Social Issues

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

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InternetNews December 5, 2006 Andy Patrizio	Vista, 3rd-Party eMail And The Malware Mix Antivirus vendor Sophos ran a little Windows Vista security test. Guess who failed? Third party Webmail providers.
PC Magazine November 29, 2006 John C. Dvorak	Unreal Life? Get a Life When early online social-networking schemes appeared, I was skeptical about their usefulness.
PC Magazine November 29, 2006 Robert Lemos	Hacking for Dollars Viruses and worms are so last-decade. Today's PC users have to worry more about online burglary than stolen bandwidth.
Bank Technology News November 2006 Glen Fest	Phishing: URL Deceit: Who's on The Beat? The 'Citibank.com' domain name is available to anybody who wants it (including phishers). Is a free market in all domain names a common good?
InternetNews November 29, 2006 Roy Mark	Child-Modeling Site Owners Indicted The Department of Justice claims a child-modeling site served as front for child pornography.
Wired December 2006 Noah Shachtman	Murder on MySpace When violent crime strikes a social network, the ghosts of the dead start roaming the machines.
InternetNews November 28, 2006 Ed Sutherland	Google Catches Phishing Flaw in Appliances Security experts are warning the computing world about a new security vulnerability in Google's Search Appliance and Google Mini device that may yield more phishing attacks.
PC World November 20, 2006 Andrew Brandt	Privacy Watch: Phishers Put Their Lures on Cell Phones Phishing scammers have begun sending deceptive short message service (SMS) messages to people's mobile sets.
InternetNews November 22, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner	Phishers Lurk For Firefox 2.0 Password Manager Using password manager to keep passwords in Firefox? You could be at risk.
InternetNews November 22, 2006 Brian Livingston	Behavior Blocking Coming to (Some) PCs EarthLink plans to offer a novel security technology to its millions of customers within the next month.
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