Personal Denial of Service Attacks (PDOS) and Online Misbehavior: The Need for Cyber Ethics and Information Security Education on University Campuses

The authors examine the need to provide basic information security and cyber ethics training for all university students, not just those pursuing an information security-related degree. The authors also discuss the need to include ethical hacking, as part of an emphasis on cyber ethics, into information securitydegreeprograms.Bothofthesetopicsarediscussedwithinthecontext of a new category of cyber crime, a Personal Denial of ServiceAttack (PDOS) that the authors have identified, along with other types of cyber crime, that are endemic to university campuses.