Phishing with the coronavirus
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/coronavirus-china-computer-virus-face-mask-malware-emotet-a9314761.html I wouldn’t call it a more sophisticated attack, but it’s certainly using relevance to get clicks. Using fears around the latest health outbreak, or just fears in general, is one of the ways social engineering can try to increase success rates.
Hacking WhatsApp
https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/23/21068815/whatsapp-two-factor-authentication-how-to-security-privacy-hacking-pin-backup The above article is advising how to secure your WhatsApp account to not get hacked. Worth reading and worth following for all. It’s especially interesting for GCSE students as it’s using a particular exploit, and then exploiting the prevention measures. Cheeky, interesting and cool.
Logic gates game
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ViacheslavRud.Circuit This app is a good excuse to play a game on your phone and call it homework. Year 10 and above do work on logic gates, this app is a nice practise on various logic gates and how they work together.
Infrared camera hidden on Pixel 4
Biometric authentication is on the rise. Fingerprint sensors, iris recognition in airports, and face unlock on phones. Does it work if you just put a picture of the owner in front of the camera? It shouldn’t. Here’s a look at the technology hidden in a Pixel 4 which maps your face in 3D with an …. Read More
Meltdown and Spectre
Interesting video about some vulnerabilities. What GCSE students need to take from it is the carving up on the RAM for different programs, that’s part of the operating systems job in the system software lessons.
Hard drive disassembly
Want to take a hard drive apart and put it back together again? Want to take the data from a broken hard drive and put it into a working hard drive? Don’t. This video shows how an independent repair shop does it properly. A great look at the inside of a working disc. You can …. Read More
Domino Computer
Matt Parker made a computer out of dominoes. Yup. It’s really cool, he constructed logic gates (which he breaks down in a separate video) out of dominoes. It’s a simple calculator so takes two numbers and adds them together, but it’s impressive to see how it’s working.
Moonpig Hack
Customer details were hacked from Moonpig, this is a breakdown of what happened, but also important thoughts about what should be done when someone finds a vulnerability.
Logic Gates
These are the logic gates that we need for AQA GCSE 2019-2021. Next year will add XOR, but for now, these are all. My magnificent year 10 class take the credit for the graphic idea for the NOT gate, I take the credit for the others myself. Hopefully they’ll help you remember which one is …. Read More
Abstraction
Okay, so this covers knot theory which is nothing to do with anything we cover. However, what is important is abstraction. Jade goes through the steps of removing all the unnecessary steps. I wouldn’t expect you to solve this problem, but I would expect you to take another problem and get rid of all the …. Read More