Discovering Computers 2016

Tools, Apps, Devices, and the Impact of Technology

Chapter 5
Digital Security,
Ethics, and Privacy
Objectives Overview

Describe various types

Define the term, digital Discuss techniques to
of Internet and network
security risks, and prevent unauthorized
attacks, and explain
briefly describe the computer access and
ways to safeguard
types of cybercriminals use
against these attacks

Explain the ways that Discuss how

software manufacturers encryption, digital
protect against signatures, and digital
software piracy certificates work

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Objectives Overview

Identify risks and

Identify safeguards
Explain the options safeguards associated
against hardware theft,
available for backing up with wireless
vandalism, and failure
communications

Recognize issues related

to information accuracy, Discuss issues
intellectual property surrounding information
rights, codes of conduct, privacy
and green computing

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Digital Security Risks

• A digital security risk is any event or action that could

cause a loss of or damage to a computer or mobile device
hardware, software, data, information, or processing
capability
• Any illegal act involving the use of a computer or related
devices generally is referred to as a computer crime
• A cybercrime is an online or Internet-based illegal act

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Digital Security Risks

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Digital Security Risks

Hacker Cracker Script kiddie

Unethical
Corporate spies Cyberextortionist
employees

Cyberterrorist

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Internet and Network Attacks
• Information transmitted
over networks has a higher
degree of security risk than
information kept on an
organization’s premises
• Malware, short for
malicious software, consists
of programs that act
without a user’s knowledge
and deliberately alter the
operations of computers
and mobile devices
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Internet and Network Attacks
• A botnet is a group of compromised computers or mobile devices
connected to a network
– A compromised computer or device is known as a zombie
• A denial of service attack (DoS attack) disrupts computer access to
an Internet service
– Distributed DoS attack (DDoS attack)
• A back door is a program or set of instructions in a program that
allow users to bypass security controls
• Spoofing is a technique intruders use to make their network or
Internet transmission appear legitimate

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Internet and Network Attacks

• A firewall is hardware and/or software that

protects a network’s resources from intrusion

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Unauthorized Access and Use

Unauthorized
Unauthorized use is the use
access is the of a
use of a computer or
computer or its data for
network unapproved
without or possibly
permission illegal
activities

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Unauthorized Access and Use

• Organizations take
several measures to
help prevent
unauthorized access
and use
– Acceptable use policy
– Disable file and printer
sharing

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Unauthorized Access and Use

• Access controls define who can access a

computer, device, or network; when they can
access it; and what actions they can take while
accessing it
• The computer, device, or network should maintain
an audit trail that records in a file both successful
and unsuccessful access attempts
– User name
– Password
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Unauthorized Access and Use
• A passphrase is a private combination of words, often containing
mixed capitalization and punctuation, associated with a user name
that allows access to certain computer resources
• A PIN (personal identification number), sometimes called a
passcode, is a numeric password, either assigned by a company or
selected by a user
• A possessed object is any item that you must possess, or carry with
you, in order to gain access to a computer or computer facility
• A biometric device authenticates a person’s identity by translating
a personal characteristic into a digital code that is compared with a
digital code in a computer or mobile device verifying a physical or
behavioral characteristic
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Unauthorized Access and Use

Face
Fingerprint
recognition
reader
system

Hand Voice
geometry verification
system system

Signature Iris
verification recognition
system system
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Unauthorized Access and Use

• Two-step verification uses two separate methods,

one after the next, to verify the identity of a user

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Unauthorized Access and Use

• Digital forensics is the discovery, collection, and

analysis of evidence found on computers and
networks
• Many areas use digital forensics
Law Criminal Military
enforcement prosecutors intelligence

Information
Insurance
security
agencies
departments
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Software Theft

• Software theft occurs when someone:

Steals software Intentionally

media erases programs

Illegally registers
Illegally copies a
and/or activates
program
a program
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Software Theft

• Many manufacturers incorporate an activation

process into their programs to ensure the
software is not installed on more computers than
legally licensed
• During the product activation, which is conducted
either online or by phone, users provide the
software product’s identification number to
associate the software with the computer or
mobile device on which the software is installed
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Software Theft

• A license agreement is the right to use software

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Information Theft

• Information theft occurs when someone steals

personal or confidential information
• Encryption is a process of converting data that is
readable by humans into encoded characters to
prevent unauthorized access

