An employee at a logistics company receives an urgent telephone call from someone claiming to be a senior network engineer from their external internet service provider. The caller claims that a critical security patch must be applied to the local gateway immediately and persuades the employee to reveal the company's primary administrator password to 'validate the connection'.
Identify the specific type of social engineering attack illustrated by this scenario.
23 exam-style questions on AQA GCSE Computer Science Cyber security threats, covering Social engineering and Malicious code (malware). Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.