Chapter 1 Flashcards

1
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Spear phishing

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Is targeting certain employees

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2
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Whaling is

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Targeting high level employees or senior management

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3
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Vishing targets

A

Cell phones telephones and voip systems

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4
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Smishing

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Uses sms texting as the vector

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5
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Common phishing indicators are

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Vague salutations

Suspicious domains

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6
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(Bec) Business Email Compromise

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Is a form of attack that targets companies, who outsource conduct wire transfers and have suppliers abroad

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7
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Common BEC schemes

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Phony invoices and transfers
Fraud of the CEO or the C team
Email or webmail compromise

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8
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Pharming

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Is a blending of phishing and family that describes a type of cyber crime live phishing

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9
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Spam

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Is junk email

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10
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Comment spam

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A spammer uses software like scrape box or some other bot to blast your favorite sites comments

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11
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Phishing is ?

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A cyber attack that uses disguised email as a vector

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