Essay On Ethical And Ethical Issues

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One of the most significant concern facing IT industry in the 21st century is legal, social, ethical and professional issues that are associated with appropriate uses of technologies in computing. During the implantation of the Greenwich Freecycling website, many of these issues were encountered therefore by deploying the correct combination of technologies that is available when implementing the website some of these issues were conquered and overcome.
Legal and ethical issues in computing are not as straight forward as one expects, consequently these two comprehensive concepts can be divided into many sub-sections such as computer ethics, which is a moral standard used as a guideline for computer users, Code of ethics is …show more content…

Ethically hacking might be seen wrong but it does have positive aspects which benefit society by creatively exploring new ways of using technology which helps to work around bugs, exposing security risks in software and website, this helps to evaluate the system which in turn enhances security performance for companies that do collect and store sensitive customer data.
One of the biggest data breach that occurred is when eBay a “California-based company who has 128 million active users and are accounted for $212 billion worth of commerce on it various marketplaces” (Leo Kelion,2014), said to have been a casualty of a cyber-attack that breached and accessed the information after obtaining a small number of employees’ sensitive data, as a result the database that has been compromised contained name, encrypted the password, email, address, phone number and date of birth of the eBay’s

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