A company's employees are not permitted to access company systems while traveling internationally. The company email system is configured to block logins based on geographic location, but some…

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Options

• AOutdated escalation attack
• BPrivilege escalation attack
• CVPN on the mobile device
• DUnrestricted email administrator accounts
• EChief use of UDP protocols
• FDisabled GPS on mobile devices

• A
  13% (5)
• B
  5% (2)
• C
  75% (30)
• D
  3% (1)
• E
  5% (2)

Explanation

The company's email geo-blocking works by checking the geographic location of the connecting device or IP address. Two conditions can bypass this: (C) A VPN on the mobile device tunnels all traffic through a server in an allowed region, making the connection appear to originate from an approved location - the geo-block sees a domestic IP and permits the sync. (F) Disabled GPS means the device cannot report its true physical location; if the system relies on device-reported GPS coordinates rather than IP geolocation, a device with GPS disabled may fall back to a default or unrecognized location that bypasses the block. Privilege escalation (B) is unrelated to geo-location bypass. Outdated escalation (A) is not a real attack category. UDP protocols (E) are irrelevant to email authentication/location checks. Unrestricted admin accounts (D) would not explain why standard employee devices continue syncing.

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