in fact there are now tiny portable breathalizers like this personal breathalyzer keychain fob from Amazon! But a breathalizer test for your iPod? You betcha, with the iBreath personal breathalyzer test and FM transmitter (we kid you not)! Automobile maker Chrysler is said to be ready to announce its mobile broadband wifi service known as the Chrysler UConnect Web System, which is slated to be included with certain models of Chrysler car for the upcoming model year. With the Crysler UConnect Web Service your car is, in essence, a portable wifi hotspot. Security researchers have discovered another Windows Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Internet Explorer 7 (IE7). Thankfully, though the severity of this vulnerability is high, the chance of a successful exploitation is rather low. It is, however, glaringly simple for the hackers to attempt an exploit. The rise in social networking has created an information management and overload problem for many users known as the "Data Portability" problem. The problem starts with authentication, includes having data (profile data, media or otherwise) in several different sites and in different versions, and is compounded by the fortress mentality of many social networking sites. These factors make it difficult for users to manage their online identity and control who sees, at what level of granularity, their personal data. The data portability movement is meant to make this easier. On the other hand, it may also make it easier for social networking sites to buy, sell, and use your data. So how come nobody is talking about the privacy concerns inherent with data portability? Skype, eBay's internet telephone service, has just announced a great Skype dela - an unlimited international calling plan for a mere $9.95 monthly fee, allowing Skype telephone conversations to 34 countries including the U.S., Canada, much of Europe, Australia, New Zealand, China, Japan, Korea and others. That's right, for the price of two skinny no-whip double-decaf mochaccinos you can make a Skype phone call to over a third of the world's population, as long as it's to a land-line phone. Does Google's StreetView invade privacy and encroach upon civil liberties? There are those who say that it does, and into this group we would have to place the Pennsylvania couple, Aaron and Christine Boring, who are suing the search company for both intentional and/or grossly reckless invasion of privacy and mental distress. They seek a minimum of $25,000. Sears, once known as "where America shops" should now be known as "where America gets spied on." That's because Sears has installed spyware on the computers of any of their Sears' customers who signed up for the Sears "My SHC Community" (SHC stands for "Sears Holdings Corporation"), spying on not only what they buy, but on everything they do on the Internet. The Internet Patrol is maintained by the Institute for Spam and Internet Public Policy, and written by ISIPP President Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.. Ending years of speculation about Aunty's secret identity, Anne P. Mitchell, Esq., president and CEO of the Institute for Spam and Internet Public Policy, dishes with Chris Pirillo on the Chris Pirillo Show, and now you can hear the interview via MP3 for ... Are you rude? Are you more rude online than you are in person? According to analysis of studies conducted by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, and, separately, the Synovate market research group, people are ruder online than off, and, generally ... A new survey of online consumers has found that they really don't like pop-up ads and flash animation on a website, along with dead links, poorly designed navication, and sites at which you have to register to get to where you want to ... STAMFORD, Conn., June 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Research from a survey conducted in May and June 2005 by Protegrity Corporation, the leader in Data Security Management(TM), shows that 53.9% of IT professionals surveyed believe their companies are still not entirely clear about current data ... SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 5 /PRNewswire/ -- McAfee, Inc., the leader in Intrusion Prevention and Security Risk Management solutions, today announced the results and availability of the McAfee(R) Virtual Criminology Report, which examines how a new class of criminals are using the Internet ... The Institute for Spam and Internet Public Policy (ISIPP) is offering a teleseminar to help email senders, and email marketers and email service providers in particular, understand what they need to do in order to comply with the new child protection email address ... Cloudmark has released a report they commissioned on phishing and identity theft..the results are pretty interesting: SAN FRANCISCO, June 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Cloudmark Inc., the proven leader in secure messaging from the desktop to the gateway, has completed groundbreaking research ... Prosecution among the first under the federal CAN-SPAM Act ATLANTA, June 30 /PRNewswire/ -- EarthLink's investigation of Peter Moshou, aka the "Timeshare Spammer," has resulted in Moshou pleading guilty today to violating the CAN-SPAM Act on a federal charge brought by the ... More on Kari Smith, the woman who tattooed "GoldenPalace.com" on her forehead for $10,000. Mother's Forehead Auction to Pay for Son's Education SALT LAKE CITY, June 30 /PRNewswire/ -- The Company renowned for outrageous advertising is at it again. GoldenPalace.com, the ... Archive.org, the Internet's Way-Back Machine, will save Consumer Advocate from false charges of defamation. (PRWEB) July 1, 2005 -- An Internet service may save a consumer advocate from a lawsuit that claims more than $2 million in damages. Gloria Wolk of Laguna Hills, California, ... [Says Wells Fargo "We see today's decision as a set back for consumers' struggles to protect their desktop (sic) from deceptive, confusing and intrusive forms of advertising. This form of advertising can create confusion for impacted customers who visit financial sites and ... .EU Domain name applications can now be officially submitted. EuroDNS, the leading Luxembourg-based European Domain Name Registrar, is now an Official Accredited .EU Registrar, and is accepting applications for ‘.eu’ Domain Names. Bearing in mind that the ‘First Come First Served’ rule always ... Congratulations, Earthlink! A leader in legal action against spammers, in the PC World "Best ISP" survey, and now a leader in web hosting! ATLANTA, June 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- EarthLink (Nasdaq: ELNK), the nation's next generation Internet service provider, today announced that ... Some interesting observations about the recent CardSystems hack in this news release: SAN FRANCISCO, June 24 /PRNewswire/ -- A week after CardSystems Solutions, Inc. disclosed that thieves made off with credit-card information affecting up to 40 million cardholders, the company has ... An interesting news release which recently came across Aunty's desk: Bettendorf, Iowa USA (PRWEB) June 25, 2005 -- Many network managers have discovered that the email and antispam servers they purchased were not simply overhyped, they fail some of the most basic tests of ... NEW YORK, June 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Online consumers are expressing growing worries about identity theft, The Conference Board reports today. More than 13 percent of all Internet users say they or a member of their household has already been a victim of ... This almost reads like one of those urban legends which you forward to a friend. Only it isn't. It really happened, to a friend of Aunty's, just last night. So he, and Aunty, would like to remind you: Don't Speed You've seen ... Oh, the sweet recursiveness of it all. A petition to "Save NPR and PBS" is making the rounds by email. And like the Craig Shergold's Postcards and Mrs. Field's Cookie Recipe emails, "Save NPR and PBS" emails have been around ... Ok, now Aunty can't quite decide whether this is just too tacky for words, or a clever twist on the old bridal registry. This new website allows the wedding couple to register for their honeymoon, and lets wedding invitees help pay for ... Stamford, CT (PRWEB) June 17, 2005 -- For millions of consumers, the Internet has become the ultimate shopping destination. The hours are great (24/7), you can leave the car in the driveway, and you don’t have to wait in line for a price ... One of the things with which the Federal Trade Commission was charged under CAN-SPAM was determining whether and how to implement the requirement of including "ADV" in the subject line of unsolicited email. Now this from the FTC: In a report to Congress required by ... Entrust Calls for