ACARA 9-10 Digital Technologies: Types of cyber security threats
Students investigate how malware, social engineering, password attacks, network interception and denial of service attacks work and what the attacker is trying to achieve.
One content description (AC9TDI10P13) from the full ACARA Digital Technologies Years 9–10 — Cyber Security Threats and Vulnerabilities journey. All 24 modules below are in that journey too, with the same content — add just these to a class, or the whole strand.
Modules (24)
1
Malware
2
Viruses
3
Worms
4
Trojan horse
5
Spyware
6
Adware
7
Ransomware
8
Social engineering
9
Phishing
10
Spear phishing
11
Smishing and vishing
12
Pretexting
13
Physical social engineering: tailgating and baiting
14
Pharming
15
Brute-force and dictionary attacks
16
Weak passwords
17
Interception of data on a network
18
Man-in-the-middle attacks
19
Risks of unsecured public Wi-Fi
20
Unauthorised network access
21
Denial of service attacks
22
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack
23
Matching a threat to its process and aim
24
Attackers using AI
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