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Which type of social engineering attack utilizes voice messaging to conduct the attack? Vishing is basically a variation of phishing that uses voice communication technology to obtain the information the attacker is seeking.
Social engineering attacks work well because the individual who is the target of the attack/attempt? Often either genuinely wants to help or is trying to avoid a confrontation, depending on the attacker's specific attack.
From a security standpoint, why should an organization consider a policy of mandatory vacations? To ensure that employees are not involved in illicit activity that they are attempting to hide.
Select all of the following that are examples of personally indentifiable information: Name, ID Number, License Plate Number, Telephone Number, Street Address
Which type of social engineering attack utilizes voice messaging to conduct the attack? Vishing is basically a variation of phishing that uses voice communication technology to obtain the information the attacker is seeking.
Which type of social engineering attack utilizes voice messaging to conduct the attack? Vishing is basically a variation of phishing that uses voice communication technology to obtain the information the attacker is seeking.
Social engineering attacks work well because the individual who is the target of the attack/attempt? Often either genuinely wants to help or is trying to avoid a confrontation, depending on the attacker's specific attack.
From a security standpoint, why should an organization consider a policy of mandatory vacations? To ensure that employees are not involved in illicit activity that they are attempting to hide.
Select all of the following that are examples of personally indentifiable information: Name, ID Number, License Plate Number, Telephone Number, Street Address
A hoax can still be a security concern because? It can result in a user performing some action that could lead to a compromise of that might adversley affect the system or network.
How should CD's and DVD's be disposed of? By shredding using a paper shredder designed also to shred CD's and DVD's.
What type of attack consists of looking through an individual's or organization's trash for sensitive information? Dumpster Diving.
What type of attack can involve an attacker setting up a camera to record the entries individuals make on keypads used for access control? This is an example of a shoulder surfing method.
Which of the following should be included in a password policy? An explanation on how complex the password should be. The length of time the password will be valid before it expires. A description of how passwords should be distributed and protected.
What is the best method of preventing successful phishing attacks? A viable user training and awareness program.
What type of attack uses e-mails with a convincing story to encourage users to provide account or other sensitive information? Phishing,
The reason for providing a group access control policy is? It provides an easy mechanism to identify common user restrictions for members of the group. Individual profiles for each user don't have to be created but instead each is identified as a member of the group with its associated group profile policy
Which of the following is a high level, broad statement of what the organization wants to accomplish? Policy.
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