Social Issues

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

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Wall Street & Technology January 24, 2006 Greg MacSweeney	Raising the Security Bar An interview with Richard Rzasa, CIO at TD Waterhouse on how executives in the financial services industry must either tighten their own security and work to increase online security or risk having consumers move away from Internet banking and self-service.
InternetNews January 27, 2006 Susan Kuchinskas	Storm Warning for Google, Search? Google could be headed for a court confrontation with the U.S. attorney general -- and for the mother of all privacy storms.
InternetNews January 27, 2006 Ed Sutherland	Sprint Sues to Stop Online Phone Data Sprint Nextel is asking a Florida court to stop a firm from selling subscriber phone records.
InternetNews January 27, 2006 Roy Mark	Feds Charge 10 More in Warez Wars Federal authorities continued their national crackdown on warez dealers this week, charging 10 more individuals with violating the No Electronic Theft Act.
InternetNews January 26, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner	Blackworm May Have Already Hit The true number of infected PCs is currently unknown.
InternetNews January 26, 2006 Brian Livingston	More Ways to Protect Your E-Mail Spammers are cranking up their output every day. But anti-spammers are gaining more tools to defeat them.
InternetNews January 25, 2006 Susan Kuchinskas	Ganging Up on Badware Harvard and Oxford team with Google, Lenovo and Sun for an online neighborhood watch. It will write standards and testing procedures to define what badware is, a topic of much contention with online advertisers.
InternetNews January 24, 2006 Ed Sutherland	'Botmaster' Pleads Guilty to Zombie Profits A 20-year-old Los Angeles man faces up to 25 years in prison after pleading guilty Monday to federal charges he profited from an army of 400,000 zombie computers.
InternetNews January 24, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner	IBM: Users Are The Weak Link in Security IBM is warning in a new report that, though widespread virus outbreaks are on the decline, on the whole online attacks are expected to rise in 2006. The culprit? Highly targeted attacks that rely on naive users to help perpetrate cybercrimes.
InternetNews January 23, 2006	IronPort's Web Reputation Security Can a 'credit check' for your e-mail eliminate phishing and virus threats?
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