Year 8 - Cyber Crime and Cyber Security Assessment

A phishing email is one which:

• requests a payment for goods you have not received

• offers you products in which you may have no interest

• encourages you to click on a link to a fraudulent website

• contains abusive and threatening language

If you receive an email from a well-known company, but its name is misspelt in the sender’s address, you should:

• click on the link in the email to check if it’s genuine

• reply, pointing out the error

• report it as a possible phishing scam

• forward the email to a friend to check

A fraudulent email which is trying to obtain your username and password for a particular site will typically:

• have a heading with a logo which appears genuine

• address you by name

• offer large sums of money

• appear to come from a friend

You can tell whether a link in email will take you to a genuine website, for example belonging to a bank, without risk, by:

• pointing to the link or hovering over it without clicking

• deleting the email

• replying to the email

• clicking on the link

Hacking is illegal under:

• The Data Protection Act

• The Computer Misuse Act

• Copyright Law

• Health and Safety Law

You receive a desperate plea for help from a friend who says they are stuck overseas and all their money has been stolen. You should:

• reply to the email

• delete the email

• send some money

• forward the email to a mutual friend

Gaining unauthorised access to someone else’s computer files is known as:

• copyright infringement

• hacking

• virus attack

• data theft

You can protect yourself against spam or fraudulent emails by:

• using a spam filter

• never clicking on links that you are suspicious of

• being aware of different types of fraudulent email

• all of the above

Under the Computer Misuse Act, it is illegal to:

• look at someone else’s computer files without permission

• look at someone else’s computer files without permission with intent to commit further criminal offences

• change data on someone else’s computer files without permission

• all of the above

Hackers:

• will destroy your computer hardware

• are rarely able to steal personal data

• sometimes steal passwords so they can access your online account

• can only steal one password at a time