Three Distinct Perspectives of Applied Ethics in the World of ICT

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Three Distinct Perspectives of Applied Ethics
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Introduction
The increasing tendency of latest technological developments in the field of ICT made
way for the rise of many types of cybercrimes globally and the chosen topic of this paper is the
major WannaCry Ransomware attack which affected more than 230,000 computers system users
in its initial phases (Chen & Bridges, 2017). It raised a huge question on the security of personal
information and the infected people were very much concerned about the issue and till date, this
particular attack has no preventive measures initially if the system is already infected, there are
some preventive measures but are not always applicable. This paper revolves around the
application of the different types of perspectives such as professional, philosophical and
sociological in applied ethics in the world of ICT and its acceptance and impact after being
incorporated in any organisation. The ethical issues related to the chosen ethical issue is
thoroughly analysed in this paper.
Professional ethics perspective
In this section of the paper, the professional perspectives of the applied ethics are
discussed and critically analysed. It is defined as the type of viewpoint which accepts values of
personal and business behaviour viewpoint and provides the supervisory standards. There are
different categories of professional ethics which are recognized by all the international ICT
organizations which shows the ways to the employers in accomplishing their organisational goals
by maintaining the ethical moralities (Durkheim, 2013). The professional ethical perspectives not
only stresses on the strict regulations and guidelines but it also helps in maintaining them
thankfully. It is established in such a method so that it meets the requirements of the business
organisation. The increasing developments in the ICT industry worldwide exposed a wide range

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on negativity which has a direct impact on the exposed environments. Those perspectives which
are imposed on the employees of an organisation also focusses on the acceptance and the
maintenance of those guidelines. The proposed guidelines are always updated according to the
requirement as there is always a change of modification of the reason for which the change is
need. Initially, it was thought that the disease was spread by a hacking organisation named as the
Lazarus group located in North Korea and it is still uncontainable. The attack happened when
there was a decline in trend of the other major ethical issues like windows exploits and
ransomware.
WannaCry ransomware is a type of worm possessing the ability of lateral movement
within an organisation without the intervention of anyone. It was observed that the computer
users who are using the Microsoft Windows OS are most vulnerable and prone to that attack.
The methodology of the attack is very crucial to understand and implement the professional
perspective according to it. The worms encrypt any type of data from a computer system and
send a notification to the users demanding ransom payments in bitcoin crypto currency (Marcial,
2017). The entire procedure is completed with the assistance of Eternal Blue which was available
in the primitive versions of the Microsoft windows operating system as it was released by an
agency named Shadow Breakers.
After the attack was spreading to different parts of the world Microsoft Corporation
decided to stop this in an urgent basis so they worked and developed an update in the form of a
patch which helped the infected computer systems from spreading the virus as it has the
capability of movement within an organisation so any computer infected in an organisation
makes the whole organisation vulnerable and thus jeopardising the chances of growth and