Under attack

Computing

You and your data

Social engineering

Script kiddies

Rise of the bots

There's no place like 127.0.0.1

Cybersecurity

Which UK law gives you the right to access the data an organisation stores on you?

When data has been processed and is meaningful, which of these has it become?

A malicious attempt to disrupt a server or network by flooding it with internet traffic

Hacking a system by taking control of someone else's computer

Methods used by cybercriminals to deceive individuals into handing over information

Using the computer of someone who has accidentally left themselves logged on

You receive an email from an unknown sender asking for money. The sender wants you to respond to the email. There are no hyperlinks in the email, but it includes unusual use of English and there are a number of spelling mistakes. What type of social engineering attempt is this?

A form of identity theft conducted online

An attack that makes multiple attempts to guess a username and password

Attackers create an online quiz to produce a name; the answers to the quiz find out key pieces of information that can help them to answer the security questions protecting people's accounts

Software used to randomly create accounts that post to social media

Which of the following describes a name generator attack?

‘Gaining unauthorised access to or control of a computer system’ is a definition of which type of cybercrime?

What is the term for people who are paid to legally hack into computer systems with the sole purpose of helping a company identify weaknesses in their system?

To use a single computer to flood a network or server with internet traffic in order to disrupt service

To use a single computer to infiltrate a network in order to steal data or to plant a virus

To use multiple computers to flood a network or server with internet traffic in order to disrupt service

To use multiple computers to infiltrate a network in order to steal data or to plant a virus

Which of the following passwords would be the best defence against a brute force attack?

Which one of the following UK laws would a DDoS attack violate?

Which three of the following are types of malware?

Malicious software that disguises itself as something else

Malicious software that monitors every keystroke the user makes

Malicious software that uses network bandwidth to deliberately disrupt the speed of the network

What is the definition of a computer virus?

Which of the following is a method of verifying that a login attempt has been made by the account owner?

Software that checks incoming and outgoing traffic on a network to check for malicious code is known as what?

A firewall checks incoming and outgoing network traffic

Which of the following would be the most appropriate software to identify when you system becomes infected with worms, spyware and other forms of computer viruses?

Which of the following attempts to check if you are a human user and not a malicious bot.

Which of the following would be the correct term for a large collection of malware-infected devices (zombies) used to perform an attack or to exploit known weaknesses in a system?

This lesson will be removed by the end of the Spring Term 2026.

Under attack

Lesson outcome

This lesson will be removed by the end of the Spring Term 2026.