Renewed Focus on Increased Consumer and Business Adoption of Solutions to Address Identity Theft and Protect Sensitive Information DALLAS, June 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Entrust, Inc., a world leader in securing digital identities and information, today ... A Greater Proportion of Men Than Women Access Their News Primarily Online NEW YORK, June 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Nielsen//NetRatings (Nasdaq: NTRT), the global standard for Internet audience measurement and analysis, reported today findings from the Nielsen//NetRatings @Plan Summer 2005 release on online versus ... The Telecommuter Tax Fairness Act will put an end to New York’s aggressive campaign to tax nonresident telecommuters on the income they earn while working outside New York, and it will prevent other states from adopting a policy like New York’s. This bi-partisan ... Did you know that the State of Ohio had something called "eSchools", which are computer- or Internet-based public charter schools? Aunty didn't know, until this came across her eDesk: COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Despite a comprehensive legislative study that says ... SEATTLE, June 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Blue Frog Mobile, a leading mobile media and entertainment company, is taking the international craze of ringtones to the next level by partnering with All Comedy Radio to deliver a wide variety of impersonated celebrity ringtones. Is Sly ... Net-Detective.com has become one of the most extensive online database resources in the United States, with information on over 211,400,000 U.S. residents, or 90% of all U.S. residents. Unlimited searches all for one flat price under $30. (PRWEB) June 10, 2005 -- Net-Detective.com has ... Aunty found this most unfortunate placement for an ad for Sprint, in an article about a new medical use for Viagra: New Use for Viagra: Treating Lung Disease Advertisement: No downtime. No waiting for answers. Get complete end-to-end managed wireless service from Sprint. Management that includes data ... Says Codeman38: "My current favorites are the ones mentioned in this BoingBoing post. Sexy dead singles and WMDs!" Aunty reader Ian McKenzie submits this stupid Adsense ad he saw recently: Beef Jerky New and used Beef Jerky. aff Check out the deals now. "Mmmmmm," says Ian, "used beef jerky." Mmmm indeed! US Senate Gets "Capitol" Wireless Experience WASHINGTON, June 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Starting today, Cingular Wireless customers visiting the United States Senate will experience improved wireless coverage as a result of a newly launched in-building antenna system. This means that Cingular customers ... NEW YORK, June 8 /PRNewswire/ -- The Advertising Council, in partnership with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), launched today a series of national public service advertisements (PSAs) designed to raise awareness about the prevalence of online sexual exploitation and ... Much has been made of the recent announcement that Apple is going to start using Intel CPUs. For the most part people think that this is either pretty cool, or no big deal, depending on where you sit. Many people seem to think ... Online security company Secunia has said this week that versions of Firefox and Mozilla, as well as the lesser known Camino, are again at risk for a frame injection security flaw which has dogged Mozilla on and off for nearly seven years. The problem, ... Internet web portal and ISP Yahoo, and router and software giant Cisco, have joined forces to jointly produce an anti-spam product based on Yahoo's Domain Keys and Cisco's Identified Internet Mail system. Domain Keys, which was announced last year, is Yahoo's entry into the ... In the latest in a rash of incidents in which the personal data of customers of various institutions has been compromised, Citigroup has revealed that the personal account information of 3.9 million customers has gone missing. 3.9 million customers. Wow. In one fell swoop, the ... According to a study by Reachon.com Permission-Based Email Marketing Service for small and large businesses, email has exceeded the phone as a favored communication tool for work and play. Findings show, 20% stated that checking emails first thing in the morning delayed them ... A catering company in a suburban Connecticut town eliminates its Yellow Pages advertising, which once ran to $12,000 a year, in favor of promoting its website. For a growing number of small businesses, local Internet marketing is proving cheaper, and more successful, than ... WASHINGTON, June 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Domain name owners from around the world gathered for a conference last week in Las Vegas to discuss strategies for developing domain names into profitable sources of revenue and valuable assets. Speakers said that they are now ... LYNNFIELD, Mass., June 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Sophos, a global leader in network security, has published a report revealing the top ten viruses and hoaxes causing problems for businesses around the world during the month of May 2005. This report, compiled by ... BERLIN, May 31 /PRNewswire/ -- The Berlin-based O&O Software is today releasing its freshly updated study, "Data Data Everywhere 2005." This particular study tackles the issues concerning the secure deletion of personal and company data on used storage volumes that have been discarded or resold. In ... Thirty-one fraud attempts stopped at Getogethersafe.com. Miami, FL (PRWEB) May 28, 2005 -– To date, 31 attempts to defraud individuals have been halted without incident, at Getogethersafe.com (GTS). The site contributes their success to many hours of direct communication with victims of sexual identity ... DULUTH, Ga., May 26 /PRNewswire/ -- "Identity theft is the greatest single threat American consumers face today," said Warren Butler, CEO of Georgia Federal Credit Union. "This crime attacks the very foundation of our economy -- and recent events have shown that anyone can become a ... ATLANTA and CITY OF INDUSTRY, Calif., May 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- EarthLink, the nation's next generation Internet service provider, and Microtel Computer Systems today announced a limited-time offer for new EarthLink Premium Dial-Up Internet subscribers to receive a Microtel PC for $69.99 or a ... An operation that spammed millions of consumers with graphic sexual descriptions to drive traffic to their Web sites to “date lonely housewives� has been halted by the court at the request of the Federal Trade Commission. U.S. District Court Judge Amy St. Eve ... Launch of New MSN Postmaster Web site and Enhancements to E-mail Authentication Aim to Help Customers and Service Providers Better Understand ... TixNix.com, a service that lets motorists and truckers fight speeding and traffic tickets online, now offers service to Louisiana drivers. New Orleans, LA (PRWEB) May 26, 2005 -- TixNix.com, a new service that lets motorists and truckers fight speeding tickets and other traffic violations ... Free of Pop-Up Ads, myEarthLink Gives Internet Users Access to Customizable Content Online At No Charge ATLANTA, May 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ ... Leading Software Protects Wi-Fi Networks in Small Offices, Homes ANN ARBOR, Mich., May 24 /PRNewswire/ -- In response to the overwhelming demand for LucidLink Wireless Security and client software, Interlink Networks has announced that it has extended its free software offer through the end of this year. ... SCAN USA (SCANUSA) Corporation announced today that the SCAN service has been expanded to alert the public of registered sex offender movement into their neighborhoods. Broadband service providers on the alert with DNS attacks on the rise WATERLOO, ON, May 24 /PRNewswire/ - The number and severity of DNS (Domain Name Service) server attacks have risen sharply on networks around the globe, as phishers, pharmers and other malicious code ... Sprint PCS(SM) Wi-Fi Access at Houston Hobby Airport helps travelers 'get unplugged' and make the most of time in the airport OVERLAND PARK, Kan., and HOUSTON, May 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Passengers flying through Houston's George ... Competitors of U.S. Companies Captured $133 Billion of Proprietary Information in 2004 MERIDIAN, Idaho, May 23 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. companies lost sensitive, confidential information to competitors who use deceptive research practices, according to a study released by Provizio. "Employees usually do not know ... Airline Celebrates First Anniversary of Flynet(R) with Week-Long Giveaway HANOI and HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam, May 24 