Social Issues

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

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InternetNews February 3, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	Key Online Music Piracy Ruling Reviewed The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals mulls the Recording Industry of America's lawsuits against file-swappers.
InternetNews February 2, 2004 Ryan Naraine	Microsoft Goes Off-Cycle for 'Critical' IE Patch The world's most popular browser gets an urgent update to plug several known security holes.
InternetNews February 2, 2004 Jim Wagner	SCO Shifts, Microsoft Braces for Next MyDoom Microsoft warns its users on how to remove MyDoom.B from computers as the first DDoS attacks begin.
Information Today February 2004 Dick Kaser	'Can Spam' Law Needs to Be Enforced It looks like it will take some muscle to back up the letter of this new law. What we need next is a major suit against one of these nefarious outfits to drive the point home that spam is now illegal.
PC Magazine February 17, 2004 Leon Erlanger	Should You Trust TrustE? Does a privacy seal on a web site mean you don't have to read the privacy statement? Hardly.
PC Magazine February 17, 2004 Leon Erlanger	The Lookout: Get Patched Security experts have found a new way to exploit a known buffer overrun flaw in Windows Workstation Service.
PC Magazine February 17, 2004	Spam Blockers We review 11 antispam utilities in this roundup. Eight of them rely heavily on complex techniques to separate spam from legitimate mail. Spam looks very different than everyday correspondence, and such tools seek to exploit those differences. The three other tools use whitelist schemes.
CIO February 1, 2004 Scott Berinato	Courts Make Users Liable for Security Glitches Because of changes in the insurance business and some recent court decisions, it looks like this is going to be the year to watch for computer security lawsuits.
CFO January 30, 2004 Esther Shein	Spy vs. Spy Companies are spending billions on network security, but staying ahead of hackers may be a pipe dream.
InternetNews January 30, 2004 Roy Mark	FTC Launches International Anti-Spam Campaign New effort focuses on convincing business and organizations worldwide to close open proxies and relays.
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