Social Issues

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

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Wall Street & Technology March 21, 2006 Paul Allen	Add Another Bolt to the Cyber Door Due to enhanced and evolving cyber-threats, financial institutions now must implement some form of multifactor authentication or layered security to protect sensitive customer data.
Wall Street & Technology March 20, 2006 Greg MacSweeney	The Educated Consumer To formalize any industrywide security response likely would be useless, as cyber criminals will continue to find new ways to steal financial data. For now, it seems, the banking industry's best line of defense is the education of the financial customer.
InternetNews March 20, 2006 Roy Mark	Big Ads Add to Adware, Spyware Major Internet advertisers are financing - sometimes unwittingly - the spread of potentially harmful adware and spyware, according to a new Center for Democracy and Technology finger pointing report.
InternetNews March 20, 2006 Clint Boulton	Microsoft Looks to Give Phishers The Hook Microsoft has begun waging a war overseas against perpetrators who steal money by using the Internet to trick people into giving up their personal information.
InternetNews March 17, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner	Flash Users Advised to Upgrade US-CERT has issued a Cyber Security Alert for multiple Adobe/Macromedia Flash-based products, including Flash Player version 8.0.22.0 and earlier for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Solaris.
InternetNews March 17, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner	Botnets on The Run? Security researchers have identified numerous botnets of zombies in recent days and in at least one case ended their reign of the undead.
InternetNews March 16, 2006 David Miller	International Child Pornography Ring Busted U.S. Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales announced on Wednesday that an international investigation has lead to more than two dozen arrests of people participating in an online child pornography ring.
PC Magazine March 15, 2006 Robert Lemos	The Wireless Snare Right now your laptop could be wirelessly connecting to any available network. That's unsafe.
InternetNews March 15, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner	New Trojan is Holding Data Ransom If you're the unlucky victim of the new cryzip Trojan making the rounds, it'll cost you $300 to get your data back from the Trojan's author.
InternetNews March 14, 2006 Ed Sutherland	Microsoft Plans Free Parental Monitor Microsoft announced that this summer it will release Windows Live Family Safety Settings, a free Web-based service allowing parents to keep tabs on what their children are doing online.
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