Social Issues

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

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InternetNews February 13, 2008 Larry Barrett	SIIA Takes eBay Pirates to Court A software association strikes its sharpest blow yet in its ongoing war with pirates hawking wares online.
AFP eWire February 11, 2008	IRS Warns Charities of Email Scam The Internal Revenue Service is warning charities of a new scam involving an email directed towards charitable organizations that informs them they are eligible for a tax refund.
InternetNews February 8, 2008 Sean Michael Kerner	Mozilla Update Quashes Slew of Firefox Flaws Ten fixes in Firefox 2.0.0.12 improve security, addressing cross-site scripting and other vulnerabilities.
InternetNews February 7, 2008 Andy Patrizio	Web 2.0: Unsafe At Any Speed? People who specialize in Web security are saying Web 2.0 as it is now can't be secured. Should we keep on this path?
InternetNews February 6, 2008 Andy Patrizio	Spammers Go Old School as Gimmicks Fail Symantec finds image-based spam is losing out in favor of text links that people still seem all too willing to click.
PC Magazine February 1, 2008 Eric Griffith	72 Tips for Safer Computing From the basics to the extreme, here are the tricks that will keep your computer, you, and your family secure and safe.
PC Magazine February 1, 2008 Eric Griffith	How to Reclaim Your Online Privacy We reveal the methods you need to surf, e-mail, IM, and more while reclaiming your ever-elusive online confidentiality.
InternetNews January 30, 2008 Andy Patrizio	Storm's Creators Face a Storm of Their Own Law enforcement knows who created one of the worst worms to hit the Internet. The hard part is arresting them.
InternetNews January 24, 2008 Andy Patrizio	Florida ISP Said to Host Terrorist Software A security researcher is disturbed to discover an ISP in his hometown appears to be hosting an encryption tool used by terrorists.
InternetNews January 23, 2008 Kenneth Corbin	IBM's Web 2.0 Platform Mashes Up Business, Social With a host of Web 2.0 announcements at Lotusphere, IBM moves forward with its social enterprise offerings.
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