The Ethics Of The Trojan Virus

In the CVS case, one of the ethical dilemmas that stood out to me the most and was the most challenging to my values and the company’s values was the HIPAA privacy case of 2009. At that time, CVS was not adhering to and thus violating the HIPAA Privacy Rule, therefore breaking the law. As a company in the health industry, CVS is required to properly safeguard the information of their patients, but CVS failed to do so. Employees at CVS would simply through away old prescription notes and bottle labels that had sensitive patient information on them, therefore they did no dispose of patient information correctly by destroying it. After the company was investigated by the OCR and the FTC, the root of this problem was discovered. Employees lacked the proper training in disposing patient information and were not punished when information was disposed of wrongly. CVS was not following three of their five values in this situation; integrity, caring, and accountability. Customers were told and trusted that their privacy was of top priority and therefore they assumed their information was being handled properly, but this was a lie and therefore tarnished CVS’ integrity. Lying is against one of my values, but society also sees it as extremely wrong so this case especially caught my eye. The fact that patient information was not disposed of properly also put the patients at risk of the public having access to sensitive health conditions. This could potentially harm the patient in many

As the world becomes ever more involved within the digital realm, it is important to asses acts that may be morally questionable. Such acts like that of a hacker, Hack, and her unauthorized intrusion into a hospital database done purely for personal pleasure. It is my goal to prove that doing so is morally wrong. The proponent of this act, Mickey Soft, lists it as morally permissible for the following reasons:

Trojan’s are one threat it is a type of malware designed to provide unauthorized, remote access to a user’s computer. Trojan horses do not have the ability to replicate themselves like viruses; however, they can lead to viruses being installed on a machine since they allow the computer to be controlled by the Trojan creator.

Cybersecurity has always been a big issue because everyone can imagine putting up the most advanced security into place and call it good. However, these measures aren’t always the most convenient and/or they infringe on the privacy boundary. The blame has been put on everyone and fingers were pointed to everyone as well when data was compromised. Laws proposed are usually always under fire because of privacy infringement. Businesses are being hacked and it falls onto the consumers to watch for “suspicious charges” on their account. The population posts information on social media without thinking about the bigger picture.

In this paper we are going to examine why personal morality is an oxymoron and how a moral system is analogous to a game. Then we are going to analyze how the ethical issue of software piracy is seen from the notion of common moral system according to Gert.

In a world where technology is increasingly becoming the way of life, it was only a matter of time before crime was no longer just in the streets but happening online as well. Criminals now get a new approach to carry out their crimes with the use of computers. Since technology is more like a murder mystery than catching the bad guy in the act, a new discipline of forensics needed to be put into place. This is known as computer forensics. Forensic science is any science used for the purpose of law. In the case of computer forensics it is “the discipline that combines elements of law and computer science to collect and analyze data from computer systems, networks, wireless communications, and storage devices in a way that is admissible as evidence in a court of law” (U.S. Cert, 2008). Meaning if you do something illegal on the Internet it can be found.

Computer viruses are minute program which is “embedded inside an application or within a data file which can copy itself into another program“(Adams et al, 2008 ) for the sole determination of meddling with normal computer operations. The consequences may range from corruption and deletion of data; propagation of virus on to network and deployment through attachments through emails in order to further creating havoc to all associated computing devices.

Nearly 83% of all americans in the united states own a computer with a broadband connection to the internet and 83% of them are at risk of a cyber attack. Most computers have antivirus software installed to prevent unwanted

By the year of 2016, investments in online security are expected to reach $86bn (Contu et al, 2012). Although this might seem a large sum of money, it is considered necessary since there is an increase in online risks from all over the world. Professional hackers develop malware on a global scale and on a 24/7 basis. Hackers have five objectives when spreading malware over the Internet: to infect/distribute, to steal, to persist, to control and for intelligence (Morris, 2010).

Just like a biological virus, a computer virus is able to infect and ruin lives. This malicious software constitutes more than just simple viruses but also includes other types of software including worms, Trojan horses, and ransomware. Malware has been around since the late 1980’s. Originally, people became hackers to gain notoriety online, but today, it has become more of a business. Cyber attacks originate from all around the world, and it is not just individual people that benefit from it. In two decades, numerous cyber crime syndicates have been created, and states all over the world sponsor hacker groups. Over the past twenty-five years, malware has become less about checking the integrity of computer security and gaining notoriety in the underground cyber society, and it has become more of a chaos creating, money making business that many people and institutions take part in.

Kaspersky has been reported to be one of the best antivirus software installed on Windows 8.1. A test conducted by AV-Test, one of top antivirus testing house, reveals that Microsoft’s built-in antivirus software is on the latter as compared to Kaspersky. (“Kaspersky top list of best Windows 8.1 antivirus software”, n.d) However, Ethisphere, a company which claims to be specialised in the process of evaluating a company’s ethics, does not reflect Kaspersky as one of the most ethical company. (“Most Ethical Companies”, n.d) Yet, at the same time, Kaspersky is able to offer a wide range of security software for the consumers without losing its edge from the other companies such as Microsoft, AVAST, Avira, AVG as well as McAfee. (Products & Services, n.d)

Network viruses are another favorite method of cyber criminals. As we all know, viruses can bring a network to

There are special viruses that creates different types of malicious problems on a network or computer, for instance it will create or open programs to perform tasks. Viruses is also used for denial of service attacks, password cracking and many more. This can be fought against by having a reliable protection service; it is safer if this is taken from the provider itself.

Cybercrime has become a fast growing concern for the 21st century as businesses, institutions and individuals grow into an interconnected web of computer networks. Online business transactions, along with the sharing of personal information, are vulnerable to a host of disasters that can reap economic and social havoc. Some sources say that today, cybercrime costs more than $1.0 trillion to society--Global Industry Analysts, Inc. forecasted the world cyber security market to reach $80 billion by 2017 (Gale, 2011).

Many types of computer virus has been spreading in computers since 1960. The first a computer virus discovered in 1970 and called The Creeper virus on Arpanet browser (anon, 2013)