Social Issues

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

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T.H.E. Journal August 2004 Ribble & Bailey	Monitoring Technology Misuse & Abuse Over the last two years, it has become evident that a behavior pattern of misuse and abuse with respect to technology is beginning to emerge in our society. Here is a five-step plan for creating a digital citizenship program in your school.
T.H.E. Journal August 2004 Kelly Martin	Unmasking Spyware Today's Internet threats often arrive so quietly that they're undetectable, allowing he malicious code more time to identify and extract additional sensitive information, including passwords, decryption keys and keystrokes.
T.H.E. Journal August 2004 Geoffry Fletcher	Securing High-Tech Classrooms There is a variety of approaches to security in educational institutions. Americans need to vote for a president who will not only support educational communications safety, but who will appoint Sepreme Court Justices who will uphold the policy.
T.H.E. Journal August 2004	Survey: Students Continue to Access Inappropriate Content at School Arecent national survey of 200 educators provides some interesting findings regarding the amount of inappropriate content accessed by students on school computers.
InternetNews August 9, 2004 Ryan Naraine	Critical Bug Found in AOL's AIM A specially crafted AIM away message could put users at risk of PC takeover.
InternetNews August 6, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	Bob Parsons, Founder and CEO, Go Daddy Go Daddy boss analyzes the future of DNS and ICANN and manages to throw in a proposal to end spam.
InternetNews August 6, 2004 Roy Mark	Trojan Horse Charges PDAs First known backdoor attack on handhelds probably written by Russian virus coder.
Bank Systems & Technology August 5, 2004 Thomas Claburn	MasterCard Goes Fishing For Phishers MasterCard will use NameProtect's technology to detect online scams as they unfold and, in conjunction with law-enforcement organizations, shut them down.
Bank Systems & Technology August 4, 2004 Antone Gonsalves	Corporate Losses from Internet-Based Attacks Average $2 Million Companies that suffer business disruptions from Internet-based attacks are losing an average of $2 million in revenue.
Reason September 2004 Marc C. Johnson	Chatroom Revolutionaries Iran's dissidents and exiles discover the Web and are sending encrypted and compressed documents via U.S.-based free e-mail accounts, a tactic also used by organized criminals, terrorists, spies, journalists, and even businessmen.
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