Social Issues

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

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InternetNews August 6, 2009	Twitter Goes Down in Denial-of-Service Attack Microblogging service Twitter this morning suffered downtime due to what company officials described as a denial-of-service attack.
AskMen.com	Teen Dies At Internet Rehab Controversy over the methods used in addiction-treatment camps led the Ministry of Health to issue a notice last month banning the use of electric shock therapy on Internet addicts at one hospital in eastern China.
Reason Aug/Sep 2009 Jesse Walker	Tweeting Under Fire Disaster researcher Jeannette Sutton explores how ordinary people create their own media during crises. The public isn't waiting for those press releases anymore.
InternetNews August 4, 2009	Businesses Not Immune to Botnets, Report Warns A new report delivers best practices on dealing with this spam vector.
PC Magazine August 1, 2009 Chloe Albanesius	Following Your Web Footsteps Does targeted advertising need to be regulated?
InternetNews July 31, 2009	Researchers: Conficker Still an Active Threat Over 5.5 million infected PC are still out there, but have the authors abandoned it?
InternetNews July 31, 2009	Apple Fixes iPhone SMS Vulnerability Apple pushes out an OS patch just one day after the texting vulnerability debuted at Black Hat.
PC Magazine June 18, 2009 Sascha Segan	Learning from Iran's Twitter Revolution China, Iran, and France are all teaching lessons about broadband access that we in the U.S. need to hear.
BusinessWeek July 29, 2009 Arlene Weintraub	Resveratrol: The Hard Sell on Anti-Aging Online ads for resveratrol are using fake endorsements from experts and celebrities to promote the unproven anti-aging product
InternetNews July 29, 2009	Spam Learns a New Language While spam levels are at their highest levels in years, much of it is the same - just translated for different countries.
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