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- To celebrate its first year of operation Lufthansa is offering passengers free internet access above the clouds with the airline's FlyNet(R) technology launched commercially on 17th May ... In what may be the biggest leak of personal data to date, police are reporting that a whopping 676,000 bank customers have had their personal information stolen from Bank of America, Wachovia, Commerce Bancorp, and PNC Financial Services. B of A has ... "Don't Become the Next Morgan Stanley" Advises ISIPP in Wake of $1.45 Billion Email Mismanagement Judgement SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 23, 2005 - The Institute for Spam and Internet Public Policy (ISIPP) is advising companies to take the $1.45billion email mismanagement judgement recently ... Information and Identify Theft Legislation Impairs Industry's Ability to Support Judicial and Legal System BALTIMORE, May 20 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Council of Investigation and Security Services (NCISS), the nation's largest association for investigation and security services companies, is working with Congress to prevent any unintended ... (PRWEB) May 20, 2005 -- As summer approaches, Americans start their annual dreaming of faraway places and begin solidifying their vacation plans. More Americans will vacation in the coming months than at any point since 2001, and, according to the Travel Industry Association, ... (PRWEB) May 20, 2005 -- While there are many spam blocker applications available in the market today, what differentiates BSpam (http://www.bspam.com) is its ease of use and the technology behind it. It requires zero configuration and is effective right from the time you ... DALLAS, May 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Online advertisers who are concerned about click fraud have a new online clearinghouse, http://www.lostclicks.com , where they can learn more about a pending class action lawsuit against the major search engines and Internet corporations, and about recent developments in what is now ... NEW YORK, May 18, 2005 - From computer monitoring and telephone taping to video surveillance and GPS satellite tracking, employers are using policy and technology to manage productivity and protect resources. To motivate employee compliance, companies increasingly are putting teeth in technology policies. ... SEATTLE, Wash May 16, 2005 On the eve of the gaming confab E3, M:Metrics, the industry authority on the measurement of subscriber consumption of mobile content and applications, reports that although there is an equal gender split in mobile game play, with 32 ... WASHINGTON, May 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Thirty-five percent of the software installed on personal computers worldwide was pirated in 2004, a one percentage point decrease from 36 percent in 2003. Yet, losses due to piracy increased from $29 billion to $33 billion. These ... Mail-Filters Tallies Hijacked and Other Computers That Are the Tip of the Iceberg in Spam and Phishing Attacks SAN MATEO, Calif., May 17 /PRNewswire/ ... RENO, NV (PRWEB) May 18, 2005 -- More than 150 Domain Names in five business and adult categories are being auctioned online. As a result of a Chapter 7 filing, the US Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of Florida has ordered the sale of ... (PRWEB) May 18, 2005 -- Top Level Domain names or TLDs, are new website name extensions. Current well known TLDs include ".com", which is used by most for-profits, ".gov" government organizations, ".org", used by non-profit organizations and ".edu", which designate educational institutions. The ... HWY Blogs announces its free blogging service offered to individuals and companies in the trucking industry. Springfield, MO (PRWEB via PR Web Direct) May 17, 2005 -- HWY Blogs announces its free blogging service offered to individuals and companies in the trucking industry. HwyBlogs.com is ... Free web logo discouraging Internet users from buying products from spam email now available in English and Spanish (PRWEB) May 17, 2005 -- The official logo for the national anti-spam public education effort "Spam. Don’t Buy It." (http://www.spamdontbuyit.org) can now be used by websites ... Company Continues to Expand Municipal Broadband Solutions Business LOUISVILLE, May 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- U.S. Wireless Online, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: UWRL) and its wholly-owned subsidiary Verge Wireless Networks, Inc. have "lit up" Pershing Square in downtown Los Angeles with Wi-Fi broadband coverage. Verge Wireless, ... Free, National Program Uses TXT Messaging to Provide Information About Abducted Children to Wireless Devices BEDMINSTER, N.J., May 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon Wireless announced today that it will provide its customers who opt-in with free Wireless AMBER Alerts(TM), short text messages with information about abducted ... OVERLAND PARK, Kan., May 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Beginning today, Sprint (NYSE: FON) wireless customers across the nation with phones capable of receiving text messages can assist authorities searching for abducted children. Sprint is among the first wireless carriers to provide this opt-in service that delivers free wireless ... ATLANTA, May 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Starting today, Cingular Wireless customers can receive Wireless AMBER Alerts(TM) through text messages on their cell phones. Cingular and others in the wireless industry have joined with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children(R) (NCMEC) to distribute Alerts to consumers ... As the Internet secures its place as the choice news medium, MSNBC.com leads the pack REDMOND, Wash., May 16 /PRNewswire/ -- MSNBC.com is ranked the #1 News & Information website by Nielsen//NetRatings again in April. MSNBC.com had 23.6 million unique users ... StillSecure Licenses Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort(R) Rules to Supplement Attack Signatures in Award-Winning Border Guard(TM) IDS/IPS LOUISVILLE, Colo., May 16 /PRNewswire/ -- StillSecure, provider of an integrated suite of enterprise network security solutions, today announced that it has entered Sourcefire's Snort Integrator Program, allowing it ... Is Your Realtor Showing You All Of The Real Estate Listings Available? Are there any benefits to viewing the MLS on your own before meeting with a real estate agent? (PRWEB) May 16, 2005 -- HouseValueQuotes.com offers MLS realty access to anyone searching for ... ePresenceSolutions.com offers affordable web presence solutions for businesses, associations, and individuals. Pembroke Pines, FL (PRWEB) May 16, 2005 – ePresence Solutions (ePresenceSolutions.com), the Self-Service Source for Internet Presence, and eBusiness Solutions, LLC (eBusinessSolutionsLLC.com) the Full-Service Web Presence Provider, both committed to providing cost-effective internet ... Leading-edge technology offers travelers up-to-the-minute flight schedules SAN JOSE, Calif., May 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport is proud to announce today that it is the first airport on the west coast to offer flight schedule information ... What BlackBerry Did for E-Mail, Rosetta Does for All Information OAKBROOK TERRACE, Ill., May 16 /PRNewswire/ -- While it's unthinkable for a worker to carry their company's mainframe for information access, Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois-based Rosetta-Wireless allows mobile workers to do just that. Rosetta's ... 