Technology has put a stop to a lot of mischief. For instance, you no longer can call the store and ask if they have Prince Albert in a can. Thanks to caller ID, they’ll know exactly which idiot you are when you say, “well, you’d better let him out!”
The Prince Albert-in-a-can joke may be dead, [...]

The third episode of the GeekCast Show was roughly an hour of Sam Harrelson, Jim Kukral and myself chatting it up about web celebs, affiliate network interfaces, iJustine, Jim’s super masculine GuyLights, and my new GeekCast hat that was banned by my wife.
My Banned GeekCast HatWe also opined on the TechCrunch presidential endorsements, Sam’s journey [...]

I’ve heard a lot about the "hey, you could break CAPTCHAs by showing people porn in exchange for solving them!" theory, but I haven’t seen a live example yet. Just found one linked to from a word salad spam blog that came up in Google Blog Search results.
(No, don’t click on it, it has a [...]

One year ago this month, Spamhaus launched the Policy Block List, also known as the PBL. Now a year later we look back to see what effect it has had.
The PBL was created to be a used together with our other DNSBL zones, the SBL and the XBL. At the same time as the PBL [...]

Spam has risen for the sixth quarter in a row, with 96.4% of all e-mail now spam, says network monitoring firm Ipswitch.
Using its Spamometer system, which measures e-mail that is received, Ipswitch said the increase in spam for the quarter just gone compared with 95% the previous quarter, and the 84% for the same quarter [...]

Spam emails, purporting to deliver a money-transfer notification from Western Union, but containing an attachment with an executable trojan, have been spotted in the wild by researchers at Sunbelt Software.
The emails tell the recipient that $3,750 has been transferred to them by Western Union and includes a tracking number and transfer sheet, Alex Eckelberry, Sunbelt [...]

A website that claims to help surfers get rid of spyware actually infects visitors, a security firm has claimed.

Trend Micro discovered the website, known as Removal-tool.com, linked to other web pages that would infect surfers with spyware programs.

"Who’d suspect that a professional-looking anti-spyware site will give them just the opposite of what they’re looking for [...]

F-Secure Corporation
F-Secure and Sony Ericsson partner to deliver Mobile Security for UIQ
Helsinki, Finland January 23rd - F-Secure Corporation, the global leader in
providing security as a service through mobile operators and Internet Service
Providers, is today announcing the availability of its Mobile Security
product for the UIQ platform. F-Secure and Sony Ericsson are partnering on
supplying mobile security to [...]

Rising Antivirus 2007 protects your computers against all types of viruses, Trojans, worms, rootkits and other malicious programs. Ease of use and Smartupdate technology make Rising Antivirus 2007 an "install and forget" product and entitles you to focus on your own jobs with your computer. Key Features: Checkmark.com and TUV Certified Protection against Wildlist-viruses, Trojans; [...]

Russian antivirus company Kaspersky has launched a hosted email-filtering service.
Kaspersky Hosted Security Services, launched on Monday, is an anti-spam and anti-malware service aimed at small to medium-sized businesses.
David Em, senior technology consultant for Kaspersky, said the hosted service will use the vendor’s anti-malware engine to scan email. The technology comprises an antivirus engine plus behavioural [...]