AC9TDI8P13
Year 7
Technologies
AC9TDI8P13 – Year 7 Technologies: Privacy and security
Strand
Processes and production skills
Substrand
Privacy and security
This Content Descriptor from Year 7 Technologies provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Content Description
explain how multi-factor authentication protects an account when the password is compromised and identify phishing and other cyber security threats
Elaborations
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1
explaining how multi-factor authentication prevents unauthorised access by prompting the account owner for a token or single-use password, for example demonstrating how a funds transfer from their bank account requires not only logging in, but provision of a one-time password received via SMS
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2
identifying the common techniques used in phishing scams to identify and exploit susceptible users, for example using an email address from an unofficial domain when pretending to be an online retailer, or including grammatical errors to help filter out users who are more likely to detect the scam
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