Social Issues

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

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InternetNews February 11, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Spammers Hijack Facebook Group of 1.5 Million Facebook site is taken over by get-rich-quick and other familiar spam.
InternetNews February 11, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Cybercriminals Launch Attacks Through Digg Bad guys leverage celebrities' names to put malware on victims' PCs.
Food Processing February 2009 Erin Erickson	Join the FoodProcessing Community Thanks to the wonders of social media, you can connect with other members of the food industry at the click of a mouse (and maybe a few keystrokes).
PC Magazine February 10, 2009 Bill Dyszel	Online Safety Tips for Facebook Fogeys Grownups, take note! Here is what you need to know before "friending" your first Facebook connection.
Information Today February 5, 2009 Barbara Quint	OCLC and Open Access: Riding to the Rescue or Rustling the Herd? OCLC has announced a partnership that would ultimately transfer an open access icon, the University of Michigan Library's OAIster service, to OCLC.
InternetNews February 2, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Are Legitimate Sites the Next Malware Threat? Businesses may be exposing their customers to malware by leaving their sites unpatched, IBM warns in a new study.
InternetNews January 29, 2009 Sean Michael Kerner	Does Your Browser Prevent Clickjacking? Last year no one even knew what Clickjacking was. Today, browsers claim to prevent it. Does it work?
InternetNews January 28, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Online Trust: A Thing of the Past? Malware attacks are turning the Web upside down, and complicating the efforts of security vendors and users to cope with the threats.
InternetNews January 27, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Spammers Ramp Up Short-Lived Web Sites Sites that are here today, gone tomorrow are difficult to track and block.
InternetNews January 26, 2009 Richard Adhikari	New Botnets Emerge as Older Peers Limp Along A changing of the guard has taken place among spam-spewing botnets. Who are some of the ones to watch?
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