Aunty just found out this week that American Express offers this great service called the Credit Card Registry. If you subscribe to the American Express credit card registry, and your wallet or purse (or wherever you keep your credit cards and i.d.) is lost or stolen, all you have to…

The Institute for Spam and Internet Public Policy (ISIPP) is offering a teleseminar to help email senders, and email marketers and email service providers in particular, understand what they need to do in order to comply with the new child protection email address registry laws which went effect on Friday,…

Here’s reason #399 to bring your laptop with you wherever you go. And just in time for long-weekend, holiday, and summer vacation travel. In these days of incredibly long waits at the airport, most people already expect to spend a couple of hours cooling their heels once they get there,…

Microsoft has announced the release of their updated Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA), version 2.0. For those of you not familiar with this nifty piece of free software, it essentially scans your computer for security risks, including poor or sloppy configuration, security holes which have not been patched, and the…

I scream, you scream, we all scream for free ice cream! At Starbucks, today! Ok, yes, Aunty realizes that this has little to do with Internet nasties, but you all know that your Aunty is a fiend for Starbucks. In fact, you can buy Aunty a latte here, or even…

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…

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…

You can get a free American Flag, in honour of Flag Day, from online flag retailer AmericanFlag.com! Here’s their announcement: HUNTINGTON STATION, N.Y., June 13 /PRNewswire/ — AmericanFlags.com will offer its website visitors free American Flags all day on Tuesday, June 14th in honor of Flag Day. The U.S. flags…

It must be the week for cute web animations. First Consumer Union did their cute web animation lampooning drug ads, and now the Federal Trade Commission has released a web animation for Fathers’ Day, featuring a father fish teaching his little fishies how not to fall victim to the phishers….

Now here’s a novel use of the web. Consumer Union is lobbying Congress to tighten drug safety laws, following the wave of people who have been injured or worse after taking such approved drugs as Vioxx and Bextra. As part of their effort, they are lampooning the rash of drug…

Internet web portal and ISP Yahoo, and router and software giant Cisco, have joined forces to jointly produce an anti-spam product based on Yahoo’s Domain Keys and Cisco’s Identified Internet Mail system. Domain Keys, which was announced last year, is Yahoo’s entry into the email authentication space. “Yahoo is receiving…

[Spam Wars author Danny Goodman doesn’t just write about spam wars – he’s actively engaged in the trenches. Here, guest author Danny Goodman, fresh from the ordeal, tells us about taking aim at a phisher just last night.] May 10, 2005 Imagine That: Phishers Are Cynical One newbie PayPal phisher…

Even before security became one of the top issues on the Internet, remembering passwords was a hassle, admit it. Far too many of us recycle the same password or few passwords, over and over, knowing that we shouldn’t, and hoping that nobody catches on to us, tricks us into revealing…

A St. Petersburg, Florida veterinarian nailed a wardriver he caught parked outside his home, jacked into his Internet connection. Realizing that there was someone surreptitiously using his Internet connection, the unnamed veterinarian called St. Petersburg police, who quickly came and arrested Benjamin L. Smith III, who was sitting outside the…