Wondering about the perfect gift for the iPodite in your life? Well, look no further. How about their own personal iPod ad – you know, those trendy dark silhouettes on a vibrant background, with a standout white iPod and headset prominently featured? Well, that’s just what IPodMyPhoto.com will give you,…

The United States Air Force has announced that it has gotten with the times. No longer prohibiting its members from using an instant messenger client to chat with people outside the company, such as loved ones back home, the Air Force has taken the bold step of embracing the technoloogy,…

Internet giant America Online (AOL) has said that they are in beta testing with a new free webmail service, along the lines of Hotmail, Yahoo, and Gmail. Dubbed “AOL Mail on the Web” (AMW? AOLMW?), it is already available to existing AOL members who registered to beta-test the product, and…

In April of 2001, a little known international cooperative aimed at stopping online software piracy had toted up an impressive 120 searches in 27 of the United States, and in 11 other countries. Dubbed “Operation Fastlink”, the project is billed by the U.S. Justice Department as “the largest multinational law…

SpamItBack is a software which you can download, and which claims to allow you to create a message which you’d like to get across to those who spam you, and to “target the spammers websites, online ordering forms, or any personal spam e-mail addresses that have been discovered, with your…

Two new wide-spread and far-reaching security flaws have been identified in Windows. And not content to just identify the flaws, the Chinese “security” (and Aunty uses the term advisedly) firm, VenusTech, has also posted the code necessary to exploit the flaws. That story was picked up and posted by the…

There are just so many facets and angles to this story, it’s almost impossible to determine if there is a right and a wrong, let alone who is which. Justin Ellsworth, of Wixom, Michigan, was killed last month while on foot patrol in Iraq. John Ellsworth, the grieving father of…

Earlier this week we told you that the former AOL employee who stole the email addresses of 92 million AOL users, and then sold them to a spammer for $100,000, was due in Federal court and was going to plead “guilty” to charges that he violated CAN-SPAM. It was anticipated…

Information Security Magazine, following extensive review, has published its list of the top security products for 2004. Evaluating products in a baker’s dozen of categories, and with a first, second, and third place in each (gold, silver, and bronze, respectively), this is one extensive and thorough cross-product comparison! Aunty particularly…

The Computer Ethics Institute is part and parcel of the Brookings Information Technology Services, a division of the world-famous Brookings Institution in Washington D.C.. Tracing its origins back to 1916, the Brookings Institution is often at the fore of public policy research and discourse. Back in 1992, Dr. Ramon Barquin,…

You may recall that last week Aunty reported that an advanced computer class at Chicago University had found 44 security holes in Unix. Well, its kissing cousin, Linux, the people who brought you that adorable penguin, Tux, is more secure, even unpatched, than are other computer systems, and specifically Windows,…

In keeping with our strewing the occasional light-hearted Geeky Christmas post in among all the heavy Internet nasties, and having brought you Mr. Komarnitsky and his holiday lights, which you can turn on and off at will with your browser, the Internet Patrol will now boldly go where no Internet Patrol has gone before, and show you a Christmas tree with more geekiness than you can shake a tribble at.

First it was spam – the junk email we all know and love to hate. Then it was spim, which is spam sent by instant messenger (hence the “i m”). Move over boys, and meet “spit”. Spit is spam sent to a Voice Over IP (VoIP) connection, another name for…

Jerry Smathers, a former AOL employee who first made the news by stealing more than 92 million AOL user email addresses, and selling them to spammers, is now facing up to two years in prison for his misdeed. Due in court in New York on Tuesday, it is anticipated that…

Network World Fusion has just released the results of its test of forty-one spam filters! Apparently when they put out the word that they would be reviewing spam filters, they had anticipated that maybe ten or so would show up to the party. Instead they were astonished to find forty-one…