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. In this case Yahoo’s netrospective is a…

Remember the man who used his webcam and free webcam software to catch a burgler? In a twist, a peeping Tom has been caught spying on girls using their own webcams, connected to their own computers. He was able to do this thanks to the Subseven trojan. Spanish authorities have…

Windows users rejoice! It’s going to be a windowful day in the knighthood, as Bill Gates is knighted in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace tomorrow. During Bill’s excellent adventure, the Queen herself will be bestowing upon him the title of Knight Commander of the Most Excellent (Dude!) Order of the…

Rogue Amoeba, the software company who has brought us such innovative software as Audio Hijack and Nicecast, have done it again with Airfoil. Airfoil, Rogue Ameoba’s newest offering, allows you to stream audio from just about any program, wirelessly, to your Airport Express wireless network hub, which in turn streams…

Remember that guy who used his camera phone to make a video of himself having sex with his girlfriend, (and can you imagine the logistics involved?), only to have the video show up in the corner porn shop, and on an Internet auction site? And the folks who use their camera phones for upskirting and downblousing, courting prison time in the process? We had thought that these were the height of camera phone stupidity – especially the guy who reached out and touched someone while filming it. But noooo…. That dubious honour now goes to…drum roll please…

It’s finally happened. Send-Safe, the choice of spammers the world ’round, has finally been kicked off the MCI network. Of course Send-Safe had a safe harbour in MCI for way too long – Send-Safe was able to to provide safe sending services to spammers through the MCI network despite months…

Google has taken the unusual step of apologizing for its search results. But only, it seems, for results obtained by searching on the word “Jew”, the results for which have been deemed offensive. Linked from the top result obtained by searching the word “Jew”, by a link entitled “Offensive Search…

Gary Brolsma obviously didn’t read our cautionary tale about the teenager whose home movie of himself having sex with his girlfriend up on the Internet. Or, maybe he did. But what Gary Brolsma recorded himself doing has piqued the interest of people more than if he was having sex. Even…

From Across the Pond, written by Andrew Robinson over at Spamfo: We’ve seen the offering from Lycos, makelovenotspam which is no longer available, and the more recent software aimed at 419ers entitled the mugu marauder.  So what next, Spampires want you to pay to download software which has the same…

Even the most upstanding of Florida’s email citizens can’t seem to avoid running afoul of good email practices, if not the law, it seems. It must be something in the tasty Florida water, which of course is not just for breakfast any more. Case in point when Jack Nolan, a…

Do you remember when Aunty told you that ChoicePoint had been hacked, leading to dozens of thousands of people having their private information which had been stored on ChoicePoint’s servers compromised, including credit card numbers, social security numbers, and other personal information? And do you remember Aunty told you that…

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 J. Stesiak, of South Bend, Indiana, was due to appear at the court for a status conference on December 8th. A status conference is where the attorneys for both sides appear before the judge or another court officer, and tell them the status of the case – is it likely to settle, are they ready to go to trial, etc.. Only, Jeffrey never showed up at the court on December 8th.

Who says that the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) doesn’t have a sense of humour! Anybody who does will be handily proven wrong by a look at their new “Endangered Gizmos” list, over which anybody should get a chuckle (not to mention an education) no matter where you fall along the…

If you use Windows XP Home Edition, you may not realize it but you most likely have a big security hole sitting on your desk. This is because Windows XP Home Edition comes with public file sharing enabled by default. [By the way, “file sharing” is not a dirty word,…

What do you think the hot news is on the mean streets of the Internet? The Apple lawsuit against pre-med student Vivek “Desicanuck” Sambhara for putting a beta version of Mac OS X 10.4 (“Tiger”) on Bit Torrent? The teenager who was arrested for sending instant messenger spam (“spim”)? The…