Social Issues

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

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InternetNews November 19, 2004 Jim Wagner	Skulls Hit Symbian Phones A relatively low-impact but threatening virus is popping up on some SymbianOS-powered phones, according to an F-Secure anti-virus report.
InternetNews November 19, 2004 Tim Gray	The Risk of at-Work Surfers Network security is a high priority for every business, yet most employees are unaware of the potential security hazards of surfing the Web during office hours, a recent survey says.
InternetNews November 19, 2004 Sean Michael Kerner	New Virus 'Sobers' up The Internet A new worm is wriggling around the Internet. This time it's the latest variant of Sober, which first appeared in October of 2003.
InternetNews November 19, 2004 Chris Nerney	A Costly Identity Crisis If it seems to you that the phishing/spam problem has gotten worse lately, it (unfortunately) isn't your imagination.
The Motley Fool November 19, 2004 Elizabeth Brokamp	Who Stole My Checking Account?! Think Internet fraud is something that only happens to other people? You might be unpleasantly surprised. I know I was. A couple of months ago, my SunTrust checking account was drained of nearly $3,000 in a matter of a few days.
InternetNews November 17, 2004 Roy Mark	Software Gives Parents Chance to Snoop The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) will release free software that allow parents a peek into their kids' computers for 'illegal files' and the programs that download them. It also filed lawsuits against movie file-swappers.
InternetNews November 16, 2004 Jim Wagner	Spam Spikes This Holiday Season Recent stats by Symantec show spam volumes leveling off, but think of it as the calm before the holiday storm.
InternetNews November 16, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	IronPort: Time To Turn Tables on Zombies ISPs use reputation filtering to stop outbound spam.
InternetNews November 15, 2004 Sean Michael Kerner	Online Shopping Season a Target For Fraud Monday may be the most popular day to shop online this holiday season but fraudsters don't care what day of the week it is.
InternetNews November 15, 2004 Jim Wagner	Yahoo for DomainKeys One of the Web's largest e-mail providers is looking to make its service safer with the adoption of DomainKeys, a cryptographic-based e-mail authentication technology.
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