QUESTION 30 Which statement describes why social engineering is successful? O Pe

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QUESTION 30 Which statement describes why social engineering is successful? O People tend to forgo personal egos to better an organization. O People have a basic desire to withhold information for personal gain. O People have a basic desire to be helpful. People with a higher status may be coerced into providing information to those of lower status. QUESTION 31 Which statement explains why vishing is successful? O Vishing is successful because people desire to be helpful. O Vishing is successful because individuals normally seek to avoid confrontation and trouble. Vishing is successful because of the trust that individuals place in the telephone system. O Vishing is successful because people tend to trash information that might be used in a penetration attempt. QUESTION 32 Which statement identifies the best defense to prevent information from being obtained in a shoulder surfing attack? Small shields should be installed to block the view of a user's entry into a keypad. O The keypad system should be designed with "scrambled" numbers to help make shoulder surfing more difficult. Cameras should be installed over the keypad to record the area and the person entering the information. O Users should be aware of their surroundings and not allow individuals to get into a position from which they can observe what the user is QUESTION 33 Which strategy identifies one of the most common, least effective, and most dangerous security practices? Choosing poor passwords o Using encrypted signatures O Being too customer-focused o Hiding your employee badge QUESTION 34 Which term describes a type of phishing where individuals who are high up in an organization such as the corporate officers are targeted? O Whaling O Pharming DNS poisoning O Vishing

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Question 30:-

People have a basic desire to withhold information for a persiper gain.

Social engineering means manipulating the people to know the confidential information from them. Basically people desires to know that confidential information so that they can gain something.

Question 31:-

Vishing is successful because of the individuals place trust on telephone system.

Vishing means forging or eliciting the information from the individuals by tapping the phone lines or using voice Modulation techniques to know the information.

Question 32:-

Users should be aware of surroundings and not allow individuals to get into a position from which they can observe what the user is entering.

To prevent shoulder surfing either you have to stop working in crowded places or try to cover the screen without visible to the others.

Question 33:-

Choosing poor passwords

This is the most common thing we do also least effective because it is easy to guess and also most dangerous one.

Question 34:-

Whaling

This is the type of attack which targtst the higher official in the company to get the valuable information. This is also known as CEO or CFO fraud.

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