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Select the appropriate attack from each drop down list to label the corresponding…

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Select the appropriate attack from each drop down list to label the corresponding illustrated attack
Instructions: Attacks may only be used once, and will disappear from drop down list if selected.
When you have completed the simulation, please select the Done button to submit.

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Answer:

Explanation:
1: Spear phishing is an e-mail spoofing fraud attempt that targets a specific organization, seeking
unauthorized access to confidential data. As with the e-mail messages used in regular phishing
expeditions, spear phishing messages appear to come from a trusted source. Phishing messages usually
appear to come from a large and well-known company or Web site with a broad membership base, such
as eBay or PayPal. In the case of spear phishing, however, the apparent source of the e-mail is likely to be
an individual within the recipient’s own company and generally someone in a position of authority.
2: The Hoax in this question is designed to make people believe that the fake AV (anti-virus) software is
genuine.3: Vishing is the act of using the telephone in an attempt to scam the user into surrendering private
information that will be used for identity theft. The scammer usually pretends to be a legitimate business,
and fools the victim into thinking he or she will profit.
4: Phishing is the act of sending an email to a user falsely claiming to be an established legitimate
enterprise in an attempt to scam the user into surrendering private information that will be used for
identity theft.
Phishing email will direct the user to visit a website where they are asked to update personal information,
such as a password, credit card, social security, or bank account numbers, that the legitimate organization
already has. The website, however, is bogus and set up only to steal the information the user enters on
the page.
5: Similar in nature to e-mail phishing, pharming seeks to obtain personal or private (usually financial
related) information through domain spoofing. Rather than being spammed with malicious and
mischievous e-mail requests for you to visit spoof Web sites which appear legitimate, pharming ‘poisons’
a DNS server by infusing false information into the DNS server, resulting in a user’s request being
redirected elsewhere. Your browser, however will show you are at the correct Web site, which makes
pharming a bit more serious and more difficult to detect. Phishing attempts to scam people one at a time
with an e-mail while pharming allows the scammers to target large groups of people at one time through
domain spoofing.

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