What Is Phishing

question 105

Multiple Choice

What is phishing?

• 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.

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Definitions:

Conditional

A statement or proposition that asserts that one thing is true if another thing is true, typically formulated as "If P, then Q."

Negation

The contradiction or denial of something, or the opposite of a given statement or proposition.

Conjunction

In grammar, it refers to a part of speech that connects words, sentences, phrases, or clauses. In logic, it's a compound statement that is true if both of its component statements are true.

Truth Table

A diagram displaying the truth or falsity of a compound proposition as a function of the truth or falsity of its atomic statements and connectives.