Spyware: Stealing Her Business

Ethical issues and the use of Personally Identifiable Information in computer systems, applications, and the internet.

Almost 90 percent of our society now depends on complex computer based system. With the increasingly use of computer and explosive growth of the Internet has brought many good things: electronic commerce, online banking, e-mail, video conferencing etc. The improvement of systems security to prevent criminal hacker has become an important concern to society. There are many ways to protect those information systems; it seems that the Ethical Hacking is a better way. Therefore, whether to teach or not teach the "Ethical Hacking" as a course in Tertiary education has become an interesting argument. In this article will analysis the ethical, legal, and ethical implications of this issue.

In the Article The Realness in Cyber Cheating by Monica T. Whitty it presents how cyber cheating can affect both offline relationships. Similarly to cyberbullying, the problem of cyber cheating should be addressed. Being in a relationship both partners are loyal to one another and do not do anything behind each others back. My parents are an example of a good relationship. Both my parents are loyal to one another and trust each other.

Phreaking | The act of studying, experimenting with, or exploring telephone systems, telephone company equipment, and systems connected to public telephone networks.

To understand how anti-spyware works, you'll need to understand how spyware works. Spyware is a secret program hackers will run on your computer to collect personal information without being noticed. Without an anti-spyware program, browsing the web or simply connecting a computer to the internet leaves you vulnerable for spyware to be installed onto your computer. Websites tend to collect sensitive information when you visit them, especially when conducting online transactions. Credit/debit card information, addresses, and browsing history can assist hackers with stealing your identity. Often hackers install spyware by sending these victims malware. Malware can be introduced in the form advertising and emails with links to another website.

Privacy has always been an important value to Americans. The founding fathers valued it, and placed explicit protection of certain aspects of it in the Bill of Rights. But with the invasion of the internet, keeping privacy has become difficult, if not impossible. The question is, how much right to privacy do we have on the internet? According to the Deontology view of ethics, we have some right to privacy on the internet from the government and from websites because hackers can find the collected data and steal it and your identity, the internet is an international program, and government monitoring is violation of the 4th Amendment of the Constitution.

Technology, through the times, has offered many options in protecting the society from crimes and other evil-doings. However, with industrialization, the proliferation of computers and complex political and social systems, our society needs a heightened level of security. Police and military personnel continue guarding us against criminals and terrorists. However, there is the need for individuals to consult other security services and private eyes to conduct their own investigations and protect their properties, families, and businesses. They invest in modern and efficient surveillance equipment to monitor activities within their facilities such as spy cameras to secure their families and alert them of suspicious individuals.

information.(Clarke Knake 2012, 140) What the authors in this potential vulnerability, with the Governemet using COTS technology without having a way to defend from attacks, posed a vast vulnerability to communications between the Dept. of Defense along with Military installations, and the executive branch to other agencies. (Clarke Knake 2012, 64-68) The authors give this scenario in a painfully realistic situation, where hackers essentially shutdown the governmental communications and leave the agencies that are in the federal government blind, leaving the reader to wonder, “what would the implications be of this occurring in reality and what would this do to the Government and the United States itself?” This could occur anytime, anywhere, from anywhere in the world. The authors do a very good job at presenting this scenario and how this could affect the highest as well as the lowest levels of the government.

ince the early 1900’s, technology has advanced monumentally. The world went from barely having cars to now having cars that can drive themselves all in a little over a centuries work. Our technology is so advanced that the police are using it to detect crime almost immediately. In the city of Long Beach, the police has over four hundred cameras spread throughout the city. Some have said that by having cameras all over the city is considered an invasion of privacy like Big Brother. In the book 1984, the citizens are always being watched through a telescreen. A tele screen is similar to a tv but you are always being watched by the government called Big Brother. Shutting the tele screen off is a crime. The chief said it won’t be a case of “big brother is watching,” because the camera feed will only be activated when the police have a report that a crime is in progress. Our world is slowly turning into an Orwellian society with the consent of governments.

Do you remember the days when kids could ride their bike down town without having to worry about anything but a scraped knee? Well now children can’t even go online without having the danger of rapists, murderers and all sorts of other creeps out there. But, there is a way of reducing the risk and danger that comes with internet browsing. Spyware! It lets you monitor what your children do online and the websites they visit.

Technology is growing at an exponential rate; this presents many challenges and advantages to online and campus students alike. The potential and ability to cheat is greatly increased. In the days before this "technology boom" answers were being written on hands, arms, and anything else that was capable of being marked on. Now cheating is more than easy. With mp3 players, camera phones and PDA 's cheating is literally just a click away! Team A will show how technology has increased by showing the various different ways to cheat, what students think about cheating, and what teachers are doing to prevent it.

Two of the common known attacks on computing systems are the deployment of computer viruses and malware.

Reveton is a form of ransomware that began to appear in 2012. “Ransomware is malicious software that locks you out of your computer or your data, and demands money to let you back in.” (Ducklin) Reveton, also known as citadel or Troj/Ransom, most often impersonates different law enforcement agencies declaring that a person’s computer has been used in illegal activities and in order to regain access to their computer, and avoid being criminally charged, they should pay the “fine”. They even tailor the attacks to the user’s location, as Brian Krebs puts it, “The scam pages used in the attacks mimic official notices from various national police or investigatory agencies, corresponding to the country in which the victim resides.” (Krebs) This ransomware can get onto a system, usually a single user’s PC, in a few different ways: via email, USB, P2P services/torrenting, or unsafe websites.

The recent revolutions of the world have changed how individuals live their lives. With the creation of new and advanced technology every era, individuals begin to trust new ways of communicating and storing our personal life. This has caused the Internet and cellular networks to be the newest information banks that all societies trust to keep their personal information safe. With these sources being accessed by people around the world, spy agencies are now looking at these information banks as sources to access the personal information of millions of individuals. With Internet privacy becoming increasingly questionable, the debate arises “Is it ethical for the government to access our personal viral information?” Since gaining access to

It has been proved that computers help a business ease its activities such as record keeping, monitoring employees and word processing among others. However, the use of computers in the workplace breeds concerns such as security threats and privacy issues. Computer systems are not only prone to hackers but also other security issues that may compromise the company’s activities and social integrity. The research will probe into some of the advantages and disadvantages of computer surveillance.