May 21, 2012
The article I chose for this week is “Wireless Tech Makes Health Care Security a ‘Major Concern’” by Antone Gonsalves. The article addresses that medical equipment has advanced so much so fast, that the security that protects those new technologies has lagged. Gonsalves points out that “While the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulates the [...]
By DavidLi Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305), Ethics and Information Security, Networks, Telecom and Mobile Technology
May 13, 2012
For this weeks post, I read an article by Sara Yin titled “Report: FBI Wants to Wiretap Facebook, Twitter, Google”. The article states that the FBI wants some legality to help them expand their surveillance capabilities to cover a good portion of the Internet. The FBI wants “…social networks, e-mail providers, and other peer-to-peer services [...]
By DavidLi Category: Customer Relationship Management and Business Intelligence, Database Design and Development (CIS 305), Ethics and Information Security, Globalization, Innovation, and future trends, Uncategorized
May 7, 2012
In this week’s article named “BART Cops’ Data Posted By Hackers” by Jaikumar Vijayan, I read about how BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) was attacked and their employee’s personal information was posted onto the internet. When the attack was finished, “…names, home addresses, email addresses, and passwords of 102 police officers belonging to San Francisco Bay [...]
By DavidLi Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305), Databases and Data Warehouses, Ethics and Information Security, Uncategorized
May 6, 2012
In an article found in PC magazine online. They say that there is a flaw in the iPhone Facebook app that can potentially allow a hacker or mischievous individual access to ones Facebook account. They find that the credentials to such accounts are stored in the plist or program list file within the app in [...]
By NelsonTena Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305), Ethics and Information Security, Globalization, Innovation, and future trends, Networks, Telecom and Mobile Technology, Systems Development and Project Management
Apr 30, 2012
This week I read an interesting article that concerns the safety of uploading pictures taken from a smartphone. The article “How a Cell Phone Busted a Hacker”, by Taylor Armerding, Armerding explains how the FBI tracked down an “Anonymous-linked CabinCr3w” hacktivist member from a pictures posted on various websites bragging about his achievements (Armerding, 2012). The hacker, [...]
By DavidLi Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305), Ethics and Information Security, Networks, Telecom and Mobile Technology, Uncategorized
Apr 29, 2012
In an article found in Computerworld.com, it talks about how the CISPA (Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act) Bill raises concerns about privacy and how the data will be harnessed and used. The purpose of the bill is to “ make it easier for Internet Service Provides and Internet companies to collect and share cyber threat [...]
By NelsonTena Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305), Databases and Data Warehouses, E-Business, Enterprise Architectures, Ethics and Information Security, IS in Business, Networks, Telecom and Mobile Technology, Uncategorized
Apr 29, 2012
This article brings to light the importance of data governance. Basically data governance is the discipline of converging data quality, management, policies and risk management revolving around the handling of data. Summed up, its just like talking about data integrity. There are five steps toward data governance, starting with a working group, developing an operational [...]
By Chris Sabatino Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305), Databases and Data Warehouses, E-Business, Ethics and Information Security, IS in Business, Strategic Decision Making
Apr 23, 2012
This blog continues my previous blog named “Google’s Street View car’s do more than just take pictures”. The FCC now says that the collection of Wi-Fi information from Google’s Street View cars during the building process of Google Map’s Street View is actually legal. In the Article “Google Didn’t Steal Wi-Fi — Here’s Why” by [...]
By DavidLi Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305), Ethics and Information Security, Networks, Telecom and Mobile Technology
Apr 15, 2012
Google’s Street View cars not only have been taking pictures of streets, avenues, and highways, they have been taking gathering up data on neighborhood Wi-Fi data as well. In the article “Google’s Wi-Fi Spying: What were they thinking?”, author Jeff Burtolucci explains that Google’s “experimental Wi-Fi project” (Burtolucci, 2010) has been collecting wireless network information [...]
