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Magazine articles on the internet's impact on society, privacy, spam, hacking, scams, regulation.

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InternetNews August 1, 2006 Michael Hickins	The Word on E-mail Authentication In a step that should help slash the volume of unwanted and pernicious e-mail, a group developing technical specs for the e-mail authentication standard DKIM, has just completed a major portion of its work.
The Motley Fool August 1, 2006 Anders Bylund	MPAA Goes After the Wrong Target A rich, technically savvy, and possibly innocent lawsuit target could spell trouble for the MPAA and RIAA's blanket lawsuit tactics. Maybe the MPAA bit off more than it could chew with its blind fumbling for alleged Internet miscreants.
Bank Systems & Technology July 28, 2006 Gregg Keizer	Phishers Beat Citibank's Two-Factor Authentication Nearly three-dozen phishing Web sites have targeted Citibank business customers with a new scheme that circumvents two-factor authentication.
InternetNews July 27, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner	Firefox 1.5.0.5 Fixes JavaScript Flaws Firefox 1.5.0.5 out today is the latest release of the open source browser and patches no fewer than seven critical flaws, with some form of JavaScript issue being at the heart of most of them.
InternetNews July 27, 2006 Andy Patrizio	Digg Fans Deface Netscape Site A hack on Netscape.com by fans of the community-driven news aggregator Digg was minor and more reflective of ill feelings between Web site communities than a great hacking exploit.
Wired August 2006 Brett Forrest	The Sleazy Life and Nasty Death of Russia's Spam King He withheld pay from employees, boasted of his sexual adventures, enraged government officials, and flooded Russia with 25 million emails a day. Then one morning, Vardan Kushnir's mother found his bloodied body on the bathroom floor, skull bashed in.
InternetNews July 25, 2006 Roy Mark	House OKs Stronger Online Child Protections Wide-ranging legislation targets persons deceptively luring children to sex sites.
InternetNews July 24, 2006 Tim Scannell	U.S. Atop 'Dirty Dozen' Spam List The U.S. again snatched the top prize as the world's leading spam throughway for the third year in a row.
InternetNews July 21, 2006 Erin Joyce	Old UTM is Still New in Network Security Research firm IDC, in its security trends forecast for 2006, said chief security officers, as well as other executives whose job it is to evaluate risk, must account for the broadening scope of emerging threats.
InternetNews July 21, 2006 Brian Livingston	Phishing Filter Prevents E-Mail Identity Theft Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University have figured out a way to almost entirely detect and filter out phishing e-mails.
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