When an Attacker Presents a Program or Himself as Someone

question 25

Multiple Choice

 When an attacker presents a program or himself as someone else to obtain private information and pretends to be a legitimate website, network, FTP site, or person in a chat session, what type of attack is occurring?

• A) rootkit
• B) zombie
• C) brute-force
• D) man-in-the-middle

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