9.3 Essential Knowledge Assessment

What is a digital footprint?

• A trail of data left behind by your online activity

• A record of your internet history

• Information that can be found if you are searched online

• A term that describes how active you are online

Why does a digital footprint have a monetary value? (Select all that apply)

• Companies will buy the information to learn about your interest to better know what to sell to you

• Companies will buy the information to target you with specific ads

• Companies will buy this information to keep more accurate records of its customers

• Companies will buy the information to keep track of your activity

• Companies will buy the information so they can more easily contact you

What is the Data Protection Act?

• A sets of rules on how data should be collected about individuals and organisations

• A set of standard principles for protecting a company's data online

• A law designed to protect people's personal information and ensure it is handled responsibly by organisations

• A law that explains how a persons digital footprint should be used and stored

Select all the principles that are part of the Data Protection Act

• Personal data must be fairly and lawfully processed

• Personal data must be kept securely for an indefinite amount of time

• Personal data must be obtained for specified and lawful purposes

• Personal data must be accurate and up to data

• Personal data must be purposeful and complete

There are _____ principles in the Data Protection Act

Hacking is the act of gaining ​ (a)   access to ​ (b)   or a ​ (c)   .

• unauthorised
• data
• computer system
• information
• authorised

Social engineering is a method of hacking that targets ​ (a)   instead of ​ (b)   in ​ (c)   .

• people
• software
• weaknesses
• hardware
• phishing
• computers
• attacking

Match the descriptions with the correct social engineering technique:

• Watching someone enter their information

• Phishing

• Inventing a story to get information

• Shouldering

• Deceptive emails with fake links

• Blagging

Which of these options help you to spot a phishing email?

• It has links in it

• It contains spelling / grammar mistakes

• The link URL or email address don't match who the email is from

• You weren't expecting the email

Define malware:

• Bad software like viruses that are used to steal money

• Software used by hackers and criminals

• Software that can disrupt how a computer operates.

• Malicious software designed to gain access to your system with malicious intent