COMPUTER ETHICS AND SECURITY
TYPES OF THREATS AND ATTACKS
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Pretexting
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Baiting
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Quid pro quo
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Phishing. As one of the most popular social engineering attack types, phishing scams are email and text message campaigns aimed at creating a sense of urgency, curiosity or fear in victims.
Detailed explanation-2: -Vishing. Also known as voice phishing, vishing involves the use of social engineering over the phone to gather financial or personal information from the target.
Detailed explanation-3: -Pretexting Pretexting is a fairly sophisticated type of social engineering attack in which a scammer creates a pretext or fabricated scenario-pretending to be an IRS auditor, for example-to con someone into providing sensitive personal or financial information, such as their social security number.
Detailed explanation-4: -A social engineering technique to get a user’s phone number allows attackers to have a phone conversation with their potential victims to establish a pretext for their social engineering attack. The attacker simply sends an email to the intended target asking for that person’s phone number.