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 that nobody understands any of them (certainly not women or search engines)?…

A new Ohio law, already signed and in effect, requires eBay sellers to become licensed, and to post a $50,000 bond. The new eBay auction law was signed by the Ohio governor in February, and will be effective on May 1st. In addition to the license and the $50,000 bond,…

T-Mobile Sidekick users across the country are suffering a Danger network outage which is leaving their Sidekicks unable to communicate across the Danger data network, rendering the T-Mobile Sidekicks just glorified T-Mobile telephones. The Danger network outage, which started yesterday, shows no signs of letting up as one day has…

From Across the Pond, written by Andrew Robinson over at Spamfo: Phishing operations have begun using DNS wildcards and URL encoding to create email links that display the URLs of legitimate banking sites, but send victims to spoof sites designed to steal their login details. This may sound familiar as…

Voipullar? What is that? Well, take VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), and combine it with a handheld Internet-able device such as a PDA or a smart phone, and what do you get? What some people are now referring to as Voipullar calling. In fact many believe that Voipullar (or VOIPullar,…

Fred Durst, frontman for rock band Limp BizKit, is finding himself in a new leading role, in a sex video in which Durst is seen having sex with an unidentifed woman, and which has been posted to the Internet by someone calling themselves the “T-Mobile Terrorist”. The sex video hacker…

Gary Brolsma and his Numa Numa dance are not just some flash-in-the pan fat kid doing a lip sync and a dance. They are oh, so much more.

The FCC has spanked an ISP for blocking VOIP calls so that the ISP’s subscribers were SOL. Addressing the SNAFU, the FCC indicated that an ISP blocking its users from accessing VOIP services is FUBAR. (How’s that for MAU? [Maximum Acronym Usage]) Seriously, the decision this week by the FCC…

Well, Wells Fargo has done it. Back in November we told you about the increase in ATM machines running on Windows (yes, we realize that “ATM machines” is redundant, but many people know them by that name). Now Wells Fargo has announced that it has just completed switching 6,200 ATMs…

eBay is working frantically to fix a bug in their software which allows phishers to do their phishing dirty work using real eBay URLs in their phishing efforts. eBay is calling the phish-friendly problem a “software bug” which can be used to create a genuine eBay link which in turn…

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 in the news a few months ago for their…

It is now possible to track and identify a computer anywhere it goes on the Internet by using its clock skew as a method for fingerprinting it. Clock skew is what a computer thinks the time is as compared to other time-keeping with which it is interfacing. And when measured against other quantifiable processes when the computer is connected to the Internet, it can apparently provide a reliable fingerprint, unique and allowing it to be tracked across the Internet. Voila. The clock skew fingerprint.

Dozens of future MBA students flunked their first business ethics test when they hacked in to the admissions information for Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Duke, and Dartmouth, among others, following instructions which had been written by a hacker calling himself “brookbond”. Brookbond, after determing how to hack into the schools’ web…

Mark Lucovsky may not be a household name in your household, but his name is well-known among Microsoft pundits and geeks. However soon his name will be associated with Google, and not just because “Lucovsky” turns up more than 13,000 hits in a Google search. It’s because Mark Lucovsky, who…

Ok, now Aunty really has heard of everything. And just in case you haven’t, here it is… The Internet Urinal Yes, you read that right. The Internet Urinal. Those whacky guys over at ThinkGeek.com have taken the ordinary portable urinal (with female adaptor!), and added something to it in order…