Social Issues

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

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PC Magazine October 8, 2009 Dan Costa	FTC Guns for Blogger Shills -- and Misses Blogger payola is risible, but the new FTC guidelines are misguided, unenforceable, and utterly useless.
InternetNews October 5, 2009	RSA Claims New Trojan Plants False Bots Users of online banking may be at greater risk than they know if the URLZone Trojan attacks reach the U.S.
InternetNews October 1, 2009	Internet Never More Dangerous: Study Report finds a 585 percent spike in fake anti-malware and security software programs in the first half of 2009.
InternetNews October 1, 2009	Facebook Hit With New Spyware Scam Hackers bypassed the social networking site's captchas to create new accounts at will.
Searcher October 2009 Barbara Quint	Searcher's Voice - The Course of Inquiry That expectation itself, that smug certainty that certainty awaits your inquiry, that search results will appear no matter what the question, and that -- no matter what the question -- the answers will be there -- that's what's different from the past.
InternetNews September 29, 2009	World of Warcraft Hit by New Phishing Scam Hackers target world's most popular multiplayer online role-playing game with promise of a new mount.
InternetNews September 28, 2009	UNC Breach Exposes Social Security Numbers University officials are notifying more than 163,000 women that their personal data may have been compromised by hackers more than two years ago.
InternetNews September 28, 2009	Reddit Snuffs Out XSS Worm Social news service Reddit is in the process of recovering from a worm that pummeled the site with malicious comments.
InternetNews September 25, 2009	Twitter URLs Again Under Siege by Hackers Hackers are taking advantage of the popular microblogging site's limitations to spread malware.
Popular Mechanics October 2009 Harry Sawyers	GE Dredges Hudson River PCBs, Ships Them to Texas How the Hudson River is cleaned.
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