Social Science and Professional Issues

Pauline Joy Ermeje Gozo

BSIT-301 Ms. Wency Trapago

1. Why we need ethics and culture?

Ethics is referring to classification such as good-bad, beautiful-ugly, which the

community members with the same values to human behavior and relations have
added, and culture is a set of common values, norms and beliefs, and ideas
shared by members of the same group. We need ethics and culture because with
the use of ethics it helps us to define what is right or wrong some businesses
must align its decisions with its values. Common shared values are honestly,
dignity, responsibility and respect for others that when working with other
cultures, it is important to recognize different values.

2. Social Science and Professional Issues

 Spam
What is spam?
Spam is unsolicited bulk messages, that is messages sent to multiple
recipients who did not ask for them. Spam has been a problem in many
different media, and invariably arises whenever, it allows people to send
many messages without per-message charges. On the internet spam has
affected UseNet, e-mail, instant messaging, blogs and blog comments,
and social media including Facebook, and twitter.

 Email scams

Email scams or email fraud refers to highly-targeted, low volume email

attacks that impersonate corporate identities to solicit fraudulent wire
transfers, steal company data, access costumer credential and capture
other confidential information. Email scams or fraud can, spoof email
fields, like they can pretend to be a legitimate business partner or supplier.
They can target a range of employees; they can be creative with subject
lines like using a clickbait. But how can we avoid this email fraud? First,
 we need to get visible. Implement a solution that can correlate and
analyze your threat data, revealing who is being targeted, who is attacking
you and what information they are trying to steal. We need to deploy core
email control and content analysis, authenticate our email, prevent data
loss, respond to threats in real time.

 Hacking

What is hacking? Hacking is an attempt to exploit a computer system or a

private network inside a computer. Simply put, it is the unauthorized
access to or control over computer network security systems for some
illicit purpose. Hacking one needs to first understand hackers. One can
easily assume them to be intelligent and highly skilled in computers. In
fact, breaking a security system requires more intelligence and expertise
than actually creating one. There are no hard and fast rules whereby we
can categorize hackers into neat compartments. However, in general
computer parlance, we call them white hats, black hats and grey hats.
White hat professionals hack to check their own security systems to make
it more hack-proof. In most cases, they are part of the same organization.
Black hat hackers hack to take control over the system for personal gains.
They can destroy, steal or even prevent authorized users from accessing
the system. They do this by finding loopholes and weaknesses in the
system. Some computer experts call them crackers instead of hackers.
Grey hat hackers comprise curious people who have just about enough
computer language skills to enable them to hack a system to locate
potential loopholes in the network security system. Grey hats differ from
black hats in the sense that the former notify the admin of the network
system about the weaknesses discovered in the system, whereas the
latter is only looking for personal gains. All kinds of hacking are
considered illegal barring the work done by white hat hackers.

REFERENCES
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/definition/hacking
https://www.proofpoint.com/us/blog/cybersecurity-essentials/cybersecurity-education-
series-what-email-fraud