Social Issues

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

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Wired August 23, 2007 John Robb	When Bots Attack If you want to bring down a country's information infrastructure and you don't want anyone to know who did it, the weapon of choice is a distributed denial of service attack.
Wired August 23, 2007 Ralph Peters	Washington Ignores Cyberattack Threats, Putting Us All at Peril 21st-century-warfare will be to deny entire states the ability to process, protect, and communicate information. The Pentagon doesn't seem to fully grasp the dangerous potential of this new domain of warfare.
Wired August 21, 2007 Joshua Davis	Hackers Take Down the Most Wired Country in Europe How Estonia dealt with a botnet strike that targeted almost every digital front all at once.
Wired August 21, 2007 Nadya Labi	An IM Infatuation Turned to Romance. Then the Truth Came Out. A twisted tale of Internet deceit, infidelity, and murder.
PC Magazine September 4, 2007 Isabelle Groc	Cyberbullying: Taunting with Tech Cyberbullying is on the rise in America's schools.
InternetNews August 14, 2007 Nicholas Carlson	Report: Facebook Users Loose With The Info According to a new report from Sophos, 41 percent of Facebook users will divulge crucial identity data points to just about anybody.
InternetNews August 10, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Stopping Spammers at The Point of Sale New research suggests going after the commerce sites listed in spam mail, but some have already been doing just that.
Bank Systems & Technology July 12, 2007 Larry Greenemeier	Link Between Data Breaches And ID Theft Unclear, GAO Reports A U.S. Government Accountability Office report indicates that while the amount of information lost or stolen is disturbing, it's difficult to prove that these breaches lead to identity theft.
InternetNews August 8, 2007 Nicholas Carlson	Going Phishing Off the Facebook Platform? Facebook's popularity grows by the month, but some cracks are starting to show in the platform.
InternetNews August 8, 2007 Nicholas Carlson	Netflix Gets Hacked Netflix is under attack from a hacker who found a way to keep the company's downloaded movies.
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