Week of October 4th - October 8th, 2021

Monday:

No class due to NJSLA testing

Slide show for security/malware/privacy

Tuesday:

Homework for today: Khan Academy: 

 

Begin unit 3: Basic principles of computer security, malware, privacy, and cyberwar.

Essential Questions:

• How does the pervasiveness of networked computers affect our personal safety and privacy?
• How does the pervasiveness of networked computers affect our national security?

Discussion: how have you been affected by computer security issues?

Students list ways to avoid getting malware on their computers.

Ransomeware

5 bad viruses - video

WiFi - safe?

Wednesday:
Group 4 current events:
P1: Alana, Kylie, Dhriti, Fomon
P2: Anya, Avijit, Carolyn, Sreeja, Alice

Homework for today is to read the following: (it looks like a lot but these are short):

• Slammed! An inside view of the worm that crashed the Internet in 15 minutes (2003)  (If wired.com says that you have read all your articles for this month, try again with your browser in incognito mode, delete your wired.com cookies, or try a different browser.)
• Hacker Lexicon: A Guide to Ransomware, the Scary Hack That’s on the Rise (2017)
• New Jersey hospital chain pays attackers to thwart ransomware incident (2019)

Thursday:
Homework for today is to read the following:

• How Phishing Works (from HowStuffWorks)
• Creepster of the Week: Webcam Hijacker Gets Six Year Sentence (2011)
• What is a keylogger?
• Health Insurer Anthem is Hacked, Exposing Millions of Patients' Data (2015)
• Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They're Not Keeping It Secret (2018)
  

Examples of Phishing attempts

 

Google phishing quiz

Spyware and Keylogging video

Location Tracking video

Smart TV ...

Identity theft video

Medical identity theft

Friday:

Homework for today is to read the following:

• How Zombie Networks Fuel Cybercrime (2004)
• The Untold Story of NotPetya, the Most Devastating Cyberattack in History (2018 - long but worthwhile) (This one has a really bad word, repeated three times. I wish people wouldn't do that, because outside of that it tells an important story really well.) If wired.com says that you have read all your articles for this month, try again with your browser in incognito mode, or try a different browser.
• Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet (2016) . (try this link if the other isn't working. . . )

Review vocab words we have not gotten to

Scareware/Hoax (Craig Shergold)

Zombies and botnet

Cyberwar - NotPetya Video

Stuxnet: Computer worm

Power Grid - video

Solarwinds/Orion

5 more bad viruses video