Midterm in Social and Professional Issues

Any software that is written with negative intentions

• shareware

• freeware

• malware

• software

it is defined as a criminal act that has been committed using a computer as the principal tool.

• hacking

• virus attacks

• identity theft

• computer crime

involves the use of an employer's computer resources for personal work.

• theft of computer time

• theft of goods

• theft of information

is an area of criminal activity that has been adapted to the Internet

• Corporate espionage

• Computer fraud

• Identity theft

it contains a great deal of information of interest to competitors, including product development plans, customer contact lists, product specifications, manufacturing process knowledge, and strategic plans.

• Corporate espionage

• Computer fraud

• Identity theft

involves not just the theft of credit card numbers, but also national insurance or social security numbers, bank account details, addresses, and any other personal data that a person might use to verify their identity.

• Computer fraud

• Corporate espionage

• Identity theft

One of the simplest and most widely used computer security measures

consists of hardware and/or software that is designed to insulate an organization's internal network (or ‘intranet’) from the wider Internet, by putting a boundary around it (a ‘firewall’).

it is another weapon in the fight against computer crime or the digitizing of biological characteristics.

it is used to closely monitor the use of a computer