Social Issues

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

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InternetNews September 2, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Watching Katrina's Wrath and Aftermath More Hurricane Katrina-related searchable pictures are available through the user-tagged Flickr service than any of the search engines. AOL and Yahoo returned the most official videos of the tragedy.
T.H.E. Journal September 2005	Blue Security Builds `Do Not Intrude Registry Patterned after the Federal Do Not Call Registry, Blue Security has created a free Do Not Intrude Registry, which forms a community of people to fight spam by registering via the Web and downloading its "Blue Frog" to their computers.
Bank Systems & Technology August 30, 2005 Maria Bruno-Britz	Maximum Security Although all industries are susceptible to data theft, the costs in terms of reputation and dollars are particularly steep in financial services, and most banks are taking measures to reduce the risks associated with handling consumer data.
CFO September 1, 2005 Esther Shein	Who's Minding the Shop? Keeping an eye on Web-surfing employees. Here are tips on what an Internet usage policy should include.
PC Magazine August 31, 2005 John C. Dvorak	Knowing Too Much Information about your IP address and Internet use can be collected easily these days. The possibility that this mode of information collection will expand beyond the Internet is more likely sooner than later.
InternetNews August 31, 2005 Tim Gray	Mytob Variant Still Trolling The Web The hackers who unleashed Mytob and Zotob may be behind bars, but variants of their work continue to appear.
InternetNews August 30, 2005 Tim Gray	Zotob Writer Had Busy Summer One of the programmers arrested last week in connection with the Zotob worm outbreak may have authored at least 20 other worms, according to SophosLabs.
InternetNews August 26, 2005 Tim Gray	Authorities Nab Zotob Writers Joint cooperation nails virus writers overseas.
InternetNews August 26, 2005 Roy Mark	Feds Bust Spam Porn Operation A Phoenix federal grand injury has indicted three individuals for multiple violations of the CAN SPAM Act including sending unsolicited obscene materials, money laundering and criminal conspiracy.
InternetNews August 26, 2005 David Needle	Hunting Down Spyware Tenebril says its SpyCatcher Enterprise blocks more spyware than competing products. Enterprises now spend over $130,000 per month in IT time fighting spyware-related issues.
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