Question

Wally Hewitt is an accountant with a large accounting firm. The firm has a very strict policy of requiring all users to change their passwords every sixty days. In early March, Wally received an email from the firm that explained that there had been an error updating his password and that provided a link to a Web site with instructions for re-entering his password. Something about the email made Wally suspicious, so he called the firm's information technology department and found that the email was fictitious. The email was an example of

a. social engineering.
b. phishing.
c. piggybacking.
d. spamming

Answer 1

The correct answer to the following question is Option b (Phishing).

Step-by-step explanation:

• Phishing seems to be a type of fraud or discrimination in which an intruder barely qualifies in emails or certain forms of communication as nothing more than a respectable individual or entity.
• The offender is using emails to spread malicious content including dependencies that would execute several features such as deleting user login details.

The other three choices have no relation with the specified scenario. So, that email was indeed a phishing proof.