Social Issues

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

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InternetNews April 30, 2004 Roy Mark	Lawmakers Vow Tough Spyware Laws Commerce chairman says consumers are 'outraged' and promises legislative action by end of year.
InternetNews April 29, 2004 Roy Mark	Feds Can Spammers Under New Act Federal authorities use Can Spam to raid prolific Michigan spam operation, which specialized in spoofing to hawk bogus diet patches.
InternetNews April 28, 2004 Ryan Naraine	Blaster Redux? SSL Worm Threat Rising Security experts have spotted the first signs of a Blaster-like worm circulating underground, prompting fears that major Internet disruptions could be less than a week away.
InternetNews April 23, 2004 Ryan Naraine	'Osama Captured' e-Mail is Malicious Trojan The 'Osama Bin Laden Captured' e-mail hammering your in-box today will attempt to download a Trojan if the embedded URL is clicked.
InternetNews April 23, 2004 Roy Mark	DOJ Strikes at Global Online Piracy Coordinated international raids seek to dismantle syndicates distributing pirated material.
InternetNews April 22, 2004 Sean Michael Kerner	Who's Taking the Bait: 'Phishing' Skyrockets Online security groups say the scamming technique used for identity theft is proliferating as fast as viruses, with attacks up over a thousand percent since September.
InternetNews April 22, 2004 Roy Mark	New Fight to Protect Exploited Children Online Backed with a new $1 million contribution, law enforcement agencies to receive technology training from Microsoft and friends to trace Internet child pornographers.
InternetNews April 21, 2004 Ryan Naraine	Cisco Rolls Major Patches to TCP Flaw Switches, routers, intrusion detection systems and VoIP phones are on the list needing patches to TCP flaw.
InternetNews April 20, 2004 Michael Singer	Flaw Puts TCP Data Transfer At Risk Officials say systems that rely on persistent TCP connections, such as routers supporting BGP, could be affected.
Fast Company April 2004 Ryan Underwood	Worker, Hack Thyself Social engineers hack the one part of IT that can't be patched: humans. The best line of defense? Learn how to do it yourself.
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