Which of the Following Best Represents a Method a Social

question 51

Multiple Choice

Which of the following best represents a method a social engineer might use to infiltrate a system?

• A) Baiting someone to add, deny, or clarify information that can help an attacker
• B) Posting rumors about an individual on a popular social networking site
• C) Making prank calls to individuals
• D) Stealing an individual's credit card information
• E) Flooding an individual's mailbox with junkmail

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Definitions:

Linguistic Relativity

A hypothesis suggesting that the structure of a language influences its speakers' world view or cognition, often referred to as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.

Surface Structure

In linguistics, it refers to the superficial syntactic structure of a sentence that can be directly observed in spoken or written language, contrasted with deep structure which is the underlying meaning.

Deep Structure

In linguistics, a term denoting the underlying syntactic structure or meaning of a sentence.

Mental Representation

Internal cognitive symbols that represent external reality or abstract concepts, allowing us to think about the world.