Social Issues

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

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InternetNews June 10, 2005 Tim Gray	Trojan Spreads in Michael Jackson Spotlight British anti-virus firm Sophos says hackers are slamming computers around the world with a Trojan virus by sending e-mails claiming Michael Jackson has tried to kill himself.
InternetNews June 10, 2005 Tim Gray	Hackers Monkey With Korean Mozilla Site The Korean language Mozilla Web site was hacked and defaced this week, prompting calls from some corners of the open source community to gain control of the independent site.
InternetNews June 8, 2005 Roy Mark	Bad Actors Safe Under Spyware Legislation? Congress should do less, rather than more, when it comes to federal anti-spyware bills.
Reason June 2005 Matt Welch	Who Gets to Play Journalist? Should bloggers be able to protect their sources in front of a judge? Is federal law the appropriate remedy to journalists' being jailed for contempt?
InternetNews June 3, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner	Hackers Hit MSN Korea MSN's popular MSN Korea was knocked offline Thursday after it reportedly discovered that the site had been hacked and apparently booby-trapped in order to pilfer users' passwords.
InternetNews June 3, 2005 Tim Gray	Ever-Morphing Bagle Virus Going Strong A new variant of the Bagle downloader virus is spreading havoc again on unsuspecting users' machines, according to e-mail security firm MessageLabs.
BusinessWeek June 13, 2005 Jessi Hempel	Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh... Gadget-free summer camps are on the rise.
PC Magazine May 18, 2005 Sebastian Rupley	Infringing Copyrights at Mach 5 Copyright-infringement skirmishes have now extended beyond the Internet to Internet2, the ultra-high-speed network that universities use for developing the future of the Net.
PC Magazine May 18, 2005 Larry Seltzer	Tales of a Professional Social Engineer While we worry about Windows vulnerabilities, greater threats may be walking through the front door. The Internet has made it too easy to attack anyone, and even small banks have money in them.
CRM June 1, 2005 Marshall Lager	Fear and Loathing in the Database A company's CRM system might make it vulnerable to hackers, but with risk comes opportunity.
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