Diving, Surfing, And Pharming Flashcards

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Tailgating, piggybacking

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Happens when access tokens or bated are being used in a single factor or multi factors authentication scheme for physical access to buildings rooms or certain high security areas such as data centers

It’s like if I have to scan a card to get in somewhere and I hold the door open for someone else so they don’t have to scan their card

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Dumpster diving

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Is an attack where the goal is to reclaim important information by searching through trash containers and dumpsters

They can find 
Credit card info 
Invoices and receipts 
Ip addressing 
Names of key employees 
Memos sticky notes
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Shoulder surfing

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An attack where the goal is to look over the shoulder of an individual as he or she enters password information

Beware of camera equipment should surfing
People maybe be looking from a distance with binoculars

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Watering hole

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Leverage a compromised web server in order to target groups or associations in social networks

Only members of the association are attacked while other traffic is untouched

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