70% of Organisations are Looking for More Cost-Effective and Flexible Technologies to Replace ATM, Frame Relay and Leased Lines EGHAM, England, May 16/PRNewswire/ -- Viatel has today announced the results of an independent survey which highlighted the imminent demise of legacy ... How Customer Friendly Is Your Website? NEW YORK, May 16 /PRNewswire/ -- It's a classic mistake for website owners. They create a website that is focused on their product alone rather than on the needs of their customer. Luckily, a popular new book by ... MAPILab Toolbox V2.0 for Microsoft Outlook the Best Choice for Outlook Improvement KALININGRAD, Russia, May 16/PRNewswire/ -- The MAPILab company has introduced MAPILab Toolbox v2.0 for Microsoft Outlook. This is a set of 13 utilities that not only make the user's ... McAfee Foundstone Security Expert to Host Webcast to Help Organizations Improve Their Government Scorecard Rankings SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- WHAT: Earl Crane, senior consultant with Foundstone Professional ... WebsiteAllies.com caters to a more tech-savvy audience by offering features beyond the standard free hosting services. San Diego, CA (PRWEB) May 14, 2005 -- Free Web site hosting is no longer just for the novice internet user on a budget. Free hosting companies are ... Techies across the country are keeping an envious eye on a historic town in Florida. The city of Dunedin, Florida will join the ranks of the elite few to have WiFi on a metro-wide scale. (PRWEB) May 9, 2005 -- Techies across the country ... Eat in and Log on! In alliance with eWireless, Indiana CiCi’s Pizza locations will feature Free High-Speed Wireless Internet Access for Customers as part of CiCi’s Pizza’s aggressive growth strategy (PRWEB) May 13, 2005 -- Marwin Management, the Dallas-based owner and operator of more ... PayKiosks Internet Terminals completed their first of many wireless (Wi-Fi) installations for the All American group of truck stops and travel plazas. (PRWEB) May 13, 2005 -- The first of this group of truck stop Wi-Fi installations was completed May 1st in Doswell, VA. ... Experts to discuss Consumer Privacy, Data Protection and the latest regulatory requirements pertaining to Homeland Security; HIPAA; Sarbanes-Oxley; Graham-Leach-Bliley. Cleveland, OH (PRWEB) May 13, 2005 -- BlueBridge Networks, LLC, Northern Ohio's leading provider of Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Services is pleased to announce ... From Microsoft: Windows XP Update Bolsters Security of Both Private and Public Wi-Fi Networks Free Download Adds Support for Advanced Wireless Network Security Standards; Expands Wireless Market to Security-Mandated Industries and Agencies REDMOND, Wash., May 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ... LinkSmile Offers No Cost Alternative to Link Brokers / Auctions Miami, FL (PRWEB via PR Web Direct) May 12, 2005 -- LinkSmile offers the most powerful marketing services with the most value-add options in the text link advertising field. Its address on the Internet: ... From the FTC: Bogus Fuel-Saving Device Sellers Settle FTC Charges Operators who sent illegal spam and made deceptive claims for a bogus fuel-saving product that doesn’t save fuel have settled Federal Trade Commission charges that their e-mail and Web sites violated federal laws. The settlements ... From the FTC: FTC Publishes Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Agency Seeks Comment on Definitions and Substantive Provisions Under the CAN-SPAM Act The Federal Trade Commission published a Federal Register notice today seeking public comment on certain definitions and substantive provisions under the Controlling the Assault of ... Most states in the United States have two legislative "houses", a House of Representatives, and a Senate (although some states may call them something else). In many states the two houses are referred to as an "upper house" (the senate) and a "lower ... [To submit a reader alert send it to Alerts at Aunty Spam] Net Patroler Phil W. offers the following additional information and very interesting analysis of the Associated Bank phishing scam: After reading your alert about Associated Bank, I recalled receiving a similar email, which ... [To submit a reader alert send it to Alerts at Aunty Spam] Reader Mark H. shares the following information about a phishing scam he received: Dear Aunty: Below you'll find an email that was mailed to me that appears to be a con. I ... Aunty's article about Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg Dissing Verizon Wireless Customers: "The Customer Has Come to Expect So Much" has generated a lot of reader feedback, and continues to do so. Here are some of the things you've had to say: It would ... Don't you just hate stupid Adsense ads? And stupid Adsense ads are everywhere, aren't they? Well, turn that stupid Adsense-induced frown upside down, dear reader, because now you can be part of a glorious chance to laugh at those stupid Adsense ... As you might imagine, Aunty's readers had lots to say about the FCC's "broadcast flag", which is a system which will be required in all devices capable of recording from television, signaling the presence of copyrighted material, effective July 1st of this year. ... We've had lots of interesting comments about our article Screwed If You Do, Screwed If You Don’t - Windows Update Causes Crashes (KB891711), which talks about an update to Windows released early this year which seems to be causing more problems than it's ... What do women, thongs and search engines have in common? It's the perennial question. Ok, maybe it isn't, but it's a darned good question. Do you know what women, thongs and search engines have in common? Is it ... Dear Gentle Readers, Aunty Spam's Net Patrol is participating in a survey to determine what are the interests and backgrounds of Aunty's wonderful readers (that's you!) Please do not feel compelled to take this survey, but if you are so inclined and would, Aunty would ... Do you remember when Aunty told you about Daniel Quinlan, in the context of SpamAssassin being picked the top anti-spam product? Or, in addition to his work with SpamAssassin, you may remember Quinlan as a Vice-President, Apache Software Foundation, which was ... Happy Birthday to Yahoo, which is celebrating its 10th birthday with not only a big Yahoo, but a "netrospective". "What the yahoo is a netrospective?", you may ask. Apparently it's a cute play on words - a retrospective with respect to the Internet. ... Remember when it used to be that "the dog ate my homework"? That didn't work very well, did it? Well, now it's "the spam filter ate my court appearance notice", and guess what! As it turns out, that works pretty well! Attorney Jeffrey ... 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 ... Dear Gentle Readers, For those of you who have been listening at home (and those of you who haven't, you should be!), Aunty's regular weekly date with the extremely funny, bright, and erudite David Lawrence, of Online Tonight with David Lawrence, has been moved ... You heard it here first (Aunty sure appreciates her little birdies!) U.S.-based ISP giant Earthlink and Korean-based SK Telecom have just this morning announced that they have joined forces to form a national wireless provider here in the United States. What does this mean ... Dear Gentle Readers, This week Aunty is helping her dear friends over at the Institute for Spam and Internet Public Policy with their 2nd annual national "Spam and the Law" conference, and so Aunty may not be quite so wordy as she usually is. ... ...please click here. (Aunty is just trying to get a sense as to how many folks are using the RSS feed.) Here's the link again. Thank you! Kissy kissy, Aunty In addition to the critical fix for the Help flaw which implicated Active X, and which Aunty posted about here, Microsoft today announced two additional security patches for Windows users. The first one involves both a cursor and icon handling vulnerability, along with a ... Not a moment too soon, Microsoft has announced a fix for that pesky "help flaw" involving ActiveX which Aunty first reported on here and again here just yesterday. Making this flaw even more devestating than some others is the fact that it affects so ... Move over black coffee so thick that your spoon stands up in it. And it was never old Coke or new Coke for this computer jockeyette. Aunty has a new drink of choice. It is the perfect drink for a quick-pick-me up while hammering ... Yes, it's that time of year again, when grocery stores are selling Christmas decorations and toys, drug stores are selling Christmas trees (hey, nobody actually buys food or medicine, do they?), and Starbucks is playing Jingle Bell Muzak on infinite loop. And, oh yes, ... Air to breathe. Water to drink. Access to the Internet. These are all things which we have come to take for granted as being available to us any time, anywhere, so long as we have the requisite pulmonary system, digestive system, or ... Anurag Jain has a radical idea to clear your inbox of spam: unplug your mail server for several days. According to Jain's blogspot blog, the institute of which he is part, the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, had to upgrade their Microsoft Exchange server. ... Microsoft has taken the unusual step of foreshadowing the release of an upcoming Windows security bulletins. On Thursday, December 9th, Microsoft announced on its TechNet site that it would announce on the following Tuesday, December 14th, "5 Microsoft Security Bulletins affecting Microsoft Windows". Microsoft also ... Have you ever fallen for an Internet hoax, urban legend, or doctored data? Well, you're not alone. Even Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun Microsystems, has fallen for at least one. Giving the keynote address at the annual Oracle OpenWorld show this week, at Moscone ... As reported by Aunty a few weeks ago, here, failed dot.com Commerce One had filed