Text messaging apps sometimes keep your old messages. That can be handy if you want to remember a conversation or share some information in a text with someone else. Cyber investigators look at texts and emails to find clues to solve a hacking mystery. What kind of words would you look for in texts or …
Social engineering is a cyberattack strategy that attempts to manipulate or deceive a user so that they give up their personal information. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is! No matter what your hobbies or interests are, scammers have developed many different techniques to get you to click on their link …
Have you ever played Keep Away or Monkey in the Middle? It’s a game where players try to throw a ball to each other while trying to keep one player from catching it. The player, or monkey, in the middle tries to intercept the ball as it’s being thrown from one person to another. Computer …
Sometimes the word “hacker” makes people think “criminal.” But the term “computer hacking” doesn’t mean breaking the law or hurting people. It just means changing code. ■ White Hat Hackers Schools and clubs hold “hackathons” where people get together and design or improve programs and apps. The hackathons are usually focused on meeting a need …
Some computer security systems use something called two factor authentications. That means that the person wanting to get into the account must have two things to prove they should have access. For example, if you’ve ever had to be picked up at school by a grown-up, you know about two-factor authentication. Most schools use two-factor …
To make a really strong password, you need to get creative. Here’s why: Hackers have programs that can run through dictionaries with lightning speed. They can identify millions of passwords in minutes. Then they use another program to try all these passwords to hack into people’s accounts. Hackers also have programs to search books, movie …
Every time you set up an account on your computer or phone, you have to create a password. An account is just a way for the website or app you are using to know who you are. If you have email, keep or turn in school work online, or play online video games, you have …
Brute force attack when an attacker tries many different passwords in hopes of guessing correctly Computer network a group of computers—or other digital devices—connected together insome way Cybersecurity the protection of digital devices, such as phones or computers, against attacks Dictionary attack when an attacker uses an existing list of words as potential passwords Digital …
Wouldn’t it be fun to have a secret language that only you and your friends knew? You’d have to create your own secret code. Cryptography is the process of writing and solving codes. When you take a message and turn it into a code, you encrypt it. When you turn the code back into a …
