SIX INTERNET QUESTIONS

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Threats from malicious code can be classified into several categories that are generally tied to the motive behind the breach. Some software threats may be designed to channel funds from one account into another (personal/professional gain) or to cover up a separate illegal or unethical act. This is data tampering, which can be harmful and costly to an organization, but which can be approached from the standpoint of preventing or controlling access to data. In addition to data tampering, threats include viruses, worms, Trojan horses, bombs, trap doors, and spoofs.

Viruses, worms, Trojan horses and bombs are designed to destroy data. A virus is a code fragment that copies itself into a larger program, thus modifying that program. Trojan horses are programs disguised as one function when in fact they are designed to destroy or copy data. Similarly, bombs can lay dormant until some time when it destroys significant amounts of data. Worms compound the damage it inflicts by spreading from one site to another. ("Technologies" 2004).

The Internet also presents the opportunity for spoofing (appearing to be someone else for personal or professional gain), phishing (using fake e-mail to solicit personal information) and denial-of-service attacks that bring down companies' Web sites (Salkever, 2003).

REGULATORY CHALLENGES OF THE INTERNET

The regulatory issues confronting companies doing business on the Internet are wid

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stakeholdersùincluding employeesùand decreases the number of staff required to perform these functions in many cases. However, employers may worry that their employees are also using the Internet to entertain themselves, shop, or otherwise engage in activities that are of a personal rather than a professional nature. To combat this, analysts recommend that companies develop a comprehensive Internet usage policy. Such a policy should encompass not only surfing the Web, but also e-mail and using company resources to create blogs, conduct personal business or simply "surf". In this way, the Internet can be both boost productivity and cause it to decline, depending on how the company and its employees use the resource ("GAO," 2003). ETHICAL ISSUES OF THE INTERNET As is often the case, technology has moved faster than society's ability to create a legal and ethical frame of reference. Those who favor strict monitoring of employee communications maintain that since the communication uses the company's resources, the communication belongs to the company and thus the company has the right to monitor the communication at any point in the process without advance notification to the employee. Those who advocate for employee privacy ma
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