Social engineering awareness in Intro to Computing - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

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easy

Complete the code to print a warning message about social engineering.

Intro to Computing

print("Beware of [1] attempts to steal your information!")

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Ahardware

Bsocial engineering

Cnetwork

Dsoftware

Attempts:

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💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Choosing technical terms like 'network' or 'hardware' instead of 'social engineering'.

The phrase 'social engineering' correctly completes the warning message about attempts to steal information by tricking people.

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medium

Complete the code to check if a message is a phishing attempt.

Intro to Computing

if 'urgent' in message and '[1]' in message:
    print('Possible phishing attempt detected')

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Apassword

Battachment

Clink

Dusername

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Choosing 'password' or 'attachment' which are less common in this context.

The word 'link' is often used in phishing messages to trick users into clicking malicious URLs.

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hard

Fix the error in the code that identifies a social engineering keyword.

Intro to Computing

keywords = ['password', 'urgent', 'account']
if '[1]' in keywords:
    print('Warning: social engineering keyword found')

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Aurgent

Blink

Cemail

Dattachment

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Choosing words not in the list like 'link' or 'email'.

The word 'urgent' is in the keywords list and is a common social engineering keyword.

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hard

Fill both blanks to create a dictionary of social engineering tactics and their descriptions.

Intro to Computing

tactics = {
    'phishing': '[1]',
    'pretexting': '[2]'
}

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Asending fake emails to steal info

Bpretending to be someone else to get info

Chacking into computers

Dinstalling antivirus software

Attempts:

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💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Mixing up the descriptions or choosing unrelated options like 'hacking'.

'Phishing' means sending fake emails to steal information, and 'pretexting' means pretending to be someone else to get information.

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hard

Fill all three blanks to filter a list of messages containing social engineering keywords.

Intro to Computing

filtered = [msg for msg in messages if '[1]' in msg or '[2]' in msg or '[3]' in msg]

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Aurgent

Bpassword

Caccount

Dnetwork

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Including 'network' which is not a typical social engineering keyword here.

The keywords 'urgent', 'password', and 'account' are common in social engineering messages and used to filter them.