Question

What is phishing

Group of answer choices

A type of computer virus

"Spoofed" e-mails and fraudulent websites designed to fool recipients into divulging personal financial data such as credit card numbers, account usernames and passwords

An example of a strong password

None of the above

Answer 1

Question : What is Phishing ?

Answer : "Spoofed" emails and fraudulent websites designed to fool recipients to divulging personal financial data such as credit card numbers, account usernames and passwords.

Explanation : Phishing attack is an passive attack which is applied to steal the personal data, passwords etc.. This phishing attack is applied by attacker by sending spam emails which makes the user to click the links given in email. When user clicks that links ,then it is redirected to attacker's fraud website. The victim don't know that it is a fraud because attacker create the website in a way the victim should trust on it. So by this victim's entire information is accessed by the attacker. This is called as "Phishing attack".

Why other options(choices) are wrong :

A type of computer virus : It is wrong answer about phishing because it is not a computer virus, it is an attack that applied by attackers on target users to steal personal information.

An example of strong password :  It is also a wrong answer because it is not a example of strong password. A strong password means it contains One uppercase letter, one digit, one special character and it should 8 size(letters) of word. Phishing is not an example of strong password.

None of the above : It is also wrong because the answer is second option.