GCSE – Lesson 3 – Automated cybercrime

Curriculum KS4 Unit Lesson

This lesson builds on the previous one, which was about non-automated cybercrime, to enable learners to distinguish between non-automated and automated cybercrime. Learners will begin to understand terms and techniques related to automated cybercrime and the vulnerabilities in a network or software that make companies or individuals vulnerable to such attacks.

Learning objectives

  • Describe automated forms of cyberattack
  • Analyse a real cyberattack and identify the network or software weaknesses that enabled it to happen

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