Social Issues

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

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InternetNews March 2, 2011	PDF Malware on the Rise: MessageLabs Latest report from security vendor Symantec's MessageLabs unit highlights surge in malicious software hiding in PDF attachments, while overall email threats are on the rise.
InternetNews February 25, 2011	W3C Accepts Microsoft's Do Not Track Proposal The move is one more step closer to a standard for ensuring privacy for consumers who don't want to be profiled by advertisers and others online.
Search Engine Watch February 19, 2011 Avril Korman	Spies, Lies & Cold Hard Cash: Second Life Erupts In a War Over Privacy The issue of privacy -- how it's maintained, stolen, disseminated, put up for sale, and ignored -- has caused something akin to open warfare across the Second Life grid this week, pitting content creators, consumers, and coders against one another.
Fast Company February 2011 Anya Kamenetz	The Case for Generosity Couch-surfing is only the beginning. The Internet could unlock our natural impulse to share goals - and a global economy built on the kindness of strangers.
BusinessWeek February 3, 2011 Michael Riley	Is WikiLeaks Hacking for Secrets? WikiLeaks, which says it's a passive drop box for whistle-blowers, is accused of searching hard drives for classified documents. This may offer prosecutors an alternate path to get the group and its founder into a U.S. courtroom.
InternetNews February 3, 2011	Hackers Use Facebook Mania to Spread Malware Facebook is a magnet for security threats and hackers are capitalizing on users' addiction to the social networking site to do even more damage.
InternetNews February 2, 2011	Rustock, Phishing Scams Boost Spam in January A flurry of new malicious spam campaigns and the return of the Rustock botnet elevated spam activity in latter half of January.
IEEE Spectrum February 2011 David Schneider	Network Defense Gone Wrong One common distributed denial-of-service defense could in fact make a Web site more vulnerable
InternetNews January 28, 2011 David Needle	Data Privacy Survey Has Some Surprising Results A survey timed to be released on Data Privacy Day indicates that Americans are more concerned about online privacy violations than losing their jobs.
PC Magazine January 28, 2011 Dan Costa	Egypt Flips Internet Kill Switch. Will the U.S.? The U.S. must learn from Egypt's state-sponsored denial off service attack on its own citizens.
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