Georgia’s Internet citizenry got a treat yesterday as Governor Sonny Perdue introduced legislation aimed at making spamming the good citizens of Georgia (or, indeed, by the good citizens of Georgia) a criminal offense. The proposed legislation, known as the “Georgia Slam Spam E-mail Act” (gotta work on those acronyms, Mr….

Last week Aunty told you about Internet baddies who are loading spyware, adware, and viruses (oh my!) into media files, using a loophole in Microsoft’s Digital Rights Management (DRM) process, and causing the nasties to be installed on the computers of unaware users who think that they are downloading media…

Microsoft announced today that it is about to start offering a stand-alone version of Outlook, separate from Office, which includes both a copy of Outlook and a subscription to either a Hotmail or MSN email account. In September Microsoft discontinued its service which had allowed users to connect to their…

Two bits of news this week should cause consternation in the peer-to-peer development and initiation worlds. First, California now has a bill wending its way through the law-making process which would require the developers of peer-to-peer and other file-swapping software to take “reasonable care” to ensure that their software cannot…

As we alluded to last month, new forms of Internet communications beget new forms of spam, and Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is no exception to the rule. Where it had already been predicted that VoIP spam, affectionaly referred to as “SPIT” (SPam over Internet Telephony) was just around the…

I’m a big fan of the T-Mobile Sidekick, nee “Danger Hiptop”. I carry mine with me wherever I go (well, almost). Once thought of as the poor man’s Blackberry, the Sidekick has really come into its own, offering all if not more of the functionality of the Blackberry, for half…

Internet service provider Panix.com found that their entire domain was hijacked over the weekend. The ISP, which serves the greater New York City area, found that the domain had been moved from their own registrar to one in Australia, that their DNS pointed to a site in the United Kingdom,…

Some of you may recall that Aunty told you about Christopher Pierson, the British man who skulked about the tsunami disaster support boards, and wrote to those who were looking for loved ones feared lost in the disaster that, indeed, their loved ones had perished (sick b*st*ard. Oops…did Aunty say…

The newest spam scam to hit eBay users is a spam which is infected with what is known as a “keylogger”. When a user opens the infected email, which then has them log into their eBay account, it can record the keystrokes typed by the user, capturing the user’s account…

For those of you who have never ventured beyond the world of Windows, you may not realize the number of websites which people such as I, who don’t use Windows, encounter which are not only “optimized to work with Internet Explorer”, but which simply won’t work with any browser other…

Microsoft’s spyware program is one of the first to use the new Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) process of determining whether your version of Windows is legitimate or pirated.

Are you worried about your neighbors tapping in to and using your home wireless computer network? Or, worse, about wardrivers hijacking your wifi and using it to send a run of spam? Well, a Sunnyvale, California company has a suggestion for you: paint your house. “But,” you whine, “my problem…

The Attorney General of Texas, and Microsoft, this week announced that the Texas Attorney General has filed a lawsuit against a Texas university student, Ryan Samuel Pitylak, and his California partner, Mark Stephen Trotter. Microsoft was one of a group of recipients of the spam, along with Texas anti-spam activist…

Everyone knows that you shouldn’t drink and drive. A lesser known, but perhaps equally dire warning is “teenagers, digital cameras, and Internet access don’t mix well”. Consider the recent case of a group of cheerleaders from Thomas S. Wootton High School, in Rockville, Maryland. By all accounts this group of…

Jeffrey Johnson may well consider this a fate worse than their locking him up and throwing away the key. I mean, which would you rather face: a life of freedom with no Internet, or life in the slammer with free Internet access. Of course, Johnson didn’t get to make that…