Ethical Hacking in Information Security Curricula

Ethical Aspects of Information Security and Privacy

This essay reviews ethical aspects of computer and information security and privacy. After an introduction of ethical approaches to information technology , the focus is first on ethical aspects of computer security. These include the moral importance of computer security, the relation between computer security and national security, the morality of hacking and computer crime, the nature of cyb...

A Hands-on Approach for Teaching Denial of Service Attacks: A Case Study

Nowadays, many academic institutions are including ethical hacking in their information security and Computer Science programs. Information security students need to experiment common ethical hacking techniques in order to be able to implement the appropriate security solutions. This will allow them to more efficiently protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of computer systems...

Security evaluation of the Accounting and Monitoring for AAI Services (AMAAIS) platform with the use of ethical hacking instruments

Hands-On Approach to Teach Security Courses at undergraduate Level Lessons Learnt

It has become imperative for companies, governments, and organizations to understand how to guard against hackers, outsiders, and even disgruntled employees who threaten their information security, integrity and daily business operations. To address national needs for computer security education, many universities have incorporated computer and security courses into their undergraduate and grad...

URL Manipulation and the Slippery Slope: The Case of the Harvard 119 Revisited

While computer ethics and information security courses try to teach computer misuse and unauthorized access as clear black and white examples, when examining the use and potentially misuse of URLs the discussion becomes less clear. This paper examines a number of computer use ethical scenarios focusing on the modification of URLs within Web browsers. Using the documented case of applicants to s...