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Organizational Systems Security
Published in Sharon Yull, BTEC National for IT Practitioners: Core Units, 2009
A number of copyright issues exists with regard to software: Software piracy – the copying of software to be used on more machines than individual licences have been paid for.Ownership – if a bespoke piece of software has been developed for an organization the copyright remains with the developer unless conditions have been written into a contract.Transference – can an employee who has developed a piece of software for their organization take the ownership and copyright with them to another? Unless this is addressed in the employee’s contract the organization will have no right to any software developed.
Computer Technology
Published in Michael M. A. Mirabito, Barbara L. Morgenstern, Mitchell Kapor, The New Communications Technologies, 2004
Michael M. A. Mirabito, Barbara L. Morgenstern, Mitchell Kapor
A challenge facing the computer industry is software piracy, the illegal copying and distribution of software. It is an economic issue—potential revenues are lost or stolen—and a matter of intellectual property rights. A panel convened to examine this situation suggested that the U.S. government should increase its “antipiracy efforts” and “strengthen the enforcement of intellectual property rights abroad and in the United States.”1 The last sentence is a key one because pirating is not limited to other countries. Although there have been crackdowns, led by software industry organizations, piracy is still rampant in the United States.
Malware Threat Analysis of IoT Devices Using Deep Learning Neural Network Methodologies
Published in Sudhir Kumar Sharma, Bharat Bhushan, Bhuvan Unhelkar, Security and Trust Issues in Internet of Things, 2020
Moksh Grover, Nikhil Sharma, Bharat Bhushan, Ila Kaushik, Aditya Khamparia
The constant availability of network can lead to an open attack on IoT devices. Pirated software and malware infection can easily target industrial IoT cloud for harmful usage along with compromising the security [7]. Development of software by disguising the illegal reuse of someone else’s work such as source codes and presenting it as their original product is known as “software piracy” [8]. By utilizing reverse engineering practices, the programmer may duplicate the logic of the original software and then in another type of source code produce the same logic [9]. It gives passage to unrestricted downloads to open source codes, pirated software, as well as popularize and promote the pirated variations of software, which is a serious threat for cyberspace security [10]. It upsurges rapidly every year and causes huge economic losses to all software corporations [11]. Every year there are business damages of up to 52.2 billion dollars as a result of public software piracy rate of approximately 39%, as stated by the 2016 report of Business Software Alliance (BSA). It has been shown by various researches that every software is made up of source code that is plagiarized in the context of logic within a 5%–20% range [12]. To identify the stolen source codes used to develop pirated software, various resourceful software plagiarism approaches are required. Source code similarity identification, software birthmark investigation, clone detection, and software bug analyses are several proposed plagiarism detection systems which are mainly text-based and employ structure analysis [13]. The structure-based analysis technique inspects the primary structure of syntax trees, source codes, function call graph of subroutines, and graph behavior. Consequently, it is restricted to a specific programming language structure. Therefore, it is hard to catch a programmer if the logic of software is reused to create a program in a different programming language due to different structure behavior. To protect and secure various smart devices, we may use the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) by scheming various intelligent malware detection and software plagiarism techniques.
Liar, liar, pants on fire! Social desirability bias in software piracy research
Published in Behaviour & Information Technology, 2022
Marton Gergely, V. Srinivasan (Chino) Rao
Software piracy, which is the unauthorised use, or copying, of software products protected by legal intellectual property rights, such as copyrights, patents, and trade secrets, has been a problematic issue for several decades (Chavarria et al. 2016; Gopal and Sanders 1997; Konstantakis et al. 2010; Mishra, Akman, and Yazici 2007). According to 2016 statistics developed by the Business Software Alliance, there is an annual revenue loss of over $52.2 billion throughout the entire industry (Business Software Alliance 2012; Moores and Esichaikul 2011; Odilova, Andrés, and Raufhon 2016; Yoo et al. 2014). It is estimated that the average worldwide piracy rate is 39%, and that roughly for every two dollars customers spend on legally obtaining software products, another dollar’s worth of software is acquired illegally. Thus, an understanding of issues related to software piracy continues to be of importance.