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Chapter 8 - Safety and Security

This document provides revision material for an ICT IGCSE exam, including questions on strategies for safe social networking, the need for encryption, safety issues with computer use, health issues related to computer use, definitions of cyber threats like phishing and spam, and methods to reduce spam emails. Key points covered include blocking unwanted users, meeting in public, avoiding personal details online, encryption protecting data from unauthorized access, risks of electric shocks or trips from wires, and using spam filters or disposable emails to reduce junk messages.

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Chapter 8 - Safety and Security

This document provides revision material for an ICT IGCSE exam, including questions on strategies for safe social networking, the need for encryption, safety issues with computer use, health issues related to computer use, definitions of cyber threats like phishing and spam, and methods to reduce spam emails. Key points covered include blocking unwanted users, meeting in public, avoiding personal details online, encryption protecting data from unauthorized access, risks of electric shocks or trips from wires, and using spam filters or disposable emails to reduce junk messages.

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ICT IGCSE Theory – Revision Presentation

2015 – 2016 Questions (New Syllabus)

Describe four strategies that you could use to minimise the dangers of using social
networking sites to make new friends.

•
Chapter 8 - Safety and Security

Know how to block and report unwanted users,


• Never arrange to meet anyone alone
• Always tell an adult first when arranging to meet someone
• Always meet in a public place
• Avoid inappropriate disclosure of personal data/set privacy settings/Avoid giving
email address or phone number when chatting
• Avoid inappropriate disclosure of your own name/Avoid giving your full name
• Avoid giving your address
• Avoid giving your school name or displaying a picture in school uniform
• Do not display pictures taken at home/Do not display pictures taken of the school
with the name attached/Do not send pictures/videos of yourself to strangers
• Ensure that the person you are befriending has very secure privacy settings
• Check profiles before contacting people
• Verify person’s contact details with other trusted people/friends
ICT IGCSE Theory – Revision Presentation
2015 – 2016 Questions (New Syllabus)

Explain why encryption is needed when transmitting data.

• To cause data to be scrambled/encoded


Chapter 8 - Safety and Security

• Protects sensitive data…


• …from being understood if it falls in to the wrong hands
• Only user/computer with key can understand data

There are many safety issues associated with the use of computers. Describe three
of these issues.

• Electrocution by touching loose/bare wires/spilling liquids on electrical contacts


• Tripping and falling over trailing wires or cables
• Physical injury to feet/legs, etc. caused by heavy equipment falling
• Fire caused by too many plugs in multisocket and thereby
overheating/overheating of equipment
ICT IGCSE Theory – Revision Presentation
2015 – 2016 Questions (New Syllabus)

There are many health issues associated with the use of computers.
Name three of these health issues and for each one describe, in detail, a different
cause.
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• Headaches/eyestrain
• From staring at screen continuously

• RSI in fingers
• From continual typing/repetitive clicking of mouse

• RSI in wrists
• From repetitive clicking of mouse/continual typing

• Backache
• From sitting in same position all day
ICT IGCSE Theory – Revision Presentation
2015 – 2016 Questions (New Syllabus)

• The action of sending emails to fraudulently obtain another person’s bank


details is called Phishing
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• The action of illegally installing malicious code which redirects a person to a


fraudulent website with the purpose of obtaining that person’s bank details is
called Pharming

• Unsolicited bulk emails are called Spam

• The action of sending text messages to fraudulently obtain another person’s


bank details is called Smishing

• An internet protocol for delivering private messages using cryptography is called


https/SSL/TLS

• An attachment to an electronic message used to verify the identity of the sender


is called a digital certificate
ICT IGCSE Theory – Revision Presentation
2015 – 2016 Questions (New Syllabus)

Describe four methods you could use to minimise the likelihood of receiving spam
emails.
Chapter 8 - Safety and Security

• Use a spam filter/anti-spam software


• Do not reply to spam/suspicious messages
• Do not click on any links/attachments in a spam/suspicious message
• Use a disposable email address
• Use a complex email user name
• Do not give out your email address online/do not register using email on
untrusted websites/opt
• out of marketing
• Read messages as text
• Do not use your email address as an online username
• Changing to an email provider who filter spam

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