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HP Gets New Ethics Officer
News With the company's former ethics officer facing criminal charges, HP on Thursday hired a replacement to help put an end to spying scandals. Jon Hoak was named HP's new vice president and chief ethics and compliance officer, the company said in a...
[October 13, 2006, 9:05]
Managing Electronic Data - A Code Of Ethics
News Teaching employees about the ethics of data management is part of the daily routine for Sandy Hofmann, chief information officer of an Atlanta IT firm. Paskoff, founder and president of Employment Learning Innovations, an Atlanta firm that trains...
[July 3, 2003, 14:37]
Care Records Development Board Ethics Advisory Group: Data Quality And NCRS - Initial Scoping Paper
White Papers The Care Record Development Board has commissioned Ethics Advisory Group (EAG) to examine and report upon the ethical issues of data quality in relation to the NHS Care Record Service. This paper describes the dimensions of data quality; indicates...
[February 5, 2007, 23:00]
Designing & Implementing Codes Of Ethics & Whistleblower Hotlines
White Papers It has long been considered a best practice for public companies to adopt a strong code of ethics, to maintain a confidential reporting channel for employees to report wrongdoing, and to ensure that such employees are protected from retaliation.
[March 11, 2005, 23:00]
HP Gets New Ethics Officer
Talkback The very fact that you HAVE to have an ethics officer is scary. One would assume that the leaders of a global organization would hold the higher standards. Well, shut my mouth, I completely forgot about M$.
[October 16, 2006, 13:35]
The Ethics Of Severance Payments
White Papers This paper questions the ethics of excessive CEO severance payments. Executives often describe their position as "high-risk, high-reward" (Leonhardt). These golden parachutes have drastically changed the executive position by making it much less...
[October 25, 2005, 0:00]
Court Case Shines Light On Security Ethics
Talkback "At present, no software companies provide financial rewards for those who report valid vulnerabilities to them. Dan your just wrong. Doh! http://www.mozilla.org/security/bug-bounty.html The Mozilla Security Bug Bounty Program is designed to...
[January 14, 2005, 15:21]
Court Case Shines Light On Security Ethics
Talkback Is it true that this researcher has authored the Happy99 virus?
[January 15, 2005, 11:49]
It's Time To Put Ethics Into IT
Talkback Shame! I am not an Catholic, nor any sort of activist. I am only an IT manager with a "normal" sense of morality and conscience. I find it appalling and sickening that the richest people behind some of the richest companies can treat people not so...
[January 29, 2004, 12:57]
Applied Hacker Ethics - Foundations Of The World Wide Web
White Papers Currently, there is much discussion on new markup languages for the World Wide Web (WWW, Web). Some standard formats are accompanied by considerable fanfare, and their importance is therefore sometimes accused of being exaggerated.
[February 20, 2005, 23:00]
The Ethics Of Tracing Hacker Attacks Through The Machines Of Innocent Persons
White Papers Victims of hacker attacks are increasingly responding with a variety of "active defense" measures, including "invasive tracebacks" that are intended to identify the parties responsible for the attack by tracing its path back to its original source.
[February 20, 2005, 23:00]
Implications Of Cultural Variety For IT Codes Of Ethics
White Papers IT organisations are growing along with the international businesses they service. Driven by globalisation, the world is becoming a single workplace and marketplace. Like all professionals, IT professionals who work within these organisations...
[November 16, 2006, 23:00]
Implications Of Cultural Variety For IT Codes Of Ethics
White Papers IT organisations are growing along with the international businesses they service. Driven by globalisation, the world is becoming a single workplace and marketplace. Like all professionals, IT professionals who work within these organisations...
[November 16, 2006, 23:00]
Ethics In Distance Education: Developing Ethical Policies
White Papers The impact of technology on teaching is enormous, both teaching in the traditional classroom and at a distance. This paper takes a look at the changing world of education through distance education. There is a need to deal ethically with faculty...
[April 21, 2005, 0:00]
Court Case Shines Light On Security Ethics
News The legal action currently being brought by French software company Tegam International against Guillaume Tena, who claimed to have found flaws in its software, has sparked a debate on how the reporting of security vulnerabilities should be handled.
[January 13, 2005, 12:45]
IT's A Question Of Ethics In The Online Workplace
News We got a lot of questions from people saying they were afraid to give someone their company email address for things like weekend soccer clubs," says Jerry Guthrie, the company's ethics officer. Cautionary tales are piling up -- from United Parcel...
[October 21, 1999, 13:44]
Ethics Of Hacktivism
White Papers Hacktivism is often confused with and overlaps with on-line activism and/or cyberterrorism. Boundaries between the three areas are necessarily blurred depending on one's definition of concepts such as "damage", however distinctions may be drawn in...
[February 21, 2005, 23:00]
Crossing The Line: Ethics For The Security Professional
White Papers One often hears of the "hacker" who breaks into a system and steals credit card numbers, releases a destructive worm or maybe defaces a website. This paper describes how cross-site scripting works and what makes an application vulnerable, along...
[February 21, 2005, 23:00]
Ethics In Military And Civilian Software Development
White Papers The modern world is in fact a world driven by information. One sensible view in which to divide computing disciplines is into aspects which are dominated by either civilian or military-based industry.
[October 9, 2003, 0:00]
Big Trouble In Bigger China
Leader Ethics and Compliance Overview from Intel's homepage Courage rarely shows up in corporate statements of ethics. "Honesty and ethical conduct… is our rule every day and for all that we do. Those who cause 'especially serious harm' by providing...
[September 17, 2004, 15:00]
