Cyber Crime and Security

A cyber crime in which a target or targets are contacted by email, telephone or text message by someone posing as a legitimate institution to lure individuals into providing sensitive data such as personally identifiable information, banking and credit card details, and passwords.

• Cyber criminal

• Phishing

• Attack password

• Online predator

What are the motives behind cyber crime?

• Demanding ransom

• Propagating religious or political beliefs

• Financial loss to the target

• Information thefts and manipulating data

• All of the above

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

What is phishing?

• When you catch fish
• Code that redirects you to a different website.
• A way of tricking people to provide their personal information.
• Code that redirects a user to a fake website

What identifies an email as a phishing scam?

• It says 'phishing scam - be aware'
• The link on the email is incorrect
• The email always has lots of spelling errors
• It won't look real.

What advice would you give to anyone suspicious of a website?

• Check the URL (website address)
• Login, and hope for the best
• Call your parents

What is a black hat hacker?

• A hackers that hacks maliciously for money, info or fame
• A hacker that finds flaws in a companies network, so the company can fix them.
• A hacker that wears a black hat

What is a white had hacker?

• A hackers that hacks maliciously for money, info or fame
• A hacker that finds flaws in a companies network, so the company can fix them.

What reason is a hacker likely to try to hack?

• Fun
• Got nothing better to do
• Money

Which of the following is not a type of cyber crime?

• Thefting

• Installing anti-virus

• Forgery

• Hacking