bankruptcy and on the bankruptcy auction block, among other things, were nearly 40 patents for various web services, many of which are in widespread use across the Internet, ... Blood Diagonostics, a South Carolina biopharmaceutical firm, has sued Health Coalition Inc. ("HCI"), claiming that HCI has used Blood Diagonostic's name in meta tags on the HCI website. Blood Diagnostics claims that the use was a calculated act on the part ... It's like Godzilla versus King Kong, or Kramer versus Kramer, or something. CNet news is reporting that adware and spyware (and bears, oh my!) has started targeting competitor wares by detecting and removing them from computers infected by both. In fact, in a lawsuit filed ... The State of California is resorting to good old-fashioned U.S. mail to notify 1.4 million California residents that their personal information may have been compromised as a result of a hacking incident. The warning was made necessary by a hack-attack on the computer ... You know all that spam you've been getting, promising you a university diploma? Well, the only degree that brothers Craig and Alton Poe are likely to be encountering in the foreseeable future is the third degree. The siblings, along with Trinity Southern University and Innovative ... IBM has announced that it is making it FairUCE anti-spam product available for free. "FairUCE" stands for "Fair use of Unsolicited Commercial Email". FairUCE is an SMTP proxy for PostFix which works as a sort of amalgamation of email authentication and challenge/ ... There are so many anti-spam products out there for Windows users, how is a person to know which one to choose? by Karl Jacobs, CEO of Cloudmark Email security is becoming a critical concern for small businesses today as email infrastructure is under constant attack from spam, viruses and fraud attacks. Spam, known as unsolicited e-mail, has become the single largest nuisance for Internet users with an estimated ... Taking a page from Bush the Senior, who immortalized the words "Read My Lips, No New Taxes", President Bush today signed into law a three-year ban on the taxation of Internet connections. The new law completely bans any tax on any sort of Internet ... And you thought that Lycos' "Make Love Not Spam" screensaver was bad (or good, depending on how you looked at it). A company called Symbiot has developed a software package which is ostensibly designed to protect your system from attacks...by mounting a good offense ... I hope that all of you Windows users listened to Aunty, and didn't download that Lycos "Make Love Not Spam" screensaver. Netcraft has announced that Lycos Europe has pulled their screensaver project, "Make Love Not Spam", and now when you go to the ... A new security warning issued by Microsoft this week affects a large number of Windows users. In fact, according to the Microsoft site, people who should read the warning include "Customers who use Microsoft Windows". That's a pretty broad field. The security ... It's (one of) every IT manager's nightmare: thousands of users, downloading and installing a seemingly innocent add-on program, in this case one offering to speed up their Internet experience. However, in reality, the program has the ability to compromise the most ... You just knew it had to happen, right? You can't take aim at a group of spammers and just expect them to sit there quietly and take it on the chin. At least, not if you have half a brain. I mean, ... As could have been predicted, Lycos Europe's "Make Love, Not Spam" campaign is drawing a lot of sharp criticism. In fact, Steve Linford of the anti-spam company SpamHaus has been quoted as saying that "It's irresponsible of Lycos to put its name ... Almost a year to the day that Federal law makers passed the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 and sent it to the president for signing, the Ohio state legislature has passed, by 89-1, what is being lauded as one of the toughest anti-spam laws ... According to a report prepared by Harvard Law student Benjamin Edelman, if you use Gator, now owned by Claria, you may be in a bit of a bind if you want to remove the GAIN (Gator Advertising Information Network) adware which has been ... Ever wish that you had a resource which could tell you what to do about spam, why spammers spam, the history of spam, how to stop making it lucrative for spammers, and, most importantly for the IT professional, how to get your users ... If there's one thing at which our government excels, it's obfuscating, obstructing, and even obliterating information, particularly when it doesn't want John Q. Public to have access to that information. Even with the advent of the Freedom of Information Act, there's a whole lot going on which we don't know about. Some of which we perhaps shouldn't, granted, such as matters which are truly of import to national security. But what about all that other stuff? Commerce One, a software company, has filed bankrupcty and is in the process of liquidating its assets. Among those assets are 39 patents for web services, many, if not all, of which are widely used today. This is causing several industry leaders concern, ... For those of you who like your virus information fresh and al dente, you can't beat the online virus information offered by Panda Software. Panda not only provides you with the name of the virus, and date that it was discovered, but it gives ... Perhaps you are familiar with the website ForSaleByOwner.com. Essentially it is a website which allows users to list their property for sale, and also publishes useful information related to real estate. In short, it doesn't do anything a whole lot different than does ... The government of Israel is poised to consider competing proposals in their effort to outlaw spam. The government itself is preparing a bill for consideration which would follow what is considered the European model of anti-spam legislation: commercial email may be sent to ... Want to really astound and amaze (and possibly startle and scare off) visitors to your website? Then consider using a new service called "Timpani", being offered by LivePerson.com According to an Article in Call Center Magazine, "Timpani's analytics engine allows you to track customers' movements ... The unpermitted and surreptitious use of legitimate websites by hackers to steal the passwords and other sensitive information of users visiting those sites is on the rise. This is illustrated in blazing highlights by the brazen use of the Comedy Central website over the ... We've talked some about cookies (the kind which are saved on your computer, not the kind which you eat, although look at the bottom of this post for a great cookies-that-you-eat recipe!) Some of the most frequently asked questions which Aunty gets regarding cookies ... Here's something truly frightening. Or amazing. Or maybe both. Having just reported on the latest version of the Sober worm, Aunty got to wondering just how many worms there were out there. I'm talking about the kind which make their way ... The newest version of the Sober worm, unleashed on the English- and German-speaking world on Friday, has an interesting twist. The version aimed at Germans claims to contain an attachment featuring photos of an exotic dancer seeking employment. Specifically, the Sober-sent email claims ... The DeepNet web browser for Windows has been around as an alternative to (and indeed built on the same platform as) Internet Explorer for a while, and it has always gotten great reviews. However, DeepNet is now going an important step further. In ... Dear Gentle Readers, Aunty has long known the good people over at MailShell, where they are very conscientious developers of anti-spam solutions, and generally all around good net citizens. They are always at the fore of industry collaboration, and take part in such ... Dear Gentle Readers, Aunty has recently learned of a new email product which shows great promise, and you, dear Aunty Spam readers, are among the first to hear about it, and Aunty is thrilled to tell you that you can use it for free ... I am so sick of spam. Aren't you? Well, imagine how Bill Gates feels. It was recently revealed that he gets nearly 4 million pieces of spam a day. Yes, that's right. 