Social Issues

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

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InternetNews July 18, 2006 Ed Sutherland	AOL to Offer Total Care PC Protection It's official. AOL has entered the realm of home PC security with a beta trial of Total Care.
InternetNews July 18, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner	Google Hacking Malicious Code Security researcher H.D. Moore has released a new malware search engine and its underlying code to help searchers find malware code that Google has indexed.
PC Magazine July 12, 2006 Robert Lemos	Gangland Web Attacks How not to get whacked by the botnet mafia.
InternetNews July 12, 2006 Roy Mark	High Prison Time For Shadowcrew Culprit Chad Hatten gets more than seven years in prison for ID theft.
InternetNews July 12, 2006 Andy Patrizio	New Virus Pretends to be WGA A virus posing as Microsoft's controversial anti-piracy software is spreading via AOL's popular Instant Messenger network, but it appears to be more of a jab at Microsoft than a real threat.
InternetNews July 11, 2006 Nicholas Carlson	Beware, MySpace Video Enthusiasts Adware company Zango does not tolerate partners who post content on MySpace or other social-networking sites.
InternetNews July 11, 2006 Andy Patrizio	Vishing Joins Phishing as Security Threat With users getting smart to phishing tricks, thieves find new ways to steal from you.
BusinessWeek July 17, 2006 Ben Elgin	The Plot To Hijack Your Computer Direct Revenue's swift rise illustrates the intertwining of spyware and mainstream online marketing.
BusinessWeek July 17, 2006 Brian Grow	You Can't Keep A Bad Scheme Down The spyware scourge is only getting worse.
BusinessWeek July 17, 2006 Ben Elgin	A Software Hall of Mirrors Dubious practices inflate the number of customers that spyware companies are generating for advertisers.
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