Social Issues

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

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InternetNews April 14, 2009 Alex Goldman	Credit Cards, Banks Targeted by Cyber Criminals Sophisticated criminal gangs are organized and focused on stealing, buying and selling identities across shadowy online markets.
InternetNews April 13, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	Twitter Still Under Siege by Worm Now in its fourth variant, a cross-site scripting attack continues spreading across the popular microblogging service.
InternetNews April 13, 2009 Sean Michael Kerner	Conficker Hits Utah The persistent worm claims a fresh pack of victims.
InternetNews April 10, 2009 Alex Goldman	Security Firms Warn: Data Thieves Love Tax Time There's a significant amount of your valuable personal data traveling over the Internet, and organized crime is working hard to obtain it.
InternetNews April 10, 2009 Alex Goldman	FBI Throws Data-Sharing Tech at Serial Killings The Internet allows law enforcement agencies to collaborate in tracking highly mobile criminals who have escaped detection for years - sometimes for decades.
InternetNews April 10, 2009 Sean Michael Kerner	Conficker's 'Kido' Spinoff Gets Busy Spamming Report says one bot can send up to 80,000 e-mails a day.
Search Engine Watch April 10, 2009 Frank Watson	Extortion SEO Sanctioned by Google Google has taken a hard-line approach to link buying, but they've left the door open for another profitable niche: extortion SEO. Sites like Ripoff Report have perfected the art of maligning businesses and then charging them to get that information removed. And Google has no problem with it.
InternetNews April 9, 2009 Sean Michael Kerner	Conficker Evolves With New Variant Last week's inscrutable threat is at it again.
InternetNews April 8, 2009 Sean Michael Kerner	Mafiaboy: Conficker Was a Ruse This convicted hacker argues that Conficker demonstrates that the Internet is still broken - 10 years after he first brought it to its knees.
InternetNews April 6, 2009 Sean Michael Kerner	Say Hello to Conficker's Cousin, Neeris Conficker isn't the only worm out there exploiting a vulnerability that often remains unpatched.
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