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.mp4

Task - Phishing Task

Task - Brute Force Task

Brute Force Password Task

Task - Exam Questions - Deliberate Practice

Exam Questions - System Security

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

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