How Are Phishing Attacks Used for Identity Theft

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Essay

How are phishing attacks used for identity theft?

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Definitions:

Beta

A benchmark for the changeability, or structural risk, found in a security or an assemblage of investments measured against the overall market.

Portfolio Variance

A measure used in finance to quantify the volatility from the mean return of a portfolio, indicating the spread of its returns.

Cyclical Stock

A stock whose price is affected by macroeconomic changes in the overall economy and tends to rise and fall with the business cycle.

Countercyclical Stock

A stock whose performance is inversely related to the economy's performance, typically doing well during economic downturns.