Social Issues

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

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InternetNews November 14, 2005 Jim Wagner	Postini And The On-Again, Off-Again Spam List Postini briefly found itself on the Spamhaus Project's block list after a recent e-mail campaign, resurrecting the debate over DNS-based Blackhole Lists.
InternetNews November 11, 2005 Roy Mark	FBI Hunkered in The Bunker Cyber G-men are responsible for investigating cyber attacks by foreign adversaries and terrorists, and for preventing online criminals from using the Internet to steal, defraud and otherwise victimize U.S. citizens, businesses and communities.
InternetNews November 11, 2005 Roy Mark	L.A. Court Shuts Down Spyware Op The Federal Trade Commission seeks a permanent injunction and victim restitution for Los Angeles-based spyware scheme.
InternetNews November 10, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Fraud Chewing E-Commerce Profits Fraud will eat a $2.8 billion chunk out of e-commerce revenue in 2005, according to a new study.
PC Magazine November 2, 2005 Nicole Price Fasig	Blogs for a Cause International bloggers are increasingly positioning themselves as watchdogs over governments.
PC Magazine November 2, 2005 Ryan Naraine	Antivirus Vendors Targeted Scammers are registering very small variations of antivirus vendors and then making money by redirecting surfers with Google's AdSense pay-per-click program.
PC Magazine November 2, 2005 Matthew D. Sarrel	Cookies and PIE You know to be wary of cookies. Could persistent indentification elements be a bigger threat?
InternetNews November 7, 2005 Roy Mark	Feds Park Internet Car Scam A nationwide internet scam took almost 30 victims for more than $60,000.
Bank Systems & Technology November 1, 2005 Steven Marlin	Defending the New Frontier An interview with Matthew Speare, Chief Information Security Officer at M&T Bank on the greatest security threats to banks and what banks to do to fight back.
InternetNews November 4, 2005 Tim Gray	Botnet Zombie Maker Faces 50 Years Federal Authorities have arrested and charged a California man with hijacking hundreds of thousands of computers and creating a vast zombie network that launched denial of service attacks and spewed spam.
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