By DavidLi Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305), Ethics and Information Security, Networks, Telecom and Mobile Technology
Sep 28, 2010
Lauren Hebert IS 130 Blog Presentation Chapter 4.1 Ethics Article: CNN Netiquette section “Be polite and put your smartphone down” Aug. 27,2010 by: Andrea Bartz and Breanna Ehrlich This article was an overview of how cell phones used to be in the past. A quick beep to inform the person that they had a call [...]
By Lauren Hebert Category: Ethics and Information Security
Sep 23, 2010
Putting a Price on Privacy. This article related to chapter 4 because it talked about information and information privacy .Because of new technologies and things like online file sharing information has been very easily accessible. The down side is both kinds of information is very easily accessible, personal and non personal. What drew me to [...]
By waruni mahadiulwewa Category: Ethics and Information Security
Sep 22, 2010
MEGADEAL, ACADEMIC UNIVERSE CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY-FRESNO LIBRARY FRESNO, CA Terms: (information privacy) Source: Major World Publications Project ID: 5 of 989 DOCUMENTS The International Herald Tribune July 21, 2010 Wednesday Putting a price on privacy; In the Blogs: Bits BYLINE: BY STEVE LOHR SECTION: FINANCE; Pg. 17 LENGTH: 488 words ABSTRACT A paper by three [...]
By waruni mahadiulwewa Category: Ethics and Information Security
Sep 22, 2010
ASP.NET is a widely used web application framework that allows programmers to make web sites, web applications, and web services. The article, “Hacking tool exploits faulty AES cookie encryption implementations” by Robert Westervelt points out the weakness of the ASP.NET web applications. In the article, Westervelt talks about Padding Orcale Exploit Tool (POET) that is [...]
By Harpreet Gill Category: Ethics and Information Security
Sep 22, 2010
Sony has been the lucky company so far that there very popular game console has yet to be jail broken until well skilled hackers have now made system software to mod the Sony Playstation 3 and make it hackable. Microsoft and Nintendo know this feeling all to well. Since 2008 they have been dealing with [...]
By andrewg Category: Ethics and Information Security
Sep 22, 2010
Chapter 4.2 of Business Information Driven Systems talks about information security policies and plans. According to the chapter, information security should first be measure through people and then technology because organizations need to set their standards in details, before they can implement through technology. Firms need to invest in three areas of technology, which include [...]
By maisylo Category: Ethics and Information Security
Sep 22, 2010
The article titled “‘Mouse Over’ Security Flaw Causes Twitter Trouble” on CNN’s tech website described the recent issue regarding a security bug that hit Twitter users. This security bug could have caused dangerous content to appear on a computer screen by simply moving the mouse over a particular link. Graham Cluley, who did the research on [...]
By osvaldogomez Category: Ethics and Information Security
Sep 21, 2010
In the article from www.betanews.com, they explained how hackers cracked the code to the game Halo Reach. Developers at Microsoft gave out 99,999 Microsoft Points worth $1,250.00 to avid game reviewers prior to the release date of September 14, 2010. Unfortunately for Microsoft, game modders at “GameTut” known for cracking computer codes got access to [...]
By TomKosanouvong Category: Ethics and Information Security
Sep 21, 2010
The chapter that was assigned to me was Chapter 4 Section 4.2 which involves the concept of “Information Security”. The article that I chose is called “Voice: The New Fingerprint?”, this article mainly talks about how identity theft has been rapidly increasing throughout the years. The government had to intervene in this problem and therefore [...]
By Erika Leon Category: Ethics and Information Security
Sep 20, 2010
The article I found for chapter 4.1 in relation to ethics is called, “About Ethics in Information Technology” by Nicholas Katers. This article discusses the matter of how ethics has been applied to the technology world today. The article touches on data mining, social networking, e-mail spamming, intellectual property and online filtering. It explained how [...]
By myadire Category: Ethics and Information Security
Dec 16, 2009
“Cybercrime: a secret underground economy” This article denounces the stereotype of geeks creating and sending out viruses and maintains that it is a growing industry. Cyber criminals steal one’s personal information such as credit card numbers or bank account numbers by way of malware, spyware viruses, Trojan horses etc. And then sell that information online [...]
By joserosas Category: Ethics and Information Security