Posted: November 14th, 2022

Cyber Ethics Articles Summary

Cyber Ethics Articles Summary
Over the decades there has been a debate on how vulnerabilities should be disclosed. Lately, this discussion was brought into the public limelight when Microsoft decided to its public notification system. Google’s was also not left behind as they also decided to publish vulnerability details that are found in Windows. Questions have been raised how vulnerability should be handled. Generally, disclosure may be through responsible disclosure or full disclosure. Companies such as Facebook, Microsoft and Google have implemented bug bounty programs. The only difference between this program and responsible disclosure is that there is compensation for the security researcher who notices the vulnerability (Jonathan).
In the modern society, the internet has become part of everyone’s life including children. People feel invisible while online and may use this opportunity to do things that they may not practice in public. The community faces the challenge of preventing children from adopting the poor e-habits. However, by practicing, teaching cyber citizenship, such as participating with the child online might prove helpful. Others include setting of rules for our children while using the net (Shumway).
Governments have come under huge criticism from intelligence agencies such as Tech-savvy Americans over privacy. However, it is important to notice that cyber security is no longer about email account and bytes, ones, and zeros, but the attack can also be on power plants, traffic grid among others. There have been cyber- physical attacks on the systems between countries such Russia-Estonia, US-Iran, China-US which is still ongoing, Iran-US and Russia –Georgia. This goes without saying that the work the CIA, the FBI, and the NSA are doing is very critical since the government has a duty to protect her citizens (Pawlick).

References

Jonathan, Trull. Responsible Disclosure: Cyber Security Ethics. 2015.
Pawlick, Jeffrey. Applying Old Values to a New Medium. 2016.
Shumway, Ann. When cyber gets physical: why we need the NSA. 2016.