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Information Theft

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Information Theft

• A digital signature is an encrypted code that a

person, website, or organization attaches to an
electronic message to verify the identity of the
message sender
– Often used to ensure that an impostor is not participating
in an Internet transaction
• A digital certificate is a notice that guarantees a user
or a website is legitimate
• A website that uses encryption techniques to secure
its data is known as a secure site
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Information Theft

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Hardware Theft, Vandalism, and Failure

Hardware vandalism
Hardware theft is the
is the act of defacing
act of stealing digital
or destroying digital
equipment
equipment

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Backing Up – The Ultimate Safeguard

• A backup is a duplicate of a file, program, or

media that can be used if the original is lost,
damaged, or destroyed
– To back up a file means to make a copy of it
• Off-site backups are stored in a location separate
from the computer or mobile device site

Cloud
Storage

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Backing Up – The Ultimate Safeguard

• Categories of backups: • Three-generation

– Full backup policy
– Differential
– Incremental Grandparent

– Selective
– Continuous data
protection Parent
– Cloud

Child

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Wireless Security
• Wireless access poses
additional security risks
• Some perpetrators connect
to other’s wireless networks
to gain free Internet access
or confidential data
• Others connect to a
network through an
unsecured wireless access
point (WAP) or combination
router/WAP

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Ethics and Society

• Technology ethics are

the moral guidelines that
govern the use of
computers, mobile
devices, information
systems, and related
technologies
• Information accuracy is a
concern
– Not all information on the
Internet is correct
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Ethics and Society

• Intellectual property refers to unique and original

works such as ideas, inventions, art, writings,
processes, company and product names, and logos
• Intellectual property rights are the rights to which
creators are entitled to their work
• A copyright protects any tangible form of expression
• Digital rights management (DRM) is a strategy
designed to prevent illegal distribution of movies,
music, and other digital content
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Ethics and Society

• A code of conduct is a written guideline that helps

determine whether a specification is
ethical/unethical or allowed/not allowed

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Ethics and Society

• Green computing involves reducing the electricity

and environmental waste while using computers,
mobile devices, and related technologies

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Information Privacy

• Information privacy refers to the right of individuals

and companies to deny or restrict the collection,
use, and dissemination of information about them
• Huge databases store data online
• Websites often collect data about you, so that they
can customize advertisements and send you
personalized email messages
• Some employers monitor your computer usage and
email messages
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Information Privacy

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Information Privacy

• Information about you

can be stored in a
database when you:
– Fill out a printed or
online form
– Create a profile on an
online social network
– Register a product
warranty

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Information Privacy

• A cookie is a small text file that a web server stores on

your computer
• Websites use cookies for a variety of reasons:
Store user Assist with
Allow for
names and/or online
personalization
passwords shopping

Track how
Target
often users visit
advertisements
a site
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Information Privacy

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Information Privacy

• Phishing is a scam in which a perpetrator sends an

official looking email message that attempts to
obtain your personal and/or financial information
• With clickjacking, an object that can be tapped or
clicked on a website contains a malicious program

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Information Privacy

• Spyware is a program placed on a computer or

mobile device without the user’s knowledge that
secretly collects information about the user and
then communicates the information it collects to
some outside source while the user is online
• Adware is a program that displays an online
advertisement in a banner or pop-up window on
webpages, email messages, or other Internet
services
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Information Privacy

• Social engineering is defined as gaining

unauthorized access to or obtaining confidential
information by taking advantage of the trusting
human nature of some victims and the naivety of
others

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Information Privacy

• The concern about privacy has led to the

enactment of federal and state laws regarding the
storage and disclosure of personal data
– See Table 5-3 on page 246 for a listing of major U.S.
government laws concerning privacy

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Information Privacy

Employee monitoring involves the use of computers, mobile

devices, or cameras to observe, record, and review an employee’s
use of a technology, including communications such as email
messages, keyboard activity (used to measure productivity), and
websites visited

Many programs exist that easily allow employers to monitor

employees. Further, it is legal for employers to use these
programs

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Information Privacy

• Content filtering is the

process of restricting
access to certain
material
– Many businesses use
content filtering
• Web filtering software
restricts access to
specified websites

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Summary

Risks and safeguards associated

with Internet and network
attacks, unauthorized access and
Variety of digital security risks Cybercrime and cybercriminals
use, software theft, information
theft, and hardware theft,
vandalism, and failure

Various backup strategies and Ethical issues in society and

methods of securing wireless various ways to protect the
communications privacy of personal information

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Tools, Apps, Devices, and the Impact of Technology

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Digital Security,
Ethics, and Privacy
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