ACARA 7-8 Digital Technologies: Cyber security threats and phishing
Students learn what cyber security is, why accounts and data are attacked, and how to recognise phishing, malware, password attacks and interception.
One content description (AC9TDI8P13) from the full ACARA Digital Technologies Years 7–8 — Networks and Cyber Threats journey. All 22 modules below are in that journey too, with the same content — add just these to a class, or the whole strand.
Modules (22)
1
Personal data
2
Digital account
3
What cyber security is
4
Why attackers target accounts and data
5
Threat
6
Deliberate threats to data
7
Vulnerability
8
Data breach
9
Matching a threat to its process and aim
10
Social engineering
11
Phishing
12
Spotting the signs of a phishing message
13
Checking links and fake websites
14
Smishing and vishing
15
Spear phishing
16
Malware
17
Trojan horse
18
Spyware
19
Ransomware
20
Brute-force and dictionary attacks
21
Weak passwords
22
Interception of data on a network
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