Social Issues

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The Motley Fool December 26, 2006 Selena Maranjian	Spam Works Don't let yourself fall prey to promises of easy riches via e-mails. You won't be the one getting rich. Hype, surge, sell, implode. It's a common pattern with penny stocks that causes many people to lose money.
InternetNews December 19, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner	Mozilla Fixes Firefox Flaws, Misses One Mozilla today updated Firefox 2.0 for the first time, but the upgrade lacks at least one fix for a well known and already disclosed flaw in the open source browsers.
InternetNews December 13, 2006 Brian Livingston	Has the 'SpamThru' Trojan Doubled Spam or Not? A Trojan horse named "SpamThru" that has reportedly taken over approximately 73,000 PCs.
InternetNews December 12, 2006 Roy Mark	Virginia AG Pushes Social-Network Legislation A new proposal would require convicted sex offenders to register e-mail addresses and IM names.
InternetNews December 12, 2006 David Needle	UCLA Database Hole Exposed 800,000 to ID Theft UCLA Web site touted the school's IT security the same day it discovered hackers had broken into its computer system.
InternetNews December 12, 2006 Roy Mark	Feds Target Online Business Scams A combined federal-state task force announced Tuesday a law enforcement sweep targeting bogus business opportunities and work-at-home scams, including several Internet operations.
InternetNews December 8, 2006 Roy Mark	Senators Want More Protection For Social Networks Proposed legislation would require registered sex offenders to submit e-mail addresses to authorities.
InternetNews December 6, 2006 Ed Sutherland	Can MySpace Protect Its People? MySpace said this week it has found a way to protect its users from convicted sexual offenders, but Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal calls it "ineffective."
InternetNews December 6, 2006 Roy Mark	Groups Target Another Spyware Operator FastMP3Search.com.ar is the latest alleged spyware operator to get caught in the crosshairs of consumer and advocacy groups.
InternetNews December 5, 2006 Ed Sutherland	MySpace Hit by QuickTime Worm Hackers attempted to steal the user data of MySpace visitors using an Apple QuickTime video and a vulnerability in the social-networking site.
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