Social Issues

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

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InternetNews February 1, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner	FTC: Identity Theft, Fraud on the Rise A new report by the FTC finds increases in fraud and identity theft. E-mail and the Web were fraud tools of choice on the Internet.
U.S. Banker February 2005 Michael Sisk	A Phish Story Phishing attacks (in which thieves send mass e-mails supposedly from reputable businesses) are expected to more than double in 2005, and are spreading to small banks.
InternetNews January 31, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner	Windows XP SP2 Said at Risk From Heap Overflow A report from Positive Technologies illustrates how to bypass Windows XP SP2 heap protection to create an attack vector for a buffer overflow attack.
BusinessWeek February 7, 2005 Stephen H. Wildstrom	Fighting Spyware: Microsoft To The Rescue? Independent players that have made Windows more secure could suffer
InternetNews January 28, 2005	Blaster-B Worm Author Gets 18 Months in Jail The man convicted of authoring the Blaster-B worm has been sentenced to 18 months in prison.
InternetNews January 28, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	FTC Closing CAN-SPAM Loopholes Spam-fighting feds figure out the fine points of anti-spam law.
InternetNews January 27, 2005 Jim Wagner	Postini: Spam Building Muscle Trends in e-mail security threats in 2004 point to more difficulties in 2005.
InternetNews January 26, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner	Worm Adds Insult to Injury Internet users infected with a virus may not feel particularly brilliant, but a new worm reported by PandaLabs will actually tell them they're not. Cisum.A sends an MP3 that tells infected users they're idiots.
InternetNews January 26, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner	Bugzilla Site Vandalized Bug reporting system allows malicious users to change the status of all open bugs. The apparent root cause of how the attacker was able to vandalize the system was not immediately known.
InternetNews January 26, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Microsoft Extends Anti-Piracy Program Redmond also will close the door to Windows Downloads for users of bogus software. Under the expanded program, users will have to show they have legitimate Windows licenses before receiving non-critical updates.
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