MHS Computing: Y8 Cybersecurity Embedding Homework

What is the key word?

Noun: Facts and statistics collected together for reference or analysis.

Social media companies collect lots of data about their users.

Put these items of data into the correct category.

Groups:

(a) Personal information

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(b) Content

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(c) User behaviour

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(d) Data you have on others

• Friends' numbers

• Likes

• Images

• School

• Pages visited

• Shares

• Videos

• Friends' names

• Status updates

• Name

• Friends' locations

• Date of Birth

• Groups

Which law tells companies how they should use and store personal data?

• Computer Misuse Act (1990)

• Data Protection Act (2018)

• Copyright Designs & Patents Act (1988)

• Freedom of Information Act (2000)

A set of methods used by cybercriminals to deceive (trick) individuals into handing over information that they will use for fraudulent purposes.

• Phishing

• Hacking

• Social Engineering

• Blagging

What is the key word?

verb: control or influence (a person or situation) cleverly or unscrupulously.

Click on the three 'red flags' that should warn you this email is a scam.

Which social engineering attack involves the attacker watching the victim while they provide sensitive information, for example entering their PIN at a cash machine.

• Smishing

• Shouldering

• Name Generator

• Phishing

What is the key word?

Gaining unauthorised access to or unauthorised control of a computer system.

The hacker floods the targeted machine or website with lots of requests in an attempt to overload the system. ​ (a)  

Multiple computers are used to flood the target machine or website.​ (b)  

The use of a cracking dictionary to make multiple attempts to discover sensitive information such as a password.​ (c)  

• DDoS Attack
• DoS Attack
• Brute Force Attack
• Phishing
• Social Engineering

Which law covers the act of hacking?

• Computer Misuse Act (1990)

• Data Protection Act (2018)

• Copyright Designs & Patents Act (1988)

• Freedom of Information Act (2000)