220-1002 Question #353: Real Exam Question with Answer & Explanation

The correct answer is D: Dumpster diving. Dumpster diving is a physical social engineering technique where an attacker searches through an organization's or individual's trash to find discarded documents containing sensitive information such as passwords, account numbers, organizational charts, or personal data. Destroyi

Question

Which of the following types of social engineering attacks can be prevented by the destruction of documents with personal or sensitive information?

Options

AShoulder surfing
BPhishing
CTailgating
DDumpster diving

Explanation

Dumpster diving is a physical social engineering technique where an attacker searches through an organization's or individual's trash to find discarded documents containing sensitive information such as passwords, account numbers, organizational charts, or personal data. Destroying documents (shredding) directly eliminates the information before it can be recovered this way. Shoulder surfing involves watching someone enter data on a screen or keyboard - document destruction doesn't prevent this. Phishing uses deceptive emails, not physical documents. Tailgating involves physically following someone through a secure door, which is unrelated to document content.

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