What Is Pretexting

question 85

Multiple Choice

What is pretexting?

• A) A form of social engineering in which one individual lies to obtain confidential data about another individual.
• B) A hacker looks through your trash to find personal information.
• C) Legitimate users who purposely or accidentally misuse their access to the environment and cause some kind of business-affecting incident.
• D) Malicious agents designed by spammers and other Internet attackers to farm email addresses off websites or deposit spyware on machines.

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Definitions:

Fill In

A phrase often used in education and testing to describe a task where the respondent must complete or provide missing information.

Combine

The act of merging or bringing things together to form a whole, often used in mathematics to refer to combining like terms or equations.

Simplify

To alter an expression into its most reduced or simplest form, making it easier to understand or solve.

Least Common Multiple

The smallest positive integer that is a multiple of two or more integers.