An employee at a local authority receives an urgent phone call from an individual claiming to be a senior database administrator. The caller insists that the employee must immediately verify their login credentials over the phone to prevent a critical system crash.
Explain why this scenario is classified as a social engineering attack, defining the fundamental mechanism on which social engineering relies.
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.