Ethics and It Raw Ppt

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Ethics is a branch of philosophy that deals with what is considered to be right and

wrong.

The diversity of IT applications and the increased use of the technology have created

many ethical issues.

There are major difference even with companies and individuals with respect to

what is right and wrong.

So also with different countries what is unethical in one culture may be perfectly

acceptable to others.


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ETHICAL ISSUES

1. PRIVACY

2. ACCURACY3. PROPERTY

4. ACCESSIBILITY

FOUR STATES OF PRIVACY ARE:

1. SOLITUDE

2. INTIMACY3. ANONYMITY

4. RESERVE


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SECURITY THREATS:

1. ACCIDENTAL

2. INTENTIONAL

SPECIFIC THREATS:

1. LOSS, THEFT OR CORRUPTION OF DATA

2. INAPPROPRIATE USE OF DATA

3. THEFT OF MAINFRAME COMPUTER CRIME

4. THEFT OF EQUIPMENT AND/OR PROGRAMS5. ERRORS IN HANDLING, ENTERING, PROCESSING, TRANSFERRING OR PROGRAMMING OF DA

6. EQUIPMENT MALFUNCTIONS

7. ACCIDENTAL OR MALICIOUS DAMAGE TO COMPUTER RESOURCES

8. DESTRUCTION FROM VIRUSES AND SIMILAR ATTACKS


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Attacks On Computer Systems


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when some

one rightprog.

Virus

attacks

Transmission

occurs

Undetected

virus

It does it

work

how it spreads????

Computer viruses


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Software Packages


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Information rights and obligations-spell out corporate privacy anddue process policies.

roperty rights and obligation-clarify ho corporation ill treatproperty rights of soft are o ners.

Accountability and control-clarify ho is responsible andaccountable for information.

Main moral dimensions of an information

society


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Ethical analysis as a five-step methodology for

analysing a situation

The method involves:

Identifying the facts

Identifying the values

Identifying the stakeholders

Identifying the options

Consequences of actions

Internet crime and compter abuse:Computer abuse :

It is the commission of act involving a compute that may not be illegal

but are considered unethical.


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Santo polanco, an 18 year old student at the new York instituteof technology and another person(26 year) Eric- Bilej by were

charged in a New York court for allegedly raising at least$16,000 through fraudulent sales at many leading websites

offering computers for auction that was never delivered aftertaking money.

Timothy Lloyed, an ex-computer administrator at omegaengineering at new jersey was charged with planting a

logicbomb that deleted all software programs (30th july 1996).Company suffered $10 million in damages. He also stole about

$ 50,000 of computer equipment .

Hackers are on the rise, posing new threats to

organisations linked to the internet:


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Computer Crime Prevention

Hire Carefully :- The most logical way to prevent them is by

hiring trust worthy people. However would me criminals

cannot be spotted easily at the time of hiring.

Beware ofMalcontents :- Crime experts put at the top oftheir lists is the disgruntled employee. They may steal disks

containing the companys most financial records by using his

after-hours access to a computer installation and locating the

same.

Separate Employee Function :- Crimes are difficult to

commit when some of the people are made to work together.


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The other preventions are:

Restrict system use.

Protect resources with passwords or other authorizations checks.

Conduct frequent audits.

Encrypt data and programmes.


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Computer vision syndrome (CVS) :This eyestraincondition is related to computer display screen usewith symptoms including headaches, blessed vision &

dry, irritated eyes.

Technostress : The incidence of this is growingrapidly. It is the stress induced by computer use,

with symptoms including aggravation, hostility towardhumans, impatience & exervation.

Role of radiation from computer display screens hasnot been proved in occupational disease. Video DisplayTerminals(VDTs) emit nonionising electric & magnetic

fields at low frequencies, rays of which enter thebody & have unknown effects on enzymes,molecules.


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How to tackle it????

JONATHAN FERNANDES

TYBMS ROLL NO: 308


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The main reason for spying is that the users are not trained

properly in security.

Only the system admin or IT manager is aware of security.

Corporates are regularly penetrated by script kiddies andeven by hackerssometimes from the organized crime circle.

Eg.) In 1999, Net Bus was used to discredita law student studying at the LundUniversity in Sweden. Child pornography wasuploaded onto his computer from anunidentified location. He was later acquitted ofcharges in 2004 when it was discoveredthat Net Bus had been used to control hiscomputer.

The information taken can the be sold for money.

There are various means of compromising thesecurity either by technology or Social Engineering.


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If a mail is received with an attachment thefollowing procedure must be carried out. Download it on the computer(dont open)

Right click on it .see properties

If the file is marked as an application it can be(a Trojan, virus, or worm)

Dont open it.delete the file immediatelySuch mails can be in the foll. Formats such as

(.src, .exe, .pif, .sys or even document.doc.exe)


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Spoofing/Phishing is fakingan E-mail address or webpage to trick users into

passing critical informationlike password or credit cardnumber.


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An ethical hacker is a computer andnetwork expert who attacks asecurity system on behalf of itsowners, seeking vulnerabilities that amalicious hacker could exploit.

Ethical hackers use the samemethods as their less principled

counterparts, but report problemsinstead of taking advantage of them.An ethical hacker is sometimes called a whitehat, a term that comes from old Western

movies, where the "good guy" wore a whitehat and the "bad guy" wore a black hat.

Who is an Ethical

Hacker???


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India's famous ethical hacker is Ankit Fadia.

He was rejected at first to attend the hack 2003 conferencebecause he was considered too young to speak on thesubject.

He is the author of various books on network security such as,the unofficial guide to ethical hacking and network security: ahackers perspective

He is also protecting Indian websites from Pakistani based webattackers.


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Criminal are now getting smarter andsmarter.

The police say that one woman who wasfrom a gang of car thieves was sostylishly dressed that no one stoppedher when she got into a car, it was onlywhen the owner shouted did peoplerealize that his car had been stolen.

Here is a small video to help us understandthe new age criminal in our context.

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