Social Issues

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

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PC World February 21, 2007 Stuart J. Johnston	Critical IE Graphics Flaw Resurfaces Microsoft-only Internet graphics format exploited... More Office holes... A major Adobe problem that affects all browsers...
Inc. March 2007 Leigh Buchanan	The Office: I Am Not :) You're an adult. Quit it with the smiley faces.
InternetNews February 27, 2007 Ed Sutherland	Storm Trojan Takes Social Measures Storm Trojan uses Web mail, blogs and message boards as conduits for spreading malware code.
InternetNews February 27, 2007 Ed Sutherland	Verizon Wireless Closes Spammer Case Judgment ends 2005 Bahamas cruise text messaging spam case.
Bank Technology News February 2007 Holly Sraeel	ID Theft Needs Little Fuel to Fan The Flames. Or Does It? With financial crime -- particularly cybercrime -- becoming more sophisticated among for-profit criminals, some industry observers argue that ID fraud is rising, and that many victims are still unaware of it.
Bank Technology News February 2007 Glen Fest	Identity Fraud: ID Theft Victims, Losses Take Welcome Nosedive New account vulnerabilities are toughened, but 'vishing,' limited alerts practices, and consumers' misguided personal trust in acquaintances still leave the doors wide open.
Bank Technology News February 2007 Michael Dumiak	Web Risk: A Growing Web's Harder To Secure As Web 2.0 applications and uses become more widespread, it'll be more than the created communities that are vulnerable. The increase of functionality, the richness of sites, creates more vectors for attack.
Bank Technology News February 2007 Andrea Klein	Losses Rise If Reputation is Compromised The banking industry has begun to recognize the true cost of a tarnished reputation. The next and more challenging step for many is mitigating reputational risk, especially as it relates to online security breaches.
InternetNews February 23, 2007 Sean Michael Kerner	Mozilla Patches Some Firefox Holes Mozilla makes it tougher to execute cross site scripting attacks but has it left a critical password bug open?
PC Magazine February 14, 2007 Aaron Dalton	Bloggers: All Typed Out? A Gartner study says blogging will peak in 2007. Have net citizens finally run out of things to talk about?
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