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Advanced Cybersecurity

Lesson 5.4 Additional Attacks

Description

In this lesson, students learn about additional common cyber attacks, such as zero day attacks, botnet attacks, rainbow table attacks and man-in-the-middle attacks. Students will explore famous cyber attacks (3ve, Mirai, and Stuxnet) and reflect on what we can learn from past attacks to strengthen present network security.


Objective

Students will be able to:

  • Identify common social engineering attacks: dumpster diving, phishing, and impersonation/tailgating
  • Explain how the following cyber attacks work: zero-day, man-in-the-middle, rainbow table, brute force, dictionary, zombie, spoofing