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Question 17

Social engineering is a collection of techniques used by malicious actors to manipulate individuals into performing actions or releasing confidential information.

Describe each of the following social engineering techniques:

a.

Spear phishing

[1]
b.

Shoulder surfing

[1]
c.

Baiting

[1]
Markscheme

Cyber security threats Questions

  1. GCSE
  2. /Computer Science
  3. /Cyber security threats

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.

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