The Federal Trade Commission has announced that it has received a restraining order against and frozen the assets of TrustSoft and their SpyKiller program, a program which, the FTC says, was nothing more than a scam. According to the FTC, users who visited the SpyKiller website were offered a free…

Microsoft has this week issued an advisory on a new trick which phishers are playing with users’ web browsers, including Internet Explorer, although other web browsers can be manipulated as well. The trick involves the use of overlapping browser windows which are automatically opened by a site which the user…

Ok, forget drinking and carrying nude pictures of yourself on your cell phone. There is something even more stupid that you can do while drinking, with a cell phone. Drunk dialing, or drunk texting (text messaging) on your cell phone.

An exclusive interview with True.com CEO Herb Vest, who is lobbying to make online dating sites required to perform criminal background checks on their members, or state publicly that they do not.

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 ours, just last night. So our friend Sean would like us remind you: Don’t Speed You’ve seen it on the crazy cop shows. You’ve heard…

In case you were listening to the radio or televion news today, yes, you heard it right, and your ears were not deceiving you. The credit card information of 40 million MasterCard and Visa cardholders was compromised when someone hacked into the computers of Arizona-based CardSystems Solutions. 40 million. That…

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 a long time. The first recorded sighting for the Save…

Webmasters whose websites deal with adult content may soon have to start policing the ages of the models and performers who appear in content on their website, even if they did not generate or solicit the content – indeed even if the content is several years old or was acquired…

Adobe Systems, the makers of the popular Adobe Acrobat, is warning today of a security hole in both their Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat PDF viewer software. Adobe Reader is a widely distributed and used free software program for viewing PDF files. According to the Adobe website, “The vulnerability is…

Here’s an interesting item which came across Aunty’s desk this morning – somehow this feels like the line between churc..er…eBay and state is being crossed: WASHINGTON, June 20 — Quick, easy, convenient — and effective. That’s all customers need to know about eBay and the United States Postal Service. eBay…

Those whacky Pennsylvania legislators sure are hip!: HARRISBURG, Pa., June 20 — State Senate Majority Leader David J. Brightbill (R-Lebanon) announced today that the Senate Republican Caucus has begun offering a weekly “podcast” on its website to expand its coverage of news affecting the lives of Pennsylvanians. The first program,…

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 the trip. From their press release: “With fairy-tale…

Have you ever visited a porn site, even accidentally? Sure, it really does happen by accident. Heck, it’s happened to me!

Forget Qchex and other services which let anyone register your checking account and use it. Your monies in your checking account are at risk from a scam far less complicated than even that! That’s right, and your old Aunty discovered it, quite by accident. Today Aunty called up her cell…

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 the Controlling the Assault of…