WBCHSE HS Cyber Security case studies
WBCHSE HS Cyber Security · Put your knowledge to work in context.
The WBCHSE Higher Secondary Cyber Security course is a vocational subject offered at the Class 11–12 stage under the West Bengal Council of Higher Education. It is designed for students who want a practical, employable grounding in information security alongside their general higher-secondary subjects, and it suits learners aiming at entry-level roles such as SOC analyst trainee, IT support with a security focus, or further study in cyber security and digital forensics. The WBCHSE HS Cyber Security case studies are 5 cases and about 3,863 words.
1The Locked Lab Before the Board Practical
Sunrise Higher Secondary School runs a 40-PC computer lab used for the Class XII cyber security practical. On Monday at 8:10 a.m., the IT teacher finds 22 PCs showing a file named READ ME.txt demanding ₹50,000 in cryptocurrency; desktop files and files on the mapped drive S: (attendance records) now end in .locked.
847 words, about 4 min2The Coaching Centre Wi-Fi That Ran Out of Addresses
Bright Path Coaching Centre has one consumer Wi-Fi router serving 60 students, 12 staff, four IP cameras and a small NAS holding fee records. There is a single SSID, 'BrightPath Guest', with one WPA2 password that has not changed in two years; WPS is enabled and the router firmware is from 2019.
723 words, about 4 min3The Quiz Portal That Trusted the URL
EduQuiz is a district science quiz portal built last year by a Class XII volunteer using PHP and MySQL on a ₹200-per-month shared host. About 5,000 students from 40 schools have accounts.
782 words, about 4 min4The Screenshot, the Laptop and the Committee Member
On Tuesday, a Class XI girl shows her class teacher a screenshot of Instagram direct messages that threaten to circulate an edited photo unless she sends money. The sending account has no profile photo and a generic username.
738 words, about 4 min5The Grocery Store Camera on the Public Internet
A neighbourhood grocery store installed six IP cameras and a DVR in 2018. The installer enabled remote viewing by forwarding ports 80, 554 and 8000 on the shop's broadband router to the DVR, left the DVR on admin/admin, and set the same password on the vendor's cloud viewing app, which has no multi-factor authentication.
773 words, about 4 min