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

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InternetNews October 3, 2006 Andy Patrizio	Yahoo Gets Hacked And Likes It More than 250 hackers descended on Yahoo's Sunnyvale, Calif., headquarters last Friday, but in this case, they were welcomed by the management.
InternetNews October 3, 2006 Roy Mark	Cyber Criminals Turn to Home Users Phishing and spam are on a dramatic rise as home users become the prime targets of online criminals. Attacks are up 81 percent over the last six months and spam jumped 50 percent over the same period.
The Motley Fool October 3, 2006 Jeff Hwang	Did Congress Kill Online Poker? Regulation, not prohibition, is the answer to online poker. Poker isn't a form of gambling any more than buying stock is, and it should be exempt from the new law, as horse racing and state-run lotteries are. Investors, take note.
IEEE Spectrum October 2006 David Kushner	Making Computer Crime Sexy A look at cyber crime in the movies and real life.
IEEE Spectrum October 2006	Money for Nothing In the book by Julian Dibbell, Play Money: Or, How I Quit My Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot, the ultimate conclusion is that the boundary between the real and virtual worlds, or between work and play, is becoming increasingly blurred and mobile.
InternetNews September 29, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner	IM Attacks on The Rise New IM attacks are more stealthful than before so you might not even know you've been hit.
PC Magazine September 27, 2006 Robert Lemos	Your Own Personal Matrix How rootkits can take over your computer and steal data under your nose and how to stop them.
InternetNews September 26, 2006 Ed Sutherland	VML Exploit Subsiding, Questions Remain Microsoft said it is "working non-stop" to develop a fix for a fresh round of attacks exploiting a flaw in the VML portion of Internet Explorer.
The Motley Fool September 26, 2006 Alyce Lomax	Searching for Privacy Online Three of the folks whose search data was leaked onto the Web by Time Warner's AOL unit are suing the company for the blunder. The lawsuit against AOL may very well have ramifications that surpass AOL's own search services and policies.
InternetNews September 25, 2006 Ed Sutherland	Report: Home Users Blind To Hackers According to a new status report from security vendor Symantec, home users are the target of 86 percent of attacks. Financial services ranked second, the target of 84 percent of phishing attempts in the first half of 2006.
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