Law enforcement has managed to round up 11 criminals who were behind the massive computer hacking scheme that resulted in the theft of millions of credit and debit card numbers as well as other personal information from retail giant TJX. Back when I first learned about the scheme, I posted that TJX needed a good [...]

News has been coming out on some of the big media sites (see CNN) about a serious flaw that allows hackers to control how traffic is routed on the internet. I’m not sure what took the media so long to catch this story, but this is something that has been known for a while, and [...]

How many times have you clicked on a link to a news story and then ended up at the brick wall that is the “Register” page? It happens to me all the time. I’m a regular reader of the Drudge Report, and as most Internet users know, that site contains many links to various news [...]

When high-speed Internet was introduced in my area about 6 years ago, I was thrilled to finally dump my slow dial-up service. There was one thing, however, that I really missed about my old dial-up service. I was getting my dial-up service from Earthlink (formerly Mindspring) back then and they had a very nice spam [...]

I got an e-mail yesterday that was obviously an attempt to infect my PC with something. A few years ago that something would very likely be a run-of-the-mill virus. These days however, it is more likely to be some kind of trojan program that would allow some hacker somewhere to turn my PC into a [...]

Maybe you have not noticed an increase in e-mail spam over the last week or two because you get so much of it under normal circumstances, but I can tell you that there has been a virtual storm of e-mail spam going on. I can always tell when this happens because a few spam messages [...]

It’s been a while since I have posted any information regarding e-mail scams. Frankly, I just got a bit sick of the same old scams arriving in my inbox all the time and I shut off the e-mail account that was attracting most of it. Just today one of my other e-mail accounts picked up [...]

Since I have eliminated most of my e-mail addresses that were receiving lots of spam, I was a bit surprised to see a new scam e-mail show up at one of my e-mail addresses. I have heard about these lottery scams before and have even received a few of them in the past, but this [...]

Despite all the precautions I take here to remain free of the various nasty things roaming around the net, occasionally I end up having to deal with this crap. This time one of my kids ended up infecting his PC with a ton of ad-ware. It was placing icons on his desktop and popping up [...]

I’ll have to give credit to the spammers and other varieties of internet-dwelling lowlife for one thing: They are a damn creative bunch! They have come up with some absolutely ingenious schemes to keep the money coming in. It used to be that a virus or worm or other nasty bit of software was released [...]