be best in my comfort zone. The information technician is an industrial occupation whose responsibility is maintaining communications and the computer systems. They are responsible for installing and maintaining computer hardware, software, and networks. The Information Technician reports to the Senior Administrative Officer and provides the hardware and software maintenance, training and consultation, and recommendations about future planning and development of resources. This job requires the
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involved with hacking in to computer systems, but the legality of such actions is far too grey an area to be discussed here. Computer crime, or cybercrime, refers to any crime that involves a computer and a network, where the computers may or may not have played an instrumental part in the commission of a crime.[1] Netcrime refers, more precisely, to criminal exploitation of the Internet.[2] Issues surrounding this type of crime have become high-profile, particularly those surrounding hacking, copyright
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Coriena Tuitt Report on legal and ethical issues Contents Introduction…………………………………………………………………………………………..1 Ethical issues……………………………………………………………………………………….. 2 Legal issues………………………………………………………………………………………….3 Legal, Ethical and operational issues……………………………………………………………..7 * Introduction This report will explain the legal and ethical issues that relate to the use of business information. l personally think that legal and ethical issues are usually to do with something that involves
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0975-4172 & Print ISSN: 0975-4350 Ethical Issues in Computer use: A Study from Islamic Perspective By Abdul Kadar Muhammad Masum International Islamic University, Bangladesh Abstract - Computer users are continuously facing ethical challenges as society adopts new and increasingly complex tools and technologies. These ethical challenges can be managed by Islamic code of life. In this paper, we have studied and tried to identify, how computer affects the ethical issues of the society. In this
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Accounting Information Systems The definition of Accounting Information Systems (AIS) is a “discipline that informs theory and practice in accounting and auditing, in a way that draws upon information systems, broadly defined. In so doing, AIS employs theory and practice from the cognate disciplines of MIS and computer science as well as from accounting, auditing, other business disciplines including management and marketing, and the disciplines of economics, psychology, sociology, philosophy
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While some may be looking to phish your personal or proprietary information and identity for resale, others simply just want to use your computer as a platform from which to attack other unknowing targets. The people responsible for computer security and digital forensic examination need to continually update their skills, tools and knowledge to stay abreast with fast growing technology of today. In this day and time you can no longer just unplug a computer and leave it to be evaluated later
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and click Save. Figure 11 Save all scans Close the Zenmap window. Part 2: Conducting a Vulnerability Scan with OpenVAS Note: OpenVAS, and similar tools, perform vulnerability assessment of Unix, Windows, and network infrastructures and can perform a network discovery of devices, operating systems, applications, databases, and services running on those devices. These tools are typically used to complete the scanning and vulnerability assessment phase of the
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that thrived for more than a decade and had over 2,000,000 clients. Most of these were in the United States. This paper discusses the Coreflood bot-net, its’ takedown by the Federal Bureau of Investigations and the Department of Justice, privacy and security issues surrounding the takedown and were their actions warranted? Coreflood Takedown by the FBI Coreflood was a small piece of malware that had been active for more than 10 years. The computers that were infected with Coreflood could perform
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cyber crime. (a) One definition says that ‘cyber crime’ consists of only those offences provided in the Information technology Act, 2000. As per this definition, cyber crimes would mainly be restricted to tampering with the computer source code, hacking and cyber pornography. Cyber fraud, defamation, harassment, e – mail abuse and IPR thefts, would not classify as cyber crimes. (b) In second definition, ‘cyber crime’ is said to be an act of commission or omission with the internet, committed on the
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these technological woes, various laws and procedures have been put in place to protect the users and societies that wish to implement these systems features into their lives. In this paper we will examine two laws specifically what they entail, the ethical dilemmas involved in the creation of these acts, and the necessitating of the information technologies provision. These laws are the Child Internet Protection Act, 2000 and the Computer Fraud Abuse Act, 1986. The Child Internet Protection Act (CIPA)
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