4 million. Now, that's a lot by any measure. According to Microsoft ... If your company sends email which contains confidential information, or which you'd like to lock down so that it can only be read by an authenticated recipient on the other end, or which you'd simply like to be able to authenticate as really ... Martin Brampton, over at Silicon.com, has a thought-provoking article this week regarding the interplay between IT and business, marketing, and other units. Typically how well a given computer or other technical system functions is laid squarely at the feet of the IT department, for ... Internet instant messenger programs and services, such as AOL Instant Messenger ("AIM") and Yahoo! Instant Messenger, are as ubiquitous as the telephone, and indeed some may argue are replacing the phone in large part. This can be both a boon and a problem for ... Ever wondered what it was like to be a spammer? Curioius about how they spend their days? How they earn their crust? The recent Virginia trial of notorious mega-spammer Jeremy Jaynes has given the public a first rare look into the ... Dear Gentle Readers, Aunty would like to take a moment to talk about a topic which is near and dear to her heart: single fathers, and their children. Sad to say, in our society and many others (England is a notable example), single fathers ... In a move blatant and sweeping even for the company perceived by many to be megalomania personified, Microsoft has drafted an Internet protocol licensing agreement which includes essentially every single Internet protocol ever created, several (if not the majority) of which Microsoft has ... The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has put into place a new rule which says that if a request to transfer an Internet domain is made, and there is no response made denying the transfer within 5 days, the transfer ... Despite the miserable failure suffered by Microsoft's efforts to win support for their Sender I.D. email authentication system, with such august institutions the Apache project, the Debian project, and even the IETF's authentication working group all roundly rejecting Sender I.D. on technical as ... Now here's an interesting idea. Imagine if email worked like RSS. Your email program would aggregate a list of new message subjects and senders for you, and if you wanted to read them, it would go retrieve them from the sender's ... A new phishing tactic discovered by Internet security company SurfControl allows the phisher to take advantage of a weakness in a targeted company's website, permitting them to use the company's real URL, while serving up bogus look-alike content. According to Susan Larson of SurfControl, ... As more and more users renounce the security-risk beleagured Internet Explorer, and move to open source web browsers such as Firefox, Microsoft is starting to feel the pinch. As a result, Explorer has slipped from a previous lofty 95% marketshare to below ... The Chicago Sun-Times is reporting that Motorola has just filed a patent on what has got to be the ultimate pay-per-click mechanism: beaming advertisements to celphones and then using geolocation to track when the celphone user has walked into an advertised merchant's ... Looking for a way to earn some spare cash for the holidays? Well, if you're in the U.K., and know of a company who is using pirated, unlicensed, or otherwise illegal software, you're in luck. Just turn the company in to the Business ... Dear Gentle Readers, Aunty recently became aware that some users are complaining that cookies are spyware, and accusing cookie-leaving companies of infecting their computers with spyware. This happened most recently to the people over at Pocket PC Thoughts, where users' anti-spyware programs were detecting cookies ... If you are one of the thousands of users who uses a challenge/response system to stem the flow of email into your inbox, you may be missing out on more than just spam. One of the inherent flaws in challenge/response systems is that they ... Dear Gentle Readers, MSNBC, of all places, is reporting that there are allegations that Microsoft CEO Steven Ballmer has been spamming people. :gasp: Can it be true? Microsoft has been in the news a lot lately as a champion of anti-spam, suing spammers in Federal court left ... As many of you may already know, the Federal Trade Commission has been charged with looking at, among other things, sender authentication. This is important because when certain sorts of email marketers send out their "permission based email marketing", for some reason ... The Hormel corporation, long tolerant of its trademark "spam" being used to mean junk email, has decided that they have had enough, and are ready to reclaim their rightful place as The Spam People. As part of their initiative, they will be ... British security firm Mi2g has, after an intensive year-long study, named Apple OS X and Open Source BSD as the most secure and resistant to security breach operating systems one can use in a 24/7 computing environment. The study of more than 235,000 computer ... Dear Readers, As reported here by Aunty just days ago, there is a vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer which allows bad people to make you think that you are clicking on a link for one site, and then redirecting you to another site altogether. ... Dear Gentle Readers, Aunty has just become aware of a brand new scam-by-spam. The spam tells readers that it has been sent by "an official anti-spam corporation", that has determined that your email address has been included in several spam mailings, and that they "control ... A U.S. District Court in Pennsylvania ruled last week that ISPs must put their customers on notice before turning customer information over to a subpoenaing party, in this case the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Because customers of ISPs are often not in ... A newly discovered URL spoofing trick can affect anyone using I.E. versions up to and including 6.0.2800.1106, and Safari for Mac. (IE version 6.0.2900, Mozilla, and Firefox are not affected.) The way that it works is that it allows the display of one ... Ok, this isn't really about the Internet, but it is about technology, and it's important, and hey, it's my site, so I'll cry if I want to (oops, wrong song). Many, many counties in the country are going to, or indeed, have already gone, ... The Washington Post is reporting that the Bush Cheney re-election website has barred access to visitors from outside the United States, after sustaining an online attack which took the website down for several hours. Boohoohoo..cry Aunty a river. When your site gets taken ... Security experts are reporting that the newest version of the Bagle virus is being delivered in email packages with friendly subject lines like "Hello,", "Thank you!", and "Thanks :)", with the actual payload files (the .exe files which do the dirty work) labelled ... When you get a junk email, that's what is known as spam, When you get a wanted email, that's what is known as ham. But when the junk is instant messaged, we like to call it spim, And when the spammer can be found, we like ... According to voters polled in a recent survey by Mail Frontier, 21% of those surveyed admitted that if they got an anti-Bush or anti-Kerry spam, it would influence their vote in Tuesday's presidential election. Now mind you, this wasn't a survey of 5 people ... If you're anything like Aunty, you've had more than your share of novice users in your organization who are, well, let's call a spade a spade, human Internet security risks just waiting to be exploited. If you have a user or three in your ... EarthLink, AOL, MSN, and Yahoo all filed lawsuits today against spammers in California, Virginia, and Washington. While it is unclear whether the timing was coordinated, who the heck cares? Good on ya, Aunty says! EarthLink's lawsuit, filed under CAN-SPAM, is against ... We all know about spam, spyware, viruses and phishing. But these pale by comparison with (and indeed are the supporting cast for) the mother of all Internet incursions: extortion of online businesses. And your computer could be involved. The L.A. Times this week ... California company 2idi wants to end spam by reinventing the Internet. Or, more accurately, moving everyone from the Internet to a vast private intranet. Founded by husband and wife team Victor and Carol Grey, and partner Ben Labalme, 2idi's i-name service is based ... Dear Gentle Readers, Here is your chance to win a free eBook or your choice of audio speaker presentation from either the "Spam and the Law Conference" or the "International Spam Law & Policy Conference"! Yes, Aunty will be giving 100 lucky gentle ... Not content to just wreak its normal wormly havoc, the latest version of MyDoom also taunts security firms and even disses rival NetSky worm author Sven Jaschan. According to Yahoo News, UK, the new version of the MyDoom worm includes plain text which reads ... In the flurry of more than twenty security updates which Microsoft released last week, it was easy to overlook one particularly insidious hole: a flaw in SMTP affecting Windows XP, Windows Server, and Exchange Server. There are probably a few computers ... Messaging security company CipherTrust has released the results of a study which they say indicates that fewer than five zombie networks are