Keys to securityComputer Literacy – lesson 2

Warming up

Go to http://bit.ly/1fptDBR

What is the relation between

Mastermind and Passwords?

How do hackers find out your passwords?

Stealing

Social Engineering

Brute force hacking

Dictionary attacks

Back to mastermind

How can you make the game harder?

But how does that translate to

passwords?

Longer paswords

Mixing letters, numbers and symbols

Let’s try some passwords

http://bit.ly/18GwEZH

But wait a minute

A good password is normally hard to remember.

Check this website - http://bit.ly/KO7t1W

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~helpext/security/choosing_passwords.html

Choosing a hard-to-guess, but easy-to-remember password is important!

Kevin Mitnick

Get to work

Check this website - http://bit.ly/KO7t1W

Summarize on your blog one strategy given on the website and give a

suggestion of a possible good password, according to this strategy.

If your blog is NOT shared between Science and computer literacy, go to your

edublog’s dashboard and go to My Class > Join a Class

If your blog is shared between Science and computer literacy, create a

category “computer literacy” for your post, and email your blog’s URL to

mmuller@chapelschool.com