Ethical Hacking

Security and ethical employees will continue to be a vital aspect of ensuring the success of an organization. There will always be a need for ethical IT security professional as hackers will continue to force organizations to make adjustments in their business models to protect their employees, data and customers. Many organizations and managers believe application security requires simply installing a perimeter firewall, or taking a few configuration measures to prevent applications or operating systems from being attacked. This is a risky misconception. By understanding threats and respect impacts, organizations will be equipped to maintain confidentiality, availability and

The word hacking, usually associated with information technology, is a term used for the development of creative solutions for a problem by someone in a non-professional environment. With the introduction of personal computers and the internet, anyone could create solutions to problems in computer science. This led to the emergence of “hacker culture”, leading to the decentralization of computer industry (Hicks, 2014).

Despite Kenneth argues that hacktivism is morally impermissible due to its moral disvalue by referring that hacker are trying to get away from punishment and negatively affect innocent third party, I believe that non-malicious hacktivism is morally permissible. I will attack her points by arguing if the intellectual property rights is unnecessary, there will not be any legitimate punishments. Then from the utilitirism side, I will discuss the moral value or benefits of hacktivism is over its moral disvalue to the whole society.

The use of information technology in business presents major security challenges, poses serious ethical question, and affects society in significant ways. Especially, the computer crime is a growing threat to society and is caused by the criminal or irresponsible actions of individuals who are taking advantage of the widespread use and vulnerability of computers and the Internet and other networks. It presents a major challenge to the integrity, safety, and survival of most business systems.

In “The Social Construction of What?” Hacking explores many topics including the subject of physics. Hacking is a philosopher who is an expert in continental philosophy as well as social theory. He states the common claims of constructionists as X not being inevitable and that it should be improved and reformed. Hacking also speaks of how constructionists apply these criticisms to things such as gender, race, and the topic of women. He goes against the view of many physicists who believe that the results of research are “as is”. He states that the contingency of science is found in the way in which the question is in fact stated. Although, after the framing of the questions, the answers or “contents” of science are non-contingent.

The ethical issues surrounding hacking, stem from several sources mainly dealing with order and control, and information ownership. What is difficult to decipher from all the media hoopla surrounding the terms, "hacker" and "hacking" is both the simultaneous sensationalism and the condemnation of said activities. Of course just recently, even a movie was made and was appropriately called Hackers. The term and all that it implies has truly entered our popular consciousness when Hollywood has made a box office movie on it. As the advancement of computer technologies and systems of information become increasingly more and more complex in today's fast paced modern world and said technologies become an integral

The realization of potential risks to an organizations information system has been increased in the past few years. The principles of risk management, vulnerabilities, internal threats, and external threats is the first step in determining which levels of security are necessary to protect and limit the risks to an organizations information system. This essay will describe the principles of risk management as they pertain to the information system and its associated technology of Professional Security Training School. Moreover, this essay will include an exploration of the vulnerabilities of

Some people believes that software licensing restrict the technology growth due to conditions of license and giving the students unlimited authorities to entry the computer could cultivate constructive and civilized conduct of them. Computer securities is a puzzle, it will attracted people who is curious about puzzles, so without computer security it will reducing the hackers who is break in by curiosity. Finally, it will make a conclusion and recommendation as to whether software licensing is antisocial or not, ethical teaching is effectiveness or not and can eliminating the computer security reduce the computer fraud. It should be noted that the report is limited to evaluating situation from software licensing, ethical teaching and reducing computer measures, in accordance with instructions.

The purpose of this paper is to touch on the issue of Hacking. It will go into detail about the history, evolution, future and prevention of Hacking. In addition, this paper will discuss different types of hackers and their motivation behind hacking. This paper examines the major impact caused by malicious hackers and give modern examples of such attacks. To conclude, it will predict how hacking will be in the near future and give the precautionary measures Information Security professionals can take to mitigate the risk of being victimized.

"If you are a good hacker everybody knows you, But if you are a great hacker nobody knows you" (Rishabh Surya). Hacking is known in the community as a way of stealing information from people and it can be but it can also be a lot more. Hacking is a dangerous tool that can lead to a life of crime. When people hack it is to mostly gain information that would benefit them in some way. Hackers can obtain information from a lot of places they usually put their focus into one place so they are able to easily obtain information. Hacking is wrong and it is used for wrongful acts of stealing information Hacking is not ethical because it is used to steal one 's personal information, it is used to steal a business 's information, and is used to steal a government 's classified information.

Ethics are defined as “moral principles, as of an individual.” Giving dropped money back to a blind man is an example of good ethics. I believe in having a strong sense of ethics. Morality or morals can be defined as “of, relating to, or concerned with the principles or rules of right conduct or the distinction between right and wrong.” I believe having a good moral sense is crucial to participate in the world. Without one, you can make a lot of people angry, or you could get fired from a job. Legality or the laws which govern us are rules we are forced to live by. They keep us in line and stop us from doing unjust things. I believe in laws. Without them people who don’t have strong morals, or who are unethical, would be able to damage society.

The evolution of technology has significantly influenced companies' ethical standards and guidelines. These companies use technological advancements in order to ensure that the confidential information that they have regarding clients or their activity is not made public to interested parties. In order to reach this objective, companies use IT programs like firewalls, programs that are protected by passwords, security policies, and others.

A person only needs to look at the news daily to see that not one person or organization is safe from the threat posed by hackers. The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) information stolen recently only highlights the threat of such actors. The OPM hack took personal records for any government employee whom had a security clearance provided by the United States government. The infringement of personnel data by a group of hackers only raises the concern of privacy for a majority of security clearance holders. Organizations have to look at all options to securing networks and data to ensure the security mechanisms that are in place stand up to persistent threats. Most organizations can spend extraordinary amounts of money to secure data and networks, but still leave vectors that a hacker can exploit. Once all security aspects are in place a good resource is then to bring in ethical hackers or White Hat hackers in to test the security of the system. The goal of ethical hacking is to uncover vulnerabilities from an adversary’s point of view so the security system can be improved. Ethical hacking should be part of the organizations overall information risk management program, which allows for constant security improvements. In the security life cycle, ethical hacking can be viewed as a security assessment. Ethical hacking shows the

Even though a great deal of individuals believe that hacking into their personal computers or into business systems is unethical, it is done continuously. Some individuals do it for kicks, others to cause havoc in corporation’s data system, others do it to steal individual’s private information and even their identity, while others hack to assist the owners in recognizing their vulnerabilities and finding solutions to protect their information.

Technology is in many ways valuable to our society. It has come a very long way in such a short time. It is growing in such a way that Internet rules are vague and slow to emerge, causing a lot of frustration amongst its users. While many users use technology as it was intended, there are those who do not. Your typical users use technology for educational, work purposes or just plain entertainment. Then we have those who have malicious intent. In order for these users to commit cyber crimes they have to be educated and very familiar with technology. “Power and ethics have always had a close relationship, and as the old saying goes, "Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely." This means that people have a responsibility to use their power wisely and ethically. The power created by computers is no different from any other type of power, as it also has a profound effect on ethics” (Bowles, 2013). There’s a variety of ways that technology can be misused, from piracy to identity theft. It’s unfortunate that the more we learn and become familiar with technology the more likely we are to manipulate and take advantage of its capabilities. Once again, because of its constantly changing nature, the area of computer technology is one that is difficult to assign a specific set of moral codes. Technology creates a whole new set of ethical problems. Such problems include: piracy, hacking and data theft, disputed rights to products, the use of computers to commit fraud,