Year 10
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Key learning points
- In this lesson, we will explore terms and techniques related to automated cybercrime and the vulnerabilities of a network or software that can make companies or individuals vulnerable to such attacks.
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3 Questions
Q1.
Which of the sentences below most accurately represents social engineering in cybersecurity?
A discipline in social science that refers to efforts to influence particular attitudes and social behaviours on a large scale to produce desired characteristics in a target population
Getting information from people by promising them things
Manipulating people on the telephone
Q2.
The following sentence is a description of which social engineering attack? "Trying to obtain confidential records such as passwords by sending emails that look as if they are from a legitimate, respected organisation, but contain links to fake websites that take data from their unsuspecting victims"
Blagging
Name generator attack
Pharming
Q3.
The following sentence is a description of which social engineering attack? "Redirects victims to a bogus site even if the victim has typed the correct web address. This type of scam is often applied to the websites of banks or e-commerce sites."
Blagging
Name generator attack
Phishing
3 Questions
Q1.
What is malware an abbreviation of?
Malevolent hardware
Malevolent software
Malicious hardware
Q2.
Which of the sentences below most accurately represents a worm?
A type of malware that can be combated by constantly updating software
A very dangerous type of malware
Self-replicating malware that usually embeds itself into an existing software on a device and then, once that software is run, spreads to other executable files
Q3.
Which of the sentences below most accurately represents a virus?
A type of malware that can be combated by constantly updating software
A very dangerous type of malware
Self-replicating malware that does not need to infect an existing program but is able to spread very rapidly, infecting large numbers of machines