Social Issues

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

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Bank Systems & Technology March 7, 2005 George Hulme	May I See Some ID, Please? Identity theft continues to be consumers' top complaint, and ID theft-related complaints are on the rise. Bank-related identity theft comprised 18 percent of all ID theft complaints.
InternetNews March 8, 2005 Tim Gray	Tally's In: More Voters Log On Stats prove out what many Netizens already know: More voters are getting their news online.
InternetNews March 8, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Managing The Parallel 'You-niverse' The data stored by the companies we do business with creates a digital counterpart that wields powerful influence over our lives.
InternetNews March 7, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner	DNS-Based Phishing Attacks on The Rise Phishers are using a pair of DNS exploits to help give them the illusion of credible domains.
PC Magazine March 2, 2005 John C. Dvorak	The Clogging Factor Every aspect of personal computing is threatened by clogging and users contribute to the problem with bad habits that all too often prove irresistible.
PC Magazine March 2, 2005 Cade Metz	The Spam Stoppers If you don't have a spam filter or you're having trouble running the one you do have, you might consider outsourcing the task.
PC Magazine March 2, 2005 Larry Seltzer	Who's Winning the Spam War? AOL says its users are getting less spam. Can this be true? Is this because of its technology, or the effective legal action it takes against spammers?
InternetNews March 4, 2005 Tim Gray	Spamhaus Lauds Spam Fighters Global Crossing receives kudos from the non-profit for removing those from its network who circulate malicious traffic.
The Motley Fool March 4, 2005 Rich Smith	Internet Wars Hackers declare war on Nigeria. But the more we as individuals indulge our collective id in participating in such attacks, the more likely the Internet will become a technological free-fire zone.
BusinessWeek March 14, 2005 Stephen H. Wildstrom	New Weapons To Stop Identity Thieves That may explain why phishing incidents continue to proliferate despite the concerted efforts of software publishers to make it harder. And it is why the time has come to attack the problem at its root: the inadequacy of passwords.
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