Cyberpatriot / Cybersecurity

Current Threat – Mobile Malware Smartphones and tablets Perfect malware target Always on, always online Consumers don’t pay much attention to them Even if you do not have a widescreen display, you can still create and present 16:9 slides. PowerPoint’s Slide Show always resizes your slides to fit any screen.

Current Threat – Browser Exploit Cocktails of malware that hide in infected web pages Beware of sites that redirect you

Current threat – Banking Trojan Banking sites that look like the real site. Malware that waits for you to go to your real banking site and steals info

Current Threat – BIOS Infection BIOS – embedded startup software Not understood by most users Hard to find infection Runs before OS security software Clean by removing entire hard drive

Password - Checklist

Password - Checklist A1b2c3d4 R4c7x3E1f Which one is stronger? Why?

Password - Checklist Go!jets#1!! Which is strongest? Applesauce1212** I~malw4ysf|y!ng Which is strongest? Why?

Password - Checklist Create a password easy enough to remember without writing down but complex enough that no one would figure it out

Password - Checklist Favorite book: Phantom Tollbooth Ph@n+0m+0!!600+h

Passwords Unit 4 - CyberPatriot