The Internet Patrol

This should be an interesting gathering. Now, if they can only get it together to actually accomplish something, unlike so many of the industry get-togethers, where there’s a lot of talk, but little outcome: Industry Recognizes the Urgency of E-Mail Authentication and Issues Call to Action to Help Protect Customers…

Much has been made of the recent announcement that Apple is going to start using Intel CPUs. For the most part people think that this is either pretty cool, or no big deal, depending on where you sit. Many people seem to think that, particularly with the advent of the…

In the world of really dumb ideas, this one is, well…really dumb. Actually the underlying concept is not dumb, but the execution surely is. Spam Mimic is a new site which allows you to encrypt your email into an unreadable code so that it looks like spam. The recipient on…

Online security company Secunia has said this week that versions of Firefox and Mozilla, as well as the lesser known Camino, are again at risk for a frame injection security flaw which has dogged Mozilla on and off for nearly seven years. The problem, which plagues Firefox versions 1.x, Mozilla…

A new service is offering celebrity mugshots to download as wallpaper for your cellphone. Who wouldn’t want to take a call to Carmen Electra, Yasmine Bleeth, or Anna Nicole Smith’s smiling face? Well, ok, maybe they aren’t exactly smiling as, yes, these are real mugshots. As the purveyor, Celebrity Mugshots…

As some of her gentle readers know, Aunty is an Amazon affiliate. That means that from time to time Aunty gets a heads up on some great deals at Amazon which may be of interest to Aunty’s readers. Examples include the Replay TV for only $49.74 earlier this year, and…

A new email worm being carried in email purporting to contain pictures of a captured Osama Bin Laden has failed to elicit the likely intended response – releasing the worm and allowing it to spread. According to spokespersons at both F-Secure and McAfee, the worm was unleashed last week, attached…

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…

In the latest in a rash of incidents in which the personal data of customers of various institutions has been compromised, Citigroup has revealed that the personal account information of 3.9 million customers has gone missing. 3.9 million customers. Wow. In one fell swoop, the number of people in the…

Not content to just do its normal wormly dirty work, a new variation on the infamous Bagle worm, Win32.Glieder, brings with it two companion Trojans, Win32.Fantibag and Win32.Mitglieder (literally, in German, “with Glieder”). Said Chris Thomas, a security architect with Computer Associates, “We’ve seen blended threats before where a virus…

AOL’s previously announced Instant Messenger-based AIM Mail email system is now a reality. Windows users who upgrade to the new AIM version 5.9 will have access to the new web-mail service, which is one of the first of its kind to integrate instant messenger and email service. As Aunty has…

This is an update on the Gpic.aol worm which is borne by AOL Instant Messenger (AIM). This is the worm which spreads itself by sending the target (that’s you) an instant message via AIM which says “damn this looks just like me lol”. According to some sources, the worm is…

A newly discovered worm dubbed “Gpic.aol” and being transported via AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) arrives as an instant message along the lines of “damn this looks just like me lol” and proffering a link which claims to be a link to pictures.google.com However, as soon as the unwitting recipient clicks…

They are calling it the “Sex Degrees of Separation” website. Shagster.net is the Friendster or Linked-In of the intimate relationship. Slept with someone? Register them on Shagster.net. Slept with several, or several dozen someones? Register them all on Shagster.net! According to Shagster founder Chris Leate, “The idea came from the…

It seems like just yesterday that Aunty told you about how ISP and broadband providers are lobbying to prevent municipal wifi, which would keep you from being able to have city-wide free wifi such as some cities are now offering. Well, apparently some of the lobbyists took it to a…