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External Threats - Quiz

1. Which broad term describes the different ways an attacker deceives people into revealing sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and personal details?

Shoulder surfing
Phishing
Social engineering
Pharming

2. What is meant by 'pharming'?

An attack that intercepts the communication between two devices and may change the data before passing it on
An attack that floods a server with so much data that legitimate users cannot reach it
An attack that compromises a DNS server so that users are redirected to a fake website that looks genuine
An email that pretends to come from a trusted organisation and asks the user to click a link

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