Social Issues

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

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Reason March 2009 Jacob Sullum	Computer Abuse Legal peril for Web users
InternetNews February 27, 2009 Mike Elgan	Don't Hate Twitter Because it's Popular Commentary: Twitter itself is merely a medium, and one that is different and awesome precisely because every user can control exactly who to follow and what to post.
InternetNews February 25, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Online Trust Takes a Hit in Gmail Chat Phishing Security experts are warning that a phishing attack on Google's Gmail's chat feature not only poses a danger to users, but could be a harbinger of things to come.
PC Magazine February 25, 2009 John C. Dvorak	Our History: Error 404 At some point everyone will be reading on a Kindle or with erasable paper. That will mark the end of history, as everything will be subject to permanent erasure.
InternetNews February 24, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Supertoxic Site Infects eWeek.com Hackers attacked news site eWeek through DoubleClick network.
InternetNews February 24, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Hackers Pounce on Excel Vulnerability Hackers have launched a new attack that uses a previously undiscovered flaw in Microsoft Excel to target business executives and government agencies.
Bank Technology News February 2009 Daniel Wolfe	Another Processor Spills the Data Hackers have obtained payment card data from another processor, according to Visa Inc., though many of the details, including the name of the company, remain unclear.
InternetNews February 23, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Malware Authors Exploit Facebook App Is a bogus application making the rounds on Facebook just a failed marketing ploy? Or something more dangerous?
InternetNews February 20, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Hacker May Have Hit Over 97K at Univ. of Florida Why do people keep launching cyber attacks at the home of the Gators?
InternetNews February 20, 2009 David Needle	ShareThis Expands Social Widget UPDATED: New options aim to encourage content sharing.
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