Michael Gracie 

Safe mode is the solution every computer technician tells you to employ right after you started deleting, just for shits and giggles, arbitrary lines in your Windows system registry. It lets you boot minimal features so you can fix your mistakes. It used to be a good avenue for cleaning pesky bugs too, but that [...]

Spammers are thwarting filters by putting their target email addresses in the sender line, and pushing the emails to invalid addresses, according to The Register. I’ve received about a half dozen bounced messages that may be related, and recollect they were coming from Postfix servers. If you see one, you will notice all the generic [...]

You’ve heard it numerous times (and more than once at Spamroll too) – a laptop full of personal data was just stolen. It is just plain ridiculous. Laptops are hardly the place to store hundreds of thousands of sensitive records, and leaving said laptop in a parked car, on table in a crowded coffee shop, [...]

The Data Accountability and Trust Act could be going to a House vote soon. Somehow, someway, I smell “CAN-SPAM 2,” only much more serious. The legislation provides for consumer notice in the event of a breach, but only if there is “reasonable risk of identity theft to the individual to whom the personal information relates, [...]

The Symbian part means phones like the Nokia 6682 I’m holding in my hand. The flexible part means the grip you have on it. If it is really flexible, someone could take that phone, install a spy program on it, and track all your mobile activity. FlexiSpy is being touted as a “tool to monitor [...]

A successful spammer can eat lots of fines and settlements, the magnitude of which may be subject to debate. But I would be hard pressed to find someone that disagrees with this: getting pushed into a supermax prison for spam related activities (notwithstanding attempting to arrange having a witness snuffed out) has got to be [...]

I thought I was dead, and looking down at myself reading the laptop screen. There is a pretty carefully crafted post on US economic uncertainties lying here – it almost seems out of place. Even the comments are uncharacteristic, and I have to say I agree with most of it. Debt at all levels, no [...]

While one guy was insinuating that network neutrality was going the way of the horsedrawn carriage, in the wrong forum at that, another was saying bandwidth utlization from apps like P2P was not really a big a deal right now. Quest CTO Peter Poll noted: “I… found that the traffic is well under what some [...]

..when you hear news like this.

I don’t suspect that someone with a 10,000+ positive rating at eBay would ever fall for a phishing exploit, but you never know. Someone did, and the pilfered account information was being hocked on a Russian website. Sunbelt found the site, and eBay got it knocked down. According to an eBay spokesperson, nobody knows how [...]