|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
How Russian hackers are exploiting the internet of things (IoT) to infiltrate corporate networks, particularly through printers, cameras, and decoders.
|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
The Department of Homeland Security issued a security alert Tuesday for small planes, warning that modern flight systems are vulnerable to hacking if someone manages to gain physical access to the aircraft.
|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
An advanced phishing scam appearing to be from the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying targeted three US companies successfully. The email had the correct domain and logo, and the malware was delivered through macros in a Word document.
|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
A list of some (but not all) of the data points Facebook uses to target ads for users, which begs to question of if the tracking and bundling of information that Facebook does is really benevolent or not.
|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Google and the University of Chicago Medical Centre are being sued after hundreds of thousands of patient records were shared without removing date stamps or doctors notes, making it possible for Google to determine the identities of each patient.
|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Hackers demanding collective ransoms of $2.5 million dollars have infiltrated 22 Texas municipalities simultaneously. This article discusses this event and the rise of ransomware attacks against government bodies.
General Ethics || Video || Short (5 min or less)
A clip from the comedy show "The Good Place" that illustrates the trolley problem.
|| General Ethics || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
A quick discussion on whether Batman should kill the Joker from the views of Immanuel Kant, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Hobbes, John Rawls, and Friedrich Nietzche.
|| General Ethics || Report || Short (5 min or less)
A brief primer on the definition of ethics.
|| General Ethics || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
A case for the use of storytelling as a more effective approach to teach ethics to computer science students, particularly sci-fi where near-future developments in tech can be imagined and discussed.