Social Issues

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

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InternetNews July 29, 2009	Have You Been Hacked by Metasploit? Find Out! Didn't think it was possible to detect a Metasploit attack? New open source tool will change your mind.
InternetNews July 28, 2009	WASC Honeypot Opens Up With Open Source Attracting hackers with open proxies could help to identify more attacks.
InternetNews July 27, 2009	AT&T Block of 4chan Raises a Ruckus AT&T said it blocked a popular underground site to thwart an attack - but it's kicked up quite a fuss in the process.
HBS Working Knowledge July 27, 2009 Sarah Jane Gilbert	Social Network Marketing: What Works? Purchase decisions are influenced differently in social networks than in the brick-and-mortar world, says Harvard Business School professor Sunil Gupta. The key: Marketers should tap into the networking aspect of sites such as Facebook.
Search Engine Watch July 24, 2009 Frank Watson	Is Yellow Journalism the New Color of Content? There seems to be a trend in being sensational lately. Interestingly, the Internet has magnified this type of writing and editorial style to denigrate companies being discussed.
The Motley Fool July 23, 2009 Tim Beyers	This Mistake Could Ruin Your Financial Life Personal digital security has never been more important.
InternetNews July 21, 2009 Alex Goldman	Erin Andrews Virus Infects Search, Blogs The taping of the original video was a Peeping Tom crime that criminals are now exploiting to infect PCs.
InternetNews July 20, 2009	Microsoft, Sophos: Most Spam Comes From U.S. Where does spam come from? If you guessed the U.S., you'd be right.
Wired July 15, 2009 Douglas Wolk	Never Broadcast Your Relationship Status When you and your maybe-likely-soon-to-be ex cease to be an item and revert to singlehood, when should you revise your online relationship status?
AskMen.com	Virgin Islands Researchers Unveil Slavery Records A collection of slavery records newly available over the Internet may help thousands of people trace their families back to Africa through St. Croix, a former slave-trading hub in the Caribbean.
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