Overview
Students pick a type of cyber attack or cybercrime and do some “rapid research” to learn more about it. The lesson can be used to wrap up the unit or students may optionally complete the Practice PT in the following lesson before moving on to complete the Explore PT.Vocab
- Antivirus Software - usually keeps big lists of known viruses and scans your computer looking for the virus programs in order to get rid of them.
- DDoS Attack - Distributed Denial of Service Attack. Typically a virus installed on many computers (thousands) activate at the same time and flood a target with traffic to the point the server becomes overwhelmed.
- Firewall - software that runs on servers (often routers) that only allows traffic through according to some set of security rules.
- Phishing Scam - a thief trying to trick you into sending them sensitive information. Typically these include emails about system updates asking you send your username and password, social security number or other things.
- SSL/TLS - Secure Sockets layer / Transport Layer Security - An encryption layer of HTTP that uses public key cryptography to establish a secure connection.
- Virus - a program that runs on a computer to do something the owner of the computer does not intend.
Resources
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Rapid Research - Cybercrime - Activity Guide (copy as MS Word, Google Doc)
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Cybersecurity One-Pager - Template (copy as MS Word, Google Doc)
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Cybersecurity and Crime Video Worksheet (Optional) - Video Worksheet (copy as MS Word, Google Doc)
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How Not To Get Hacked - Web Resource