Dimitri Ivanov is an accountant with PwC. The firm has a very strict policy of requiring all users to change their passwords every sixty days. In early March, Dimitri received an e-mail claiming that there had been an error updating his password and that provided a link to a website with instructions for re-updating his password. Something about the e-mail made Dimitri suspicious, so he called PwC’s information technology department and found that the e-mail was fictitious. The e-mail was an example of
A. social engineering.
B. piggybacking.
C. spamming.
D. phishing.
Answer:D
Dimitri Ivanov is an accountant with PwC. The firm has a very strict policy of requiring all users to change their passwords every sixty days. In early March, Dimitri received an e-mail claiming that there had been an error updating his password and that provided a link to a website with instructions for re-updating his password. Something about the e-mail made Dimitri suspicious, so he called PwC’s information technology department and found that the e-mail was fictitious. The e-mail was an example of
A. social engineering. B. piggybacking. C. spamming. D. phishing.