Question

Collecting freely available information over the internet is an example of ____________ type of information gathering. (a) active (b) passive (c) active & passive (d) non-passive This question was posed to me by my school principal while I was bunking the class. The doubt is from Information Gathering Phase & Techniques topic in portion Phases of Security of Cyber Security Select the correct answer from above options Cyber Security questions and answers, Cyber Security questions pdf, Cyber Security question bank, Cyber Security questions and answers pdf, mcq on Cyber Security pdf,

Answer 1

Right answer is (b) passive For explanation I would say: Collecting freely available information over the internet is an example of passive information gathering technique. It uses archive sites, Google, domain name, people search, Nslookup etc.