What Is a Phishing Expedition

question 26

Multiple Choice

What is a phishing expedition?

• A) Reroutes requests for legitimate websites to false websites.
• B) A technique to gain personal information for the purpose of identity theft, usually by means of fraudulent emails that look as though they came from legitimate businesses.
• C) A masquerading attack that combines spam with spoofing.
• D) A phishing expedition in which the emails are carefully designed to target a particular person or organization.

Understand the concept of allocative efficiency and how it is achieved in competitive markets.

Comprehend the implications of economic efficiency and external benefits for market outcomes.

Calculate measures of central tendency (mean, median, mode).

Understand the effects of skewed distributions on measures of central tendency.

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Definitions:

Probability

A measure quantifying the likelihood of certain events to occur within a given set.

Prior Probabilities

Probabilities that are assigned to events before any empirical data is taken into account, often based on theoretical considerations or past experience.

Multiplication Rule

A principle in probability theory used to find the probability of two independent events occurring simultaneously.

Posterior Probabilities

The revised probabilities of events or hypotheses after taking into account new evidence or information.