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New July 1st Child Email Address Registry Laws a Big Surprise Affecting All Emailers

From Aunty’s friends over at the Institute for Spam and Internet Public Policy: NEW JULY 1st CHILD EMAIL ADDRESS REGISTRY LAWS A BIG SURPRISE AFFECTING ALL EMAILERS, WARNS INSTITUTE FOR SPAM AND INTERNET PUBLIC POLICY “Jail Time, Large Penalties, and Private Actions Facing All Commercial Emailers Who Fail to Comply,”…

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Download This, RIAA! The MP3 Toilet

Well, Aunty thought that she had heard of everything, but once again she was wrong. Move over, Internet urinal, and make room for the MP3 Toilet. Really. Now, the manufacturer, Toto Toilets, is actually known for making a very high quality, and almost unblockable product (not unlike much spam out…

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Outlook Express Flaw Elevated to Higher Risk

The security flaw in Outlook Express revealed by Microsoft in their June Security Bulletin, and covered by Aunty here, has taken on a new urgency as certain websites have begun sharing samples of the code required to take advantage of the security flaw. While the flaw is still considered to…

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Survey Says! Best ISP Is…

PC World has just released a survey they took of more than 6,000 Internet users, in order to determine who the best ISP was. And the answers may surprise you. The 6,000 survey participants, all PC World subscribers, were asked to rate their ISPs on a scale of 1 to…

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Canadian Adult Entertainers Unwilling to Bare All to New U.S. Rules

It seems that adult-themed websites in the United States aren’t the only ones up in arms over the new U.S. “Age Records” rule for adult content websites, which became a reality this week. Not only are adult industry performers in Canada concerned about the new rules, which require that anyone…

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Hotmail Users: Wondering Where Your Email Has Gone? Look in Your Junkfolder – Hotmail Requiring Sender ID

Microsoft has just announced that they are now requiring that email sent to Hotmail accounts must use Microsoft Sender I.D. or the email will be marked with a big yellow box and put in the junk folder or maybe even deleted. That big yellow box across the top of the…

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TrustSoft’s SpyKiller Scam Scans Canned with CAN-SPAM

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…

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Microsoft Advisory on Web Browser Phishing Trick Involving Overlapping Browser Windows

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…

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Friends Don’t Let Friends Dial Drunk (or Text SMS, Either)

Ok, forget drinking and carrying nude pictures of yourself on your cell phone. There is something even more stupid that you can do while drinking, with a cell phone. Drunk dialing, or drunk texting (text messaging) on your cell phone.

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An Internet Patrol Exclusive: Interview with Online Dating Site True.com’s CEO Herb Vest

An exclusive interview with True.com CEO Herb Vest, who is lobbying to make online dating sites required to perform criminal background checks on their members, or state publicly that they do not.

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A Public Service Announcement from the Internet Patrol and a Friend

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…

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CardSystems Compromises Data of 40 Million MasterCard and Visa Cardholders

In case you were listening to the radio or televion news today, yes, you heard it right, and your ears were not deceiving you. The credit card information of 40 million MasterCard and Visa cardholders was compromised when someone hacked into the computers of Arizona-based CardSystems Solutions. 40 million. That…

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Email Petition to Save NPR and PBS – Life Imitating Spam Imitating Life

Oh, the sweet recursiveness of it all. A petition to “Save NPR and PBS” is making the rounds by email. And like the Craig Shergold’s Postcards and Mrs. Field’s Cookie Recipe emails, “Save NPR and PBS” emails have been around a long time. The first recorded sighting for the Save…

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Adult-Themed Websites and Surfers Take Double Hit

Webmasters whose websites deal with adult content may soon have to start policing the ages of the models and performers who appear in content on their website, even if they did not generate or solicit the content – indeed even if the content is several years old or was acquired…

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Security Hole in Adobe PDF Reader and Acrobat PDF Viewer, Warns Adobe

Adobe Systems, the makers of the popular Adobe Acrobat, is warning today of a security hole in both their Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat PDF viewer software. Adobe Reader is a widely distributed and used free software program for viewing PDF files. According to the Adobe website, “The vulnerability is…