Question

Phishing is the method of:(A) Using email or other Internet applications to deceive people into disclosing valuable personal information.(B) Convincing a person to divulge personal information over the telephone.(C) Hacking into another's computer files to access personal information. (D) Hiring a con artist to steal personal information from a person.

Answer 1

(A) Using email or other Internet applications to deceive people into disclosing valuable personal information.

Step-by-step explanation:

Phishing:-It is a from of social engineering attack to steal users credentials such as username ,passwords,ATM card details,bank account details .There are lot of phishing web sites and email present over the internet.Though search engines and mail services uses some anti phishing methods but still attackers find some way to counter that.