An unauthorized practice of obtaining confidential information by manipulating people into disclosing sensitive data is referred to as:
a .Shoulder surfing
b. Privilege escalation
c. Social engineering
d. Penetration testing - ACCURATE ANSWERS c. Social engineering
Which term best describe...
An unauthorized practice of obtaining confidential information by
manipulating people into disclosing sensitive data is referred to as:
a .Shoulder surfing
b. Privilege escalation
c. Social engineering
d. Penetration testing - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ c. Social
engineering
Which term best describes disgruntled employees abusing legitimate
access to company's internal resources?
a. Script kiddies
b. Insider threat
c. Hacktivists
d. Organized crime - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ b. Insider threat
Malicious code activated by a specific event is known as:
a. Backdoor
, b. Logic bomb
c. Rootkit
d. Trojan horse - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ b. Logic bomb
The term "Evil twin" refers to a rogue Wireless Access Point (WAP) set
up for eavesdropping or stealing sensitive user data. Evil twin replaces
the legitimate access point and by advertising its own presence with the
same Service Set Identifier (SSID, a.k.a. network name) appears as a
legitimate access point to connecting hosts.
a. True
b. False - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ a. True
An optimal Wireless Access Point (WAP) antenna placement provides a
countermeasure against:
a. War chalking
b. Spoofing
c. War driving
d. Insider threat - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ c. War driving
A social engineering technique whereby attackers under disguise of
legitimate request attempt to gain access to confidential information they
shouldn't have access to is commonly referred to as:
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