responsible for all phishing attacks worldwide. The report also indicates that the vast majority of phishing comes from the United States, with ... Internet domain registrar eNom is in hot water for reportedly attempting to grab as many as 950,000 (that's "nine hundred fifty thousand") .info domain names for domains which already exist as .com domains. According to a report by Netcraft, eNom registered the domains through ... If you get email which encourages you to make a telephone call to express your support for John Kerry or George Bush, don't do it without thinking twice and reading thrice! Spam which suggests that you make just such a call is making the ... A gaping hole has just been discovered in Microsoft's ASP.NET product, which allows access to password protected areas of a website just be altering the URL for access. According to an article published by Netcraft today, the issue involves "a bug in ASP.NET's handling ... Make Your C*ck a Hammer Spamusement is, according to the Spamusement website, "Poorly-drawn cartoons inspired by actual spam subject lines!" Reprinted with permission of Steven Frank. Here's a great idea! Let's make a law which says that you can't send commercial email to domains which have wireless messaging devices on the other end. So you can't send commercial email to the email address of a celphone or ... Microsoft has taken the fight against spam to the next level, by suing not the spammer, but the web hosting service which provides services to the spammers. In their lawsuit against CheapBulletProof.com (now there's a subtle name, eh?), Microsoft asserts that they "actively recruit ... America's Best Kept Secret Spamusement is, according to the Spamusement website, "Poorly-drawn cartoons inspired by actual spam subject lines!" Reprinted with permission of Steven Frank. Now, this just isn't nice. Still, you have to give the spammers points for cleverness. MessageGate has determined that spam featuring the domain xcelent.biz has gone beyond the usual rudeness of using a click on an unsubscribe link to confirm a warm body ... Spam Subject: never been easier Spamusement is, according to the Spamusement website, "Poorly-drawn cartoons inspired by actual spam subject lines!" Reprinted with permission of Steven Frank. Dear Gentle Readers, Aunty thought that, with all of the dire news around us today, she would share a chuckle with you. You see, according to an article in Security Pipeline, Solinus, the makers of MailFoundry, are making an offer that users of Spam Assassin-based ... By permission of the artist, Steven Frank, who also happens to be a co-founder of the wonderful Mac software outfit Panic - makers of the fabulous Transmit FTP program, and the ubercool Desktastic - Aunty will be bringing you Mr. Frank's Spamusement ... On Friday, with little fanfare, and even less press coverage, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed Senator Kevin Murray's SB 1457 into law. A shadow of its former self, SB 1457 still provides spam recipients with something which they haven't had for some time: ... The Federal Trade Commission is accepting (indeed soliciting) comments from the public regarding certain aspects of CAN-SPAM, including the much discussed "primary purpose" definition. The gist of this aspect of the law is that if the primary purpose of an email is ... Commtouch, makers of enterprise and ISP level anti-spam solutions, announced this week that it has acquired a patent which describes "a system that monitors live e-mail, identifies certain characteristics of the e-mail message that appear in more than one e-mail, and blocks other ... A lot of people scoffed at Stanford Law School professor Lawrence Lessig when he announced that he would wager his job against the efficacy of a bounty system to track down spammers, offering that if it didn't work, he's resign his position at ... Political spam has long been considered to be completely immune from any anti-spam law. This is due to the long-cherished constitutional prohibition against the regulation of political speech. If you are a registered voter and haven't yet received political spam, fear not, you ... A survey of nearly 2million pieces of email by security company CipherTrust revealed some interesting facts: 1. Only 5% of the email came from servers which had enabled either SPF or Sender I.D. authentication. 2. Of the email coming from servers with SPF ... Now how many times has Aunty said that war-driving is in poor taste? Apparently the Feds think so too, as they have whacked Nicholas Tombros for war-driving through Venice, California, where they allege that he sent oodles of pornography spam from his lap top ... Now here's an interesting showdown with potentially far-reaching ramifications. The location: o Mar Vista, a suburb of Los Angeles, California The players: o The Mar Vista Neighborhood Council, a public body of volunteer neighborhood do-gooders, ... The DOJ followed through with their promised big announcement today of the dozens of spammers, scammers, and just plain Internet nasties they'd whacked since June 1st. Here, from their own press release, is a peek at some of those badies: "Some of the charges filed ... On a sidenote to the much ballyhooed crackdown by the Justice Department on dozens of spammers, at least part of the funding for the crackdown came through the Direct Marketing Association's "Operation Slam Spam". The law under which these stings were made, CAN-SPAM, has ... Aunty gives kudos to the U.S. Justice Department, who tomorrow will announce that they have stung dozens of spammers, phishers, and other Internet criminals in perhaps the largest operation to date under CAN-SPAM. Aunty's said it before, and she'll say it again: "Yes, ... Those good folks over at the Institute for Spam and Internet Public Policy have a really nifty idea to get back at those pesky spoofers - people who use your domain as the "from" address in their spam. ISIPP is offering a new service ... Microsoft has announced that they will begin checking email coming in to Hotmail, MSN and Microsoft.com to determine whether the sending server has published a valid SPF record. The change is to occur on the first of October. It makes sense, given that ... Being Joe-Jobbed - or, in normal English, having your email address spoofed in the "From:" line of a spam run - has always been annoying. Now it turns out that it can be dangerous, too. When Charles Booher of Sunnyvale, California kept receiving ... Ok, boys and girls, Aunty's got a brand new bag: it's Play Along with Aunty! If you were the King Emperor of the Universe, what punishment would you exact on anyone caught spamming in your kingdom? From the Chicago Daily Herald: "According to a Yahoo! Mail global survey of about 37,000 Internet users in 11 countries, 20 percent of U.S. residents admit buying products from spam purveyors. About 78 percent said they delete spam." ...and 100 percent of those participating respond ... In a move which surely can't make Microsoft happy, no less an authority than US-CERT (the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team) has recommended that one way to deal with the security holes in IE is to "use a different web browser". In its ... China, that country which recently won the prize for having the highest number of hosted websites being advertised in spam, has initiated the monitoring of SMS messages for contents "that might be associated with political rumors and "reactionary remarks", using technology which it ... The BBC is reporting that people in Norway can now watch television on their cell phones. According to the BBC: "The service from the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation allows people to watch television on their mobiles 24 hours a day." (Don't they get tired?) Aunty wants ... Dear Gentle Readers, Here is a cause you can really back, and it just doesn't matter what your politics are. And if it does, well, shame on you. Aunty calls it "Gmail for GIs", but the good folks over at Gmail 4 Troops call ... The FTC today has announced to Congress and the country that it does not believe that a national "Do Not Email" ("DNE") list is viable until such time as "a robust email authentication system that would prevent spammers from hiding their tracks" is ... An anti-spam DNS blacklist - or DNS blocklist - is typically a list of IP addresses all of which have some trait or traits in common, usually having to do with their association with spam. Here is a more full explanation Nokia has announced production of a celphone which allows you to project short text messages into the air via a series of LEDs. The Nokia 3220 takes advantage of a known quirk of human vision, which causes us to see rapidly sequenced ... Here's an interesting twist on war-driving*: war cycling. [*For those