Question

Which of the following is the technique used to look for information in trash or around dustbin container? (a) Pretexting (b) Baiting (c) Quid Pro Quo (d) Dumpster diving The question was posed to me in unit test. This is a very interesting question from Social Engineering and Physical Hacking in chapter Cyber 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

The correct answer is (d) Dumpster diving The best I can explain: In the technology world, where information about a person seems everywhere; dumpster diving is the name of the technique where the attacker looks for information in dustbins and trashes. For example, after withdrawing money from ATM, the user usually throw the receipt in which the total amount and account details are mentioned. These type of information becomes helpful to a hacker, for which they use dumpster diving.