ACARA 9-10 Digital Technologies: Software vulnerabilities
Students explore how flaws and insecure settings in software, such as injection attacks, outdated versions and exposed secrets, are found, reported and patched.
One content description (AC9TDI10P13) from the full ACARA Digital Technologies Years 9–10 — Cyber Security Threats and Vulnerabilities journey. All 12 modules below are in that journey too, with the same content — add just these to a class, or the whole strand.
Modules (12)
1
Software vulnerabilities
2
Input validation
3
SQL injection
4
Cross-site scripting (XSS)
5
Buffer overflow
6
Zero-day vulnerabilities
7
Outdated versions of software
8
Default credentials and insecure settings
9
Improper credential management
10
Hard-coded API keys and secrets
11
Reading a vulnerability report
12
Patch management
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