“IPad’s” Security Breach

BUS 508: Contemporary Business
August 16, 2011
Strayer University
Dr. Robert L. Kight

Assignment 4: iPad’s Security Breach

This document will attempt to discuss hacking into a Web site. Is it ever justifiable? The document will create a corporate ethics statement for a computer security firm that would allow or even encourage activities like hacking. The document will discuss whether it is important for organizations like Gawker Media to be socially responsible. It will determine factors CEOs should consider when responding to a security breach. Finally, it will create an email script to be sent to AT&T customers informing them of the security breach and a plan to resolve the issue and state the rationale.
Apply your theory to a real-world case in which someone hacked into a system, including the name of the company and details. As I attempt to discuss this assignment, I could not avoid thinking about the age-old opinion that Apple products were unique, and that they were protected against criminal encroachments. As such, Apple became one of the hottest technological innovations in the industry. Today, like most other such technology, Apple is becoming increasingly vulnerable to intrusion. It is becoming a medium for posing threats to an entire corporate network as well as devices for official and unofficial use. My answer to this question is twofold. In other words qualification of any kind for such conduct must be based on the circumstances thereof. For example, on August 9, 2011, Leon Neal (AFP) with The Hollywood Reporter reported that, Blackberry’s website was compromised and hacked into. According to his article for The Hollywood Reporter, Leon Neal wrote,” law enforcement authority in London (Great Britain} implemented action to hack Blackberry’s private inter-user network, BBM during the recent riots in