Ethical hacking

What is the purpose of hacking?
What do hackers hope to gain?
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Slide 1: Open question
ComputingLower Secondary (Key Stage 3)

This lesson contains 10 slides, with interactive quizzes, text slides and 1 video.

time-iconLesson duration is: 50 min

Items in this lesson

What is the purpose of hacking?
What do hackers hope to gain?

Slide 1 - Open question

Cybersecurity (Ethical hacking)
Conquer: Understand the basics of ethical 

Aspire: Explore hands-on cybersecurity challenges.

Slide 2 - Slide

What is Ethical Hacking?
There are 2 main kinds of hackers

  • Black hat hackers

  • White hat hackers 

What do you think the difference between them might be? 

Slide 3 - Slide

What is Ethical Hacking?
  • Black hat hackers work in the shadows to commit crimes, steal information/money or even your identity. 

  • White hat hackers work in the light to expose problems and help fix them. 

Slide 4 - Slide

White hat hackers
White hat hacks work to reveal problems inside systems to help prevent any people from misusing those problems for their own gain. 

Slide 5 - Slide

What is the primary goal of ethical hacking?
A
To steal information
B
To test security systems for problems
C
To create computer viruses
D
To spy on the government

Slide 6 - Quiz

What type of hacker follows the law and helps companies improve security?
A
White hat
B
Black hat
C
Shadow hacker
D
Light hacker

Slide 7 - Quiz

Another name for a white hat hacker is
A
Black hat hacker
B
Tester
C
White hat hacker
D
Grey-hat hacker

Slide 8 - Quiz

Slide 9 - Video

Hands-On Ethical Hacking 
You will now complete some tasks to test and develop you hacking skills 

Slide 10 - Slide