Nowadays, people often use computers to store various personal data, and valuable data on the business of the company and others. Every computer should have security to protect all important data from computer security risk, such as attacks from hackers, crackers and also cyber terrorisms. A computer security risk is any event or action that could cause a loss or damage to computer hardware, software, data, or information. The intruders acted intentionally or accidentally. Some intruders breach the computer security by accessing data without modifying the data and some of them access, modify and sometimes delete the data. An intentional breach of computer security often involves a deliberate act that is against the law.
Some of the common computer security risks include, computer viruses, unauthorized access and use of computer systems, hardware theft and software theft, information theft and information privacy and also system failure. A computer virus is a potentially damaging computer program that affects the computer badly by altering the way the computer works without the user’s knowledge or permission. Computer viruses, worms, Trojan horses and rootkits are classified as malware, which are programs that act without a user’s knowledge.
Computer crime generally is any illegal act involving a computer. The term of cybercrime usually refers to online or Internet-based illegal acts. The perpetrators cybercrime can be divided into seven categories which is hacker, cracker, script kiddie, unethical employee, corporate spy, cyber terrorism and cyber extortionist. A hacker is someone who accesses a computer or network illegally. Some of them claim the intent of their security breaches is to improve security. A cracker also is someo...
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...isco. I hope in that way, francisco will regretted his action and will not repeat it again . As a friend, I should not report the matter to the dean of students because this case not only college students involved but, anyone will be involved. In addition, this action also will bring down Fransisco reputation in the college. He will feel embarrassed to continue his studies at the college. Next, I also do not report these crimes to the software company that offers a high reward to anyone for turning in unscrupulous programmers . If I do that, I will feel guilty for taking advantage against Francisco because of the crime he committed . As a friend , I'll still thinking about what's best for my friends and i will never stabbeb back with my own friends
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/Print/2013/11/07/feature_what_happens_when_you_arrested_by_computer_police/
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Security helps the organization meet its business objectives or mission by protecting its physical and financial resources, reputation, legal position, employees, and other tangible and intangible assets through the selection and application of appropriate safeguards. Businesses should establish roles and responsibilities of all personnel and staff members. However, a Chief Information Officer should be appointed to direct an organization’s day to day management of information assets. Supporting roles are performed by the service providers and include systems operations, whose personnel design and operate the computer systems. Each team member must be held accountable in ensuring all of the rules and policies are being followed, as well as, understanding their roles, responsibilities and functions. Organizations information processing systems are vulnerable to many threats that can inflict various types of damage that can result in significant losses (Harris, 2014). Losses can come from actions from trusted employees that defraud the system, outside hackers, or from careless data entry. The major threat to information protection is error and omissions that data entry personnel, users, system operators and programmers make. To better protect business information resources, organizations should conduct a risk analysis to see what
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The issue with tackling the ethical hacker scenario is that the event is almost entirely action based. There is no end to give meaning to the action and there is no finalized result or indication that it impacted happiness, which many ethical theories depend on. Namely consequentialism, utilitarianism and ethical egotism require an end result in one form or another. There is also no purpose in committing the hackings which makes applying moral theories that deal with motivation and intent, ethical egotism and aspects of virtue ethics, increasingly more difficult to do effectively. Therefore moral theories that apply almost exclusively to the action itself will be utilized in this argument.
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Privacy exist wherever personal information or other sensitive information is collected, stored, used, and finally destroyed or deleted – in digital form or otherwise. The challenge of data privacy is to use data while safe-guarding individual's privacy preferences and their personally identifiable information. The fields of computer security, data security, and information security design and utilize software, hardware, and human resources to address this issue.
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Computer crime or Cyber Crime is defined as any type of crime that involves or regards a computer or computer network. Cyber Crime mainly means that the computer may be used as a tool in the commission of the crime or the computer may be the main target of the criminal’s crime. The rapid growth of technology and gadgets as well as the further de...
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