Social Issues

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

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InternetNews June 2, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner	Firefox Fixes By The Dozen Mozilla has updated its flagship FireFox browser to version 1.5.0.4 and, in the process, fixed no less than 12 flaws.
CRM June 1, 2006 Jessica Sebor	How Many Clicks Does a Click Fraud Make? As invalid click percentage projections oscillate, it is important for advertisers to stay focused on fraud identification and filtration.
Searcher June 2006 Piper & Ramos	A Failure to Communicate: Politics, Scams, and Information Flow During Hurricane Katrina The Katrina disaster was exacerbated by poor communications. Some help was provided by the Internet, but it was also a breeding round for Katrina-related scams.
InternetNews May 31, 2006 Andy Patrizio	Keylogger Masquerades As Microsoft Alert Would-be identity thieves have turned loose another sneaky means for stealing users' personal information. It comes in the form of a fraudulent e-mail pretending to be from Microsoft that suckers users into installing a key logger.
InternetNews May 31, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner	Windows Live OneCare Takes Retail Leap Microsoft's first retail attempt to enter the antivirus, anti-spyware marketplace, Windows Live OneCare, is now on store shelves.
InternetNews May 26, 2006	Beware of 'Badware' Academic organizations' watchlist spotlights four examples of malicious software.
InternetNews May 26, 2006 Tim Scannell	Jamie de Guerre, Director, Partner Programs, Cloudmark Spam isn't going anywhere, and Jamie de Guerre's company is tracking its trails through our inboxes.
Parameters Summer 2006 Audrey Kurth Cronin	Cyber-Mobilization: The New Levee en Masse The U.S. needs a counter-mobilization. So-called information warfare and public diplomacy do not capture the extent of this shift. Putting today's developments within their historical context, the U.S. should get beyond its cultural myopia and turn more attention to analyzing and influencing the means and ends of popular mobilization.
InternetNews May 22, 2006 Roy Mark	Thieves Bag Data on 26.5M Vets Personal data on more than 26 million veterans is at risk of identity theft after a Department of Veterans Affairs' employee's home was burglarized and the data stolen.
InternetNews May 22, 2006 Ed Sutherland	Word Attack Hails From China Security researchers warn Microsoft Word zero-day exploit is aimed at government e-mail systems.
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