Social Issues

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

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Search Engine Watch June 26, 2010 Johnny Widerlund	9 Ways to Control Your Privacy on Social Media Sites A look at the top ways online security experts say you can restore or maintain your privacy on social networking sites.
PC Magazine June 25, 2010 Chloe Albanesius	Senate 'Internet Kill Switch' Bill Moves Forward A Senate committee on Thursday approved a cyber-security bill that has prompted concern.
InternetNews June 23, 2010	.Org the First TLD Added to the DNSSEC The first major top-level domain to be secured with DNSSEC is the .Org domain, but the process of securing all domains isn't done yet.
InternetNews June 22, 2010	Botnet Still King of Malware Underworld Latest report from Gartner finds that while more sophisticated malware and phishing scams will proliferate, botnets will still be the top challenge for security experts for the foreseeable future.
InternetNews June 22, 2010	ICANN Pushes DNSSEC as Internet Threats Mount Officials at ICANN, along with researchers like Dan Kaminsky, step up the call to action for stakeholders and network admins to back DNSSEC.
InternetNews June 21, 2010	Internet Security Tops ICANN's Agenda CEO Rob Beckstrom said ICANN must be "an active catalyst" in securing the Internet.
Search Engine Watch June 21, 2010 Kaila Strong	Facebook Privacy: What You Need to Know Steps Facebook users and publishers can take to avoid letting private information get into the wrong hands.
Search Engine Watch June 19, 2010 Johnny Widerlund	Social Media: The Privacy and Security Repercussions How risky is our online behavior? A closer look at social media's privacy and security vulnerabilities.
InternetNews June 18, 2010	DNSSEC Milestone Good News for Internet Security The implementation of DNSSEC security is particularly important in light of the Kaminsky DNS vulnerability disclosed back in 2008.
InternetNews June 18, 2010	Microsoft Suing Hotmail Spammers Software giant goes to court to take down the orchestrators of what it describes as the "largest ever" spam attacks on its Windows Live Hotmail service.
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