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GISF · Question #326

You are the Network Administrator for a bank. You discover that someone has logged in with a user account access, but then used various techniques to obtain access to other user accounts. What is…

The correct answer is D. Horizontal Privilege Escalation. See the full explanation below for the reasoning.

Question

You are the Network Administrator for a bank. You discover that someone has logged in with a user account access, but then used various techniques to obtain access to other user accounts. What is this called?

Options

  • AVertical Privilege Escalation
  • BSession Hijacking
  • CAccount hijacking
  • DHorizontal Privilege Escalation

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(44 responses)
  • A
    5% (2)
  • B
    2% (1)
  • C
    9% (4)
  • D
    84% (37)

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