Will people never learn? Apparently not, as California’s Blue Security brings us Blue Frog, YADDASP (Yet Another DDOSing Anti-Spam Program). The underpinning of start-up Blue Security’s Blue Frog is the “Do Not Intrude” registry. Users register up to three email addresses with the registry, and when spam comes to a…

Security experts are saying that Apple’s iPod is the newest rage. Not among the teen set, Gen-Xers, or even baby boomers, but among criminals. Now, it’s true that the use isn’t novel, just the choice of device, but as Marshall Mcluhan so deftly noted, the medium is the message. So…

Like Christopher Pierson, the Tsunami Spammer before him, some sicko has decided to take advantage of the recent bombing in London, and to use them as a hook for his (or her) spam, which carries a Trojan horse to the victim’s computer. The spam bearing the Trojan claims to offer…

Have you heard about “Dog Poop Girl”? No, she’s not some new style superhero, although I do believe that her partner, Dog Poop Man, has made an appearance on “Whose Line Is It Anyways?” (couldn’t you just watch Ryan Stiles and Colin Mochrie for hours?) No, Dog Poop Girl is…

California Senator Debra Bowen, known for her tough stance against spam, is now taking a shot (no pun intended) at what she sees as another Internet scourge: real-time remote Internet hunting of live game. While some consider the Senator’s stand on the remote “sport” to be emotional and anti-gun, Internet…

Aunty found this most unfortunate placement for an ad for Sprint, in an article about a new medical use for Viagra: New Use for Viagra: Treating Lung Disease Advertisement: No downtime. No waiting for answers. Get complete end-to-end managed wireless service from Sprint. Management that includes data security for lost…

Says Codeman38: “My current favorites are the ones mentioned in [Page no longer available – we have linked to the archive.org version instead]. Sexy dead singles and WMDs!”

Aunty reader Ian McKenzie submits this stupid Adsense ad he saw recently: Beef Jerky New and used Beef Jerky. aff Check out the deals now. “Mmmmmm,” says Ian, “used beef jerky.” Mmmm indeed!

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…

Some people are sick. Really sick. But Christopher Pierson, of London, England really takes the cake. Pierson, a 40-year-old father of two (oh my, his poor children), was arrested and arraigned yesterday for sending spam to those known to be looking for lost loved ones, in the wake of last…

Forget upskirting and downblousing. What do you call it when you take a video of yourself during an..um…intimate moment – with a camera phone for chrissakes? How about this one: what do you call it when you take a video of yourself during an intimate moment with a camera phone,…

Blogs became a front-running source of information during Tuesday’s election, as millions flocked to political blogs to get a taste of early exit poll numbers, available on blogs often hours before the more traditional news media doled them out. Nevermind that early can also mean unchecked, or in some cases…