Week of October 24th to October 28th

 

Principles of Computer Technology, Fall 2022!

Monday:

• Introduce Pioneer project
• Slide show for security/malware/privacy
• 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)

Tuesday:

• 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 or not
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Wednesday:

• Group 3 must turn in current events on September 28th and October 26th

  :
  P1: Gagandeep, Ava, Jia, Siddharth, Gabriella
  P2: Catherine, Hannia, Mridula, Shailin, Suhani

   
  Remember to enter your topic here and be sure no one else from your section is already doing it.

• 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)

Thursday:

Homework for today is to read the following:New Fast-Spreading Virus takes Internet by Storm(1999)

• • • Slammed! An inside view of the worm that crashed the Internet in 15 minutes (2003)
    • The Facebook Virus Spreads: No Social Network is Safe (2008)
    • What is a Drive-By Download? (2013)
    • Hacker Lexicon: A Guide to Ransomware, the Scary Hack That’s on the Rise (2017)

  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

Friday:

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