Social Issues

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

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InternetNews July 8, 2005 David Needle	CERT Warns on Latest Trojan Horse Attacks Targeted e-mail viruses may be behind some recent Internet outages. The trojan horse viruses can evade anti-virus software and appear to be from a trusted source.
InternetNews July 8, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Is Google Shutting Out The Blind? The search leader is not currently user-friendly for the blind. MSN and Yahoo have better solutions, though if a user is both blind and deaf, it poses a problem.
InternetNews July 8, 2005 Jim Wagner	No Jail Time For Sasser, Netsky Author The German teen behind the two e-mail worms gets probation.
InternetNews July 8, 2005 Tim Gray	IM Threats Skyrocket Threats targeting instant messaging and P2P networks exploded last month, as reports jumped nearly 400 percent.
InternetNews July 8, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	EPIC Fighting Online Phone Record Sales The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) is taking issue with the sale of detailed phone call records and P.O. box records via online private investigators, and is urging the FTC to investigate.
InternetNews July 5, 2005 Jim Wagner	China Joins Spam Fight China is throwing its weight behind an international anti-spam coalition of government agencies and private sector organizations to combat unwanted e-mail messages.
OCC Bulletin July 1, 2005	Threats from Fraudulent Bank Web Sites Risk Mitigation and Response Guidance for Web Site Spoofing Incidents
Wired July 2005 Neal Pollack	Spock the Sith Slayer Fan fiction, where people create their own stories based on characters from movies and TV, has exploded online. The Internet, with its easily accessible archive of media, provides people with almost infinite universes to draw upon.
BusinessWeek July 11, 2005 Berner & Carter	Swiping Back At Credit-Card Fraud Bogus transactions are falling overall, but e-tailers are still feeling the pain. E-tail credit-card fraud is triple the rate of the brick-and-mortar world.
InternetNews June 30, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner	US-CERT: Veritas Vulnerability Exploited The federal agency warns that Vertias Backup Exec is being actively exploited a week after a security hole in the software was disclosed.
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