Social Engineering, Data Interception & Brute Force Attacks
Lesson Instructions
Watch and follow the YouTube video, the lesson contains three parts:
Key Information and content - all you need to do here is watch and listen.
Learning activity - there are two activities to complete. One task is preparing you to see the signs of a phishing email and the second is a task where you need to brute force a password.
Consolidation - these are past exam question and are for deliberate practice to check your understanding.
Social Engineering, Data Interception and Brute Force Attacks Full Lesson Video.mp4Task - Phishing Task
Task - Brute Force Task
Task - Exam Questions - Deliberate Practice
Mark Scheme
Question 1
1 mark for description, 1 mark for prevention
Max 2 per threat
Data interception / passive
Data is sent to another device and is intercepted by a third party
Encryption
Phishing
An e-mail has a link that when clicked directs the user to a fake website that collects personal data
Network policy // firewall
Brute force attack
Person/software using every combination of passwords to gain access
Firewall//strong passwords