Social Issues

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

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InternetNews June 17, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner	E-commerce Rolls, So Do Threats VeriSign says e-commerce made impressive gains in the first quarter, but pharming and other threats did too.
InternetNews June 16, 2005 Jim Wagner	AOL The Most Infected? That's 'Silly' The ISP topped an infection list at 5.3 percent, but AOL officials blamed the way the rate was calculated.
The Motley Fool June 16, 2005 Tim Beyers	Hackers Aim for AIM Is instant messaging really that safe? Not so much. The startling lack of IM shielding from major vendors such as Symantec and McAfee has left many users vulnerable.
CIO June 15, 2005 Thomas Wailgum	You Can't Bank on Trust Trust is critical to generating customer loyalty in online banking. But with every phishing attack and e-mail scam, consumer confidence crumbles, bit by bit.
CIO June 15, 2005 Michael Jackman	The High Costs of Hacking One fixture of computer break-in stories is the estimated cost of these crimes. The price often runs as high as seven figures--totals hard to ken for merely pilfering the digits out of a few boxes of metal, plastic and silicon.
InternetNews June 13, 2005 Roy Mark	Fake Canadian Drug Sites Proliferating New study shows 80 percent of sites claiming to be Canadian drug stores are registered in other countries.
InternetNews June 13, 2005 Tim Gray	New Trojan Pretends to be Antivirus Software Anti-virus maker F-Secure warned mobile phone users about a slippery new trojan disguising itself as an antivirus application.
InternetNews June 13, 2005 Clint Boulton	Liberty Aims to Contain Identity Theft The Liberty Alliance Project is stepping up its assault on identity theft with the creation of a new group geared to stymie criminal activity on the Web.
PC Magazine June 1, 2005 Ryan Naraine	Yahoo! Zaps Musicmatch Jukebox Flaws Yahoo! has shipped new versions of its Musicmatch Jukebox media player to fix security holes that could put users at risk of buffer-overflow attacks.
PC Magazine June 1, 2005 Don Fluckinger	Are Your PDFs Spying on You? A new metrics-gathering system may be smart business, but it opens the door to privacy concerns for PDFs.
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