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Question:

Your company has produced some new security directives. One of these new directives is that all documents must be shredded before being thrown out. Which of the following types of attack is this attempting to prevent?

A Dumpster diving.
explanation

Dumpster diving is the process of going through the trash to find documents. Shredding documents will help to prevent dumpster diving, but truly dedicated dumpster divers can reassemble even well-shredded documents, leading some organizations to burn their most sensitive documents after they have been shredded. Phishing is often done via email or phone and is an attempt to elicit information or convince a user to click a link or open an attachment. Shoulder surfing is literally looking over someone’s shoulder. In the on-path (man-in-the-middle) attack, the attacker is between the client and the server, and to either end, the attacker appears like the legitimate other ends.

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