An attacker telephones a company's payroll department, posing as a senior auditor from the firm's external accountancy agency. The attacker fabricates an urgent discrepancy in the pension contributions database to persuade the employee to read out sensitive employee names, dates of birth, and bank account details.
Which social engineering threat is best represented by this scenario?
Blagging
Pharming
Phishing
Shouldering
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.