🔐 Cyber Lab

Social engineering, password attacks, and adversary types - one page for the whole week.

Example: Annotated Phishing Emails

Write Your Own Phishing Email

Make it realistic. The point isn't to be mean - it's to prove you understand the techniques by using them deliberately.

Checklist: What Did You Include?

Check off every technique you deliberately built into your email above.

Your Email From Social Engineering: Indicators

Which Principle Does It Exploit?

Pick the ONE that's doing the most work in your email - it's fine if more than one applies a little.

Realistic Worst-Case Impact

If someone actually fell for this, what could they lose - and what could an attacker actually do with it?

Spot the Principle

Get one wrong, and it starts over from question 1 - so take your time.

One Day's Login Log

This is one real-looking day of activity - mostly normal, with a few genuine attacks mixed in. Scan it, then answer the questions below.

Time User IP Address Result

Questions About This Log

Click an answer to check it, then move to the next one.

Build a Password Policy

Check off the requirements you'd enforce.

Minimum length:

Other requirements:

Now write a password that meets everything you checked:

⚠️ Never type a REAL password you actually use, anywhere - here or anywhere else online. Make something up for this exercise.

Case Studies

For each system below, think about its login security - what's actually weak, and who does that weakness put at risk: the user, or the company?

Log Into the Cyber Range

Today is simple: get your CYBER.ORG Range access working for the first time.

  1. Follow along as I walk through the login steps together as a class.
  2. Log into your CYBER.ORG Range account.
  3. Take a screenshot showing you're actually in.
  4. Submit that screenshot to Google Classroom.

Status Report

Generates a one-page summary of everything you've done this week, including the actual text you wrote - print it or save as PDF to turn in.