What Is the Practice of Posing as Other Individuals in an Effort

question 51

Multiple Choice

What is the practice of posing as other individuals in an effort to obtain passwords and other privileged information?

• A)Social compilation
• B)Social invasion
• C)Social tampering
• D)Social engineering

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