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The principles and standards that guide our behavior toward other people.
Ethics are rooted in history, culture, and religion. |
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| Actions in ethical dilemmas determined by: |
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Your basic ethical structure
The circumstances of the situation |
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| Your basic ethical structure determines what you consider to be: |
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Minor ethical violations
Serious ethical violations
Very serious ethical violations |
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| Circumstances of the Situation |
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1. Consequences of the action or inaction.
2. Society's opinion of the action or inaction.
3. Likelihood of effect of action or inaction.
4. Time to consequences of action or inaction.
5. Relatedness of people who will be affected by action or inaction.
6. Reach of result of action or inaction. |
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| Intangible creative work that is embodied in physical form. |
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| Legal protection afforded by an expression of an idea. |
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| May use copyrighted material in certain situations (e.g. the creation of new work or, within certain limits, for teaching purposes). |
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| The unauthorized use, duplication, distribution, or sale of copyrighted software. |
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| The right to be left alone when you want tobe, to have control over your own personal possessions, and not to be observed without your consent. |
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Psychological: To have a sense of control.
Legal: To be able to protect yourself. |
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| Key Logger (Key Trapper) Software |
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| A program that, when installed on a computer, records every keystroke and mouse click. |
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| Capture screen from video card. |
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| Hardware device that captures keystrokes moving between keyboard and motherboard. |
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| Event Data Recorders (EDR) |
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| Located in the airbag control module and collects data from your car as you are driving. |
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| An E-Mail is stored on many computers... |
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| The forging of someone's identity for the purposes of fraud. |
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| Likelihood of Identity Theft by Age Group |
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19 and under: 2%
20-29: 16%
30-39: 21%
40-49: 23%
50-59: 20%
60-69: 8%
70 and over: 9% |
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| Phishing (carding, brand spoofing) |
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A technique to gain personal information for the purpose of identity theft.
NEVER
- Reply without question to an e-mail asking for personal information.
- Click directly on a Web site provided in such an e-mail. |
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Rerouting your request for a legitimate Web site.
- Sending it to a slightly different Web address.
- Or by redirecting you after you are already on the legitimate site.
Pharming is accomplished by gaining access to the giant databases that Internet providers use to route Web traffic.
It often works because it's hard to spot the tiny differene in the Web site address. |
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Companies need information about their employees to run their business effectively.
As of March 2005m 60% of employers monitored employee e-mails.
70% of Web traffic occurs during work hours.
78% of employers reported abuse.
60% of employees admitted abuse. |
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Misuse of company resources
Visiting inappropriate sites.
Gaming, chatting, stock trading, social networking, etc. |
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Hire the best people possible.
Ensure appropriate behavior on the job.
Avoid litigation for employee misconduct. |
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| Consumers want businesses to: |
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Know who they are, but not to know too much.
Provide what they want, but not gather information on them.
Let them know about products, but not pester them with advertising. |
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A small file that contains information about you and your Web activities, which a Web site places on your computer.
Handle cookies by using:
- Web browser cookie management option.
- Buy a program that manages cookies. |
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Unsolicited e-mail from businesses advertising goods and services.
Gets past spam filters by:
- Inserting extra characters
- Inserting HTML tags that do nothing.
- Replying usually increases, rather than decreases, amount of spam. |
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| Software to generate ads that installs itself when you download another program. |
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| Spyware (sneakware, stealthware) |
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| Software that comes hidden in downloaded software and helps itself to your computer resources. |
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Software you don't want inside software you do want.
Some ways to detect Trojan Horse software:
- AdAware
- The Cleaner
- Spyware Doctor
- www.spychecker.com |
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| One line of information for every visitor to a Web site. |
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| Records information about you during a Web surfing session such as what Web sites you visited, how long you were there, what ads you looked at, and what you bought. |
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| Anonymous Web Browsing (AWB) |
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| Hides your identity from the Web sites you visit. |
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| Privacy and Government Agencies |
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About 2,000 government agencies have databases with information on people.
Government agencies need information to operate effectively.
Whenever you are in contact with government agency, you leave behind information about yourself. |
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| Government Agencies Storing Personal Information |
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Law enforcement
- NCIC (National Crime Information Center)
- FBI
Electronic Surveillance
- Carnivore or DCS-1000
- Magic Lantern (software key logger)
- NSA (National Security Agency)
- Echelon collects electronic information by satellite |
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| Government Agencies Storing Personal Information |
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IRS
Census Bureau
Student loan services
FICA
Social Security Administration
Social Service Agencies
Department of Motor Vehicles |
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| Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) |
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| Protects personal health information. |
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| Financial Services Modernization Act |
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| Requires that financial institutions protect personal customer information. |
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Attacks on information and computer resources come from inside and outside the company.
Computer sabotage costs about $10 billion per year.
In general, employee misconduct is more costly than assaults from outside.
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| Knowledgeable computer users who use their knowledge to invade other people's computers. |
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| Software that is written with malicious intent to cause annoyance or damage. |
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| Type of virus that spreads itself from computer to computer usually via e-mail. |
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| Denial-of-Service (DoS) Attack |
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| Floods a Web site with so many requests for service that it slows down or crashes. |
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Hurt your hardware
Hurt any files they weren't designed to attack
Infect files on write-protected media |
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1. Anti-virus: detects and removes or quarantines computer viruses.
2. Anti-spyware and anti-adware software.
3. Spam protection Software: Identifies and marks and/or deletes Spam.
4. Anti-phising Software: Lets you know when phishing attempts are being made.
5. Firewall: Hardware and/or software that protects a computer or network from intruders.
6. Anti-rootkit Software: Stops outsiders taking control of your machine.
7. Encryption: Scrambles the contents of a file so that you can't read it without the decryption.
8. Public Key Encryption (PKE): An encryption system with two keys: a public for everyone and a private one for the recipient.
9. Biometrics: The use of physiological characterstics for identification purposes. |
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