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Security+ Domain 1.2

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Social engineering
hackers use their social skills to trick people into revealing access credentials or other valuable information
spear phishing
a phishing expedition in which the emails are carefully designed to target a particular person or organization
Whaling
targeted to senior business executives and government leaders
vishing (voice phishing)
Social engineering activity over the telephone system, most often using features facilitated by VoIP, to gain unauthorized access to sensitive data.
Tailgating
The act of unauthorized individuals entering a restricted-access building by following an authorized user.
impersonation
an act of pretending to be someone with greater access for the purpose of fraud or theft
Replay Attack
A type of network attack where an attacker
captures network traffic and stores it for
retransmission at a later time to gain
unauthorized access to a network.
IV (Initialization Vector)
A 24-bit value used in WEP that changes each time a packet is encrypted.
Evil Twin Attack
a rogue wireless access posing as a legitimate wireless service provider to intercept information that users transmit
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