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Question 23

An organisation's network users face the risk of a pharming cyber-attack.

Identify the description of pharming.

A

Intercepting data packets as they travel across a local area network.

B

Sending fraudulent emails that appear to be from a trusted company to trick users into revealing login details.

C

Redirecting a user from a genuine website to a fake website by altering DNS database records or host files.

D

Flooding a web server with useless traffic to crash the system and make it unavailable.

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Network security Questions

  1. IGCSE
  2. /Computer Science
  3. /Network security

25 exam-style questions on Edexcel IGCSE Computer Science Network security. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.

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