A Korean man has hung himself while video chatting with his girlfriend. After the two got into an online argument, police say, the young man suddenly got up, and hung himself while his girlfriend was watching.

Wullik.B (W32.Wullik.B@mm) has infected the Zen Neeon MP3 player. Creative says that nearly 4,000 of the Zen Neeon MP3 players were shipped with the worm, and has issued a recall.

Rapex is a new anti-rape device which is worn like a diaphragm, only it has sharp teeth which clamp down on any foreign object.

Your online resume may be ripe for a new scam by identity thieves in which they simply lift all of your personal information from your resume and assume your identity.

Movies may be available simultaneously in the theaters and on DVD as studios contemplate earlier release dates for DVDs in an effort to get the jump on movie pirating. Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, the Motion Picture Association has gotten an open search warrant for the entire city of New Delhi, India.

The Wakamaru Robot is a human child shaped robot which will house sit for you when you are away. The first latchkey robot!

Cellular phones get a power boost from a hamster and his wheel, as a British teenager invents the first recorded hamster-powered cellular phone charger.

A new survey says that women have safer web surfing and Internet security habits than do men. Some question these findings, while others point out that neither is being particularly safe.

The Zobot Botzor.exe (a/k/a worm-rbot.cbq, rbot.cbq, and rbot.ebq) and Mytob worm authors are believed to have been arrested in Turkey and Morroco. Authorities in both countries, in cooperation with the FBI and Microsoft, arrested Farid Essebar and Atilla Ekici, using online nicknames Diab10 and Coder, who are believed to have authored the worms.

Spyware which redirects a user’s computer to a particular website is not uncommon, and may be quite lucrative. But can lead to jail.

Robots that house-sit while you are away! And they even will call you and send you a video of what’s going on in your house!

Bluecasting has been accused of Bluetooth spamming, and tries to explain why what they do is different.

Sister Furong, whose real name is Shi Hengxia, and who goes by the Chinese “Furong Jiejie” (which means “Sister Furong”, which in turn means “Sister Hibiscus” or “Sister Lotus”, depending upon to which interpretation you adhere), may not be a household name here in the United States (yet) but she…

The new proposed TLD (top level domain), .XXX, has run into fierce opposition from President Bush and his administration, along with conservative groups and even governments around the world. The .XXX top level domain, which has already been preliminarily approved by ICANN, is to be reserved for adult content, and…

The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) has just released the results of a three-month long probe during which they confirmed that there has been a boon in the trading of both endangered species, and endangered animal parts (sigh), in online markets. On eBay alone, the International Fund for Animal…