Social Issues

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

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Popular Mechanics December 24, 2007	Dozens of Major Web Sites Hacked by 'Body' Over Holiday A hacker calling him or herself "Body" broke in to at least 20 websites as of Sunday afternoon, targeting blogs as well as well-established news outlets.
InternetNews December 21, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Malware Now Hiding As Google Toolbar Buttons It looks like a Toolbar add-on. It installs like a Google app. But it's not a Google Toolbar button - it's malicious code pretending to be legit.
InternetNews December 19, 2007 Kenneth Corbin	A New Generation of Web Savvy 'Super-Communicators' As they spread across the social Web, more teenagers are using multiple communication channels to keep up with their friends.
InternetNews December 19, 2007	Trojan Found in Google Text Ads BitDefender says ads placed by Google in Web pages are being hijacked by Trojan software that replaces the intended text with ads from a different provider.
InternetNews December 17, 2007 Kenneth Corbin	Who's Doing All The Ego Surfing? A new study,"Digital Footprints: Online Identity Management and Search in the Age of Transparency," finds that more and more people are plugging their own names into search engines to find out what kind of personal information is available about them on the Web.
PC Magazine November 28, 2007 Lisa Zyga	The Risks of a Wireless World Are the claims of health effects from cell phones and Wi-Fi overblown?
PC Magazine November 28, 2007 Dan Costa	Your Body, Online The idea of having my medical records out there freaks me out, but the truth is, they are already out there: My doctor has paper files, my insurance company has databases, and I have very little control.
Reason December 2007 Jacob Sullum	A Dirty Job Paid to watch porn: Thanks to a $150,000-a-year federal grant, Tom Rogers has been collecting and vetting citizen complaints about online sexual material under a program run by Morality in Media.
T.H.E. Journal December 2007 Jeff Weinstock	eNough Already The internet has changed the way we live, work - and spell.
InternetNews December 7, 2007 Andy Patrizio	U.S. Lab Falls Victim to Phishing Attack Thieves stole 14 years of visitors' personal data in a sophisticated malware attack.
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