of you not familiar with the term, 'war-driving' refers to the act of driving around, wifi-enabled laptop in hand (or on the seat or lap next to you), and finding unsecured wireless access ... If you are one of the legion who think that Gmail is a privacy nightmare, then just be glad that you don't live in Zimbabwe. According to a report by BBC News, the government of Zimbabwe has introduced a proposal which would require Zimbabwean ... Dear Auntie Spam, How do I read the fine print in the spam's header information to determine from where the spam really originated? I forwarded one to abuse@hotmail.com, and they sent me an e-mail saying it wasn't a correct address. P.S. Since getting ... You heard it from Aunty first - well, unless you've read the Reuters' article. According to a Reuters report covering the testimony provided today by noted "Cajun Spammer" Ronnie Scelson to the Senate Commerce Committee, Scelson told the committee that he, and I quote, ... Noted "Cajun Spammer" Ronnie Scelson, responsible for 30million pieces of spam a day by his own calculations, told the United States Senate Commerce Committee during testimony today that while he has given up his wicked spamming ways, and now complies with CAN-SPAM, if ... A 20-year-old man from Texas has been sentenced to 4 years for phishing, duping both PayPal and AOL customers into thinking that they had received email from those companies, inducing them to provide private information such as credit card and bank account numbers ... Symantec, the company perhaps best-known for its Norton AntiVirus, has announced today that it will acquire anti-spam company Brightmail for a cool $300million. Symantec already owned 11% of Brightmail owing to an investment made in July of 2000. Brightmail is, of course, ... Dear Aunty Spam, We run several small and medium sized mailing lists. For each of them, we have the permission of every single person on the mailing list to send them our email. In some cases they have actually paid to be ... Dear Aunty Spam, I keep getting email which appears to be from PayPal, or from eBay, but which really is from some scammer who seems to be trying to get me to give them my password or account number or credit card number, and ... From the "what a novel approach to spamming" department, H & H Enterprises of Foxworth, Mississippi is offering "Mind Gold" to "help businesses attract new prospects and gain the loyalty of existing customers". The gist of the Mind Gold program is that you subscribe ... Webcomposing Internet Solutions has just released Unicoder v1.1, which is a perl script which "allows you with a single click to convert an email address to a unicode javascript that makes your email address on your website 100% invisible to ... Dear Aunty Spam, I'm really enjoying reading your column, you have great advice and are very funny. I have a question about Windows and Outlook 2003. What is the best way to stop spam? My ISPs spam filters don't seem to be very ... As you might imagine, Aunty got lots of calls from reporters today about the OptInRealBig v. SpamCop TRO. However, one call from a reporter in Washington D.C. took Aunty by surprise. They did not want to talk about Mr. Richter and ... Dear Gentle Readers, Now that Aunty's blog is all spiffed up with audio posting and all sorts of nifty sections and all, Aunty would be so very grateful if you could find it in your hearts to link to Aunty's blog. The link ... Aunty has gotten so much email about Mr. Richter's various activities and lawsuits, questioning what he is thinking (or is that "what, he is thinking?), that Aunty has decided to allow Mr. Richter a chance to explain himself. So, Mr. Richter, if you are ... Ok everyone, we've gone live!!! Yes, you can now post your very own audio message to this blog, for everyone, anywhere, to hear! Tell everyone what you think and feel about the state of spam today! To post your message: Call 661-716-BLOG, enter account number 111-222-3333, pin ... The 18 year old German suspect in police custody has confessed to being the creator of the Sasser virus. Police in Germany have arrested the person they think to be the perpetrator of the Sasser worm. The 18-year-old German high school student is thought to be the creator of the worm which has so far spread through an estimated 18 million computer systems ... Windows users suffering from spam-overloaded inboxes can breathe a little easier thanks to next generation anti-spam products which are easier to use, more effective, and more tightly tuned to stop spam while preserving good email. PC World this week released the results of its ... Dear Gentle Readers, Aunty is considering including audio on her blog. In fact, Aunty is considering letting you include audio on her blog, by calling on your telephone, and posting an audio post. What do you think? Do you like this idea? Here is a sample: Kissy ... From the "things which make you go hmmmm...." department, it turns out that Scott "I am a legitimate businessman who is also the King of Spam" Richter, who is suing Ironport Systems over their listing of his IP addresses in their SpamCop anti-spam ... The industry is abuzz with today's announcement by Microsoft that they are "implementing Ironport's Bonded Sender program" - whatever that means. For those of you not familiar, Bonded Sender is one of the whitelists out there - bulk email senders can post ... Dear Internet Patrol, Time and again I have heard and read that after one installs WinXP SP1, there is a 20% to 40% chance it will damage your computer in one way or another. I did install SP1 in my computer and ... In a move which surprised many, but others not at all, Scott "I am a legitimate businessman" Richter, and his Evil Twin Scott "I am the King of Spam" Richter, of OptInRealBig, sued SpamCop and Ironport over a recent SpamCop listing of OptInRealBig. ... Spam filtering has always been a hot topic around the IT water cooler. The question most frequently asked is "how". But increasingly, a question which needs to be asked is "whether", followed closely by "how not" in addition to "how". ... I had to giggle this morning when I saw the headline: "EMail Service Blocks Pornography and Spam Based Upon FTC CAN-SPAM Criteria" Ok, the FTC CAN-SPAM criteria is that you have to put "Sexually Explicit" in the subject line of pornographic mailings, and, eventually, "ADV" ... Everywhere you look, everyone is talking about Gmail (including me). But what's amazing to me is that for the most part those who are heralding it have had only the most glancing access to it, if that. Those who are actually test driving ... Today I received email with the subject line: "urgent query" The opening lines were: "Dear Madam, I am writing to you out of great desparation." So, here's the test: Do you think that this email was spam, or not? Perhaps I should have asked this instead: Is ... Anyone else seen this? Spam in the past 24 hours, almost certainly all coming from the same source, with, I have to admit it, creative 'sender' names. Names like: Amateurism B. Sophocles Unmindful J. Mejia And my favourite: Visualizing I. Nappies (eeeewww!) Now if only they made ... Quick! Where on the Internet were you on April 13, 1994? Many of you are probably saying "Dude, I hadn't even heard of the Internet in 1994! Had Al Gore invented it yet?" Others of you, however, will remember that date, exactly 10 ... Today I received a third..or maybe fourth, who knows, perhaps even fifth - I've lost count - piece of spam from, of all places, ISPCON. No, I did not ask to be on their mailing list, no I did not give them ... You know those pesky bounce notices you get when a spammer forges your domain in a spam run? Hundreds, even thousands, of bounce notices sent by ISPs all over the world, kindly letting you know that the person to whom the mail ... It happens at least twice a week. Some reporter, pundit, or well-meaning but tunnel-visioned anti-spammer will point triumphantly to the fact that the load of spam in their inbox has not decreased - in fact, if anything, increased - since January 1, ... With the new upgrade and move, The Internet Patrol is now inviting new authors, and accepting articles for submission! Spam Fighter Kits from Aunty Spam and ISIPP Aunty Spam is pleased to announce, in cooperation with the Institute for Spam and Internet Public Policy, the following Spam Fighters's Kits. Each kit contains high quality MP3 audio presentations by top experts, along with their companion ... Welcome back, me! As I mentioned in our last edition, I have been away for nearly the entire month of April, first taking a holiday and then attending a workshop in Arizona, and then running a microcomputer workshop on the beautiful California coast. During our ... |
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