Passwords and Cyber Security Lab Network Security Memory Cognition

The perfect activity for your cyber security unit! An actual activity and NOT a stupid word find.

When I originally wrote this lab I had the students coming up with stimuli and surprisingly they entirely lacked creativity to the point that they did not know what to chose (or maybe not surprisingly).

In any case here are 140 password and cyber security assignments. Every single one is different….the best weapon against plagiarism, UNIQUENESS!

In this lab the students navigate to…

https://www.security.org/how-secure-is-my-password/

…and test a selection of passwords of various compositions to see how long it would take to crack the password. Try the link before you buy. I do not control this website.

The point it to try to make the students more aware of password length and complexity and it’s importance.

While of course there is no key, you could make one if you wished…every sheet shares the same stimuli for the “letters/numbers” section of the lab.

While I teach psychology. I make reference to passwords in my memory unit. I also show the students the most popular passwords from the Wikipedia page and muse on what it is about human psychology that causes so many of us to choose monkey…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_most_common_passwords

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