Defend your school from hacker attacks!
You’ll see what hackers see, and learn how to beat them!
Scenario: A hacker has just launched their first phishing attack against your school! They’ve acquired the email addresses of all of the students. They figured all the students must want to see the solutions for the upcoming mathematics exam (which the hacker doesn’t have, but students don’t know that!). You’ve been hired as an extremely young - but extremely well paid - consultant and your first job is to analyse an email the hacker has sent:
Date: 13/09/2021
To: all-students@auchenmory-high.co.uk
From: free-exam-answers@gmail.comHey guys,
Make sure you don’t share this around but I found this site, if you put your phone number in you can totally see the exam answers for the mats exam next week haha! Just follow this link https://sqa.com/secret/exam-sols.pdf. THIS LINK EXPIRES IN 10 MINUTES
Task 1
You remember talking about some of these things in class last year, and you’ve been asked to do research on the following topics before acting, click on them below:
Task 2
Do you think the school can stop the attack from succeeding using the methods above? If not, can you think of a way in which they could?
Need some help?
Hint 1 - Firewalls
Hint 2 - Emails
Hint 3 - Teaching Users
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