Social Issues

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

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PC World November 2005 Erik Larkin	Threat Alert: Instant Messaging Attacks Worms disguised as harmless links or attachments wriggle through chat software.
PC World November 2005 Anush Yegyazarian	Security by the Numbers Cybercrime and worries about online safety continue to grow. Here's some statistics on trends, product use, and losses relating to online security issues.
PC World November 2005 Harry McCracken	Rule One: They're Our Machines The war for control of our PCs rages on. And we can't win it alone.
InternetNews October 6, 2005 Tim Gray	Sober's Rating is Raised McAfee today announced that its Anti-virus and Vulnerability Emergency Response Team raised its risk assessment to "Medium" on the recently discovered W32/Sober.r, also known as Sober.r.
InternetNews October 5, 2005 Tim Gray	IM Threats Adding Up IMlogic is warning Internet users that another worm, dubbed IM.Treba.AIM, is again exploiting instant messaging technology to infect machines running Windows.
Inc. October 2005 John Fried	Spam Glossary How to talk like a chicken-boner: a junk e-mail glossary.
InternetNews October 3, 2005 Tim Gray	Trojan Exploits Office A Trojan Horse attacking Microsoft Office has been around since April. The malicious code is disguised as a Microsoft Access file.
InternetNews October 3, 2005 Tim Gray	California Outlaws Phishing It becomes the first state to make the scam a civil violation.
InternetNews September 30, 2005 Tim Gray	Phishers Use Photos for Catch A phishing scam is hooking Yahoo users by stealing their user names and passwords when they log into what looks like an area of the Yahoo site, according to a security firm.
PC Magazine September 28, 2005 Sharon Terdeman	Spear-phishing on the Rise As if there weren't enough threats to have to watch out for, a variation on phishing that targets employees at specific organizations merits notice.
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