FC0-U61 · Question #320
Which of the following types of attacks is often performed by looking surreptitiously at the keyboard or monitor of an employee's computer?
The correct answer is D. Shoulder surfing attack. Shoulder surfing is a social engineering technique where an attacker observes a user's screen or keyboard to steal sensitive information like passwords or PINs.
Question
Which of the following types of attacks is often performed by looking surreptitiously at the keyboard or monitor of an employee's computer?
Options
- AMan-in-the-middle attack
- BDenial-of-Service (DoS) attack
- CBuffer-overflow attack
- DShoulder surfing attack
How the community answered
(36 responses)- A6% (2)
- B3% (1)
- D92% (33)
Why each option
Shoulder surfing is a social engineering technique where an attacker observes a user's screen or keyboard to steal sensitive information like passwords or PINs.
A Man-in-the-middle attack involves an attacker intercepting communication between two parties without their knowledge, altering or eavesdropping on the exchanged data.
A Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack aims to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users by overwhelming it with traffic or exploiting vulnerabilities.
A buffer-overflow attack occurs when a program attempts to write data to a buffer that is larger than the buffer's allocated capacity, potentially overwriting adjacent memory and leading to arbitrary code execution.
Shoulder surfing is a social engineering attack where an attacker directly observes a person's private information, such as passwords, PINs, or data displayed on a screen, by looking over their shoulder.
Concept tested: Social engineering-Shoulder surfing
Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/compliance/regulatory/gdpr-data-breach-shoulder-surfing
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