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Cylie is investigating a network breach at a state organization in Florida. She discovers that the intruders were able to gain access into the company firewalls by overloading them with IP packets…
The correct answer is A. Phreaking. Phreaking refers to the exploitation of telephone systems, including PBX (Private Branch Exchange) equipment. In this case, the intruders abused the PBX hard drives to store pirated music files - a classic phreaking activity where phone infrastructure is hijacked for…
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Cylie is investigating a network breach at a state organization in Florida. She discovers that the intruders were able to gain access into the company firewalls by overloading them with IP packets. Cylie then discovers through her investigation that the intruders hacked into the company phone system and used the hard drives on their PBX system to store shared music files. What would this attack on the company's PBX system be called?
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- APhreaking
- BSquatting
- CCrunching
- DPretexting
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- C5% (1)
- D5% (1)
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Phreaking refers to the exploitation of telephone systems, including PBX (Private Branch Exchange) equipment. In this case, the intruders abused the PBX hard drives to store pirated music files - a classic phreaking activity where phone infrastructure is hijacked for unauthorized purposes. Squatting refers to occupying unused IP space, Crunching (or blue boxing) is a historical technique to generate specific tones for free calls, and Pretexting involves creating a fabricated scenario to extract information from people.
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