Question

_______ is an attempt to obtain sensitive information such as username, password and credit card details, etc. for malicious reasons, by posing as a trustworthy source in an email.
1. Cheating
2. Phishing
3. Peeping
4. Doctoring

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 2 : Phishing

The correct answer is Phishing.

• Phishing is the attempt to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details (and sometimes, indirectly, money), often for malicious reasons, by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.
• The first recorded use of the term "phishing" was in the cracking toolkit AOHell created by Koceilah Rekouche in 1995.
• Types of phishing:
  • Email phishing
  • Spear pishing
  • Whaling and CEO Fraud
  • Clone phishing
  • Voice phishing
  • SMS phishing
  • Calendar phishing
  • Page hijacking.

• Doctoring is to change something that should not be changed in order to gain an advantage.
• Peeping is to secretly look at something for a short time, usually through a hole.
• Cheating is to act in a dishonest or unfair way in order to get an advantage for yourself.