Cybercrime

Issues involving security seem to arise almost daily. Sometimes these issues and controversies are reported in daily newspapers, such as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Guardian and Le Monde as well as in weekly magazines such as TIME and Newsweek. ‘Cybercrime’ is also often discussed in the ‘blogosphere’ (e.g. Web logs or ‘blogs’), and these issues are also now regularly tracked on some websites dedicated to the ethical and/or social aspects of cyber technology.

Take some time to search the Web for such news, and locate a current story (within the last year) about a cyber-incident affecting privacy, security, intellectual property, etc. For this Discussion, you will analyse the ethical and/or social issues involved in your story. How and why did these issues occur? What is being, or was, done to remedy said issue? Do you think the solution(s) is/are effective? Would you do anything differently?

To complete this Discussion:

Post:Create an initial post in which you summarise a current story regarding a cyber-incident affecting privacy, security, intellectual property or any other similar topic. Explain why you chose this story. Using the information you found regarding your story, analyse the ethical and/or social issues involved and how and why they occurred. Explain what is being done (or was done) to resolve the issues in question and evaluate these solutions’ effectiveness. Justify your reasoning and explain what you would do differently, if anything, and why.