Social Issues

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

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BusinessWeek April 10, 2006 Brian Grow	This Worm Is Nasty, Brutish, And Sneaky Hackers have raised the stakes with a new bug almost immune to detection.
IEEE Spectrum April 2006 Paul McFedries	Gone Phishin' Microsoft is right to include antiphishing technology in Internet Explorer 7, because clearly we need all the help we can get.
IEEE Spectrum April 2006 Prachi Patel-Predd	Cybercrime At A Glance But just how much damage can cybercrime cause? About $67 billion to U.S. companies last year, according to an estimate based on the Federal Bureau of Investigation's 2005 Computer Crime Survey. Here's more statistics.
InternetNews March 31, 2006 Ed Sutherland	DoJ Expands Subpoenas to ISPs and Tech Companies As many as 34 Internet Service Providers and technology companies have been subpoenaed by the U.S. Justice Department in its continuing attempt to gather data to support a federal Internet child protection law
InternetNews March 24, 2006 Roy Mark	FTC Slaps Spammer With Record Fine The Federal Trade Commission Thursday hit Internet marketer Jumpstart Technologies with a $900,000 civil fine for violating the CAN-SPAM Act, the largest penalty to date for a violation of the two-year-old law.
InternetNews March 24, 2006 Ed Sutherland	Latest IE Exploit Creates Security Scramble Attackers and security experts are in a race against time, as new, more dangerous, Internet Explorer exploits are made public. The latest, found by researchers this morning, reportedly overcomes a fix released yesterday by Microsoft.
InternetNews March 23, 2006 Roy Mark	Nigerian E-mail Scam Artists Indicted Dutch authorities are holding the three men pending extradition to the United States for a spam-delivered advance fee scheme that promised large returns for fronting legal costs of a charitable effort.
InternetNews March 23, 2006 Clint Boulton	Sun's Grid DDOS-Attacked Sun's public grid launch was hampered by denial-of-service attacks on the company's grid pilot.
InternetNews March 23, 2006 David Needle	Warning on Malicious Bot Hitting Banks A security firm claims 'Metafisher' has spread to a million computers (and growing) through a Windows security hole. It is considered the most sophisticated bot focused on financial fraud.
InternetNews March 21, 2006 David Miller	Can IE Bug Do More Than Crash Browsers? A newly discovered flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser can cause the browser to crash and may expose PCs to another round of nasty Internet hack attacks.
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