Social Issues

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

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Information Today April 2008 Phillip Brett	Tax Time: Phishing Scams and Schemes And as the buzz surrounding online tax filing increases, so do the odds of getting scammed. Phishing scams abound that mimic IRS notices to try to get bank account and other personal information.
Bank Technology News April 1, 2008 Joe Sowerby	ID-Theft Fears Keep Clients Off the Web Adoption of online banking is increasing, but not nearly at the rate of broadband adoption. The main reason: fear of online identity fraud.
Search Engine Watch March 28, 2008 Marty Weintraub	Google Bombs, Jew Watch News & the Hypocritical Linking Universe The author's examination of "google bombing" and how this technique intersects with search engine optimization. Is Google hypocritical in its solutions to the problem of using links to determine relevancy?
InternetNews March 27, 2008 Kenneth Corbin	EU Backs IBM-Led Online Privacy Project European body commits $15.8 million to a research effort to help safeguard users of social networking and community sites.
InternetNews March 25, 2008 Sean Michael Kerner	Report: 90% of Web Sites Vulnerable to Hackers New study claims Cross-Site Scripting attacks are all over the place. Should we be afraid?
AskMen.com Terence Channon	Manage Your Online Persona In most cases, you have the choice of what shows up, where and in what light you paint yourself.
The Motley Fool March 18, 2008 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Scooby-Doo and Dot-Com, Too The Web is helping crime sleuths in some rather intriguing ways.
InternetNews March 7, 2008 Andy Patrizio	Is The Storm Worm Finally Blowing Over? A report by e-mail and content security firm Marshal claims that just six botnets are responsible for almost 90 percent of spam, but others in the spam filtering business disagree with the report's findings.
PC World February 20, 2008 Erik Larkin	Services Are Tapping People Power to Spot Malware Companies are turning to the wisdom of crowds to fight increasingly sophisticated phishing, spam, and nefarious sites.
PC Magazine February 8, 2008 Larry Seltzer	Porno Pop-ups How would you like to have sexually explicit content pop up over the Web site you're viewing?
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