Social Issues

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

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InternetNews January 13, 2009 Sean Michael Kerner	Oracle Patches 41 flaws in First 2009 Update The enterprise software giant claims it's doing a better job of finding vulnerabilities, but not everyone is so sure.
InternetNews January 12, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Financial E-mail Spam Skyrockets The bad guys really, really want your money.
National Defense January 2009 Magnuson & Rusling	'Scrambling Data' a Greater Threat Than Hacking Hackers defacing websites or stealing information is bad, but the destruction of computer data could be worse, said Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell, in one of his last speeches as a member of the Bush administration.
InternetNews January 9, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Spammers Leverage Battle in Gaza, CNN Bad guys spreading Trojans are becoming even more sophisticated in their attacks.
InternetNews January 9, 2009 Sean Michael Kerner	Another DNS flaw? ISC quietly issues update for BIND DNS flaw, should we be worried?
InternetNews January 9, 2009 Richard Adhikari	New Data Breach, Privacy Bills in Congress If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
InternetNews January 9, 2009 David Needle	What's Next for One Laptop Per Child? Downsizing at the low-cost notebook maker come amid a drive to offer free laptops to the poorest countries. Will it bounce back?
InternetNews January 8, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	FCC's Martin Reflects on Wins, Losses As his time at the helm of the FCC draws to a close, Kevin Martin talks about is tightrope act balancing an open market and regulation.
InternetNews January 7, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Beware Microsoft Update E-mail Spammers resume using fake system update warning.
InternetNews January 7, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Google Clears Spam Problems, Vows Cooperation Google is now no longer No. 3 on Spamhaus' list of top spam-enabling networks.
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