Author Question: Stuart works for a financial brokerage. His job involves handling sensitive client informationsuch ... (Read 39 times)

RYAN BANYAN · **on:** Jul 7, 2018

Stuart works for a financial brokerage. His job involves handling sensitive client informationsuch as financial details. Stuart illegally transfers details of some clients from his officecomputer to his personal email ID, to misuse later.

With reference to this situation, Stuart isguilty of ________.A) exfiltrating
B) carding
C) hardening
D) pretexting

Question 2

Explain how data breach occurs with an example.

What will be an ideal response?

kbennett34 · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 7, 2018

Answer to Question 1

A

Answer to Question 2

Hackers are continually developing new tools and techniques that enable them to steal
more data. They experiment with new attack vectors, or ways of attacking a target. In the data
breach that occurred at Target Corporation in late 2013, attackers first purchased malware
designed specifically for the attacks they planned to carry out. They then used spear phishing, or
a targeted phishing attack, to infect a Target third party vendor's system and gather keystrokes,
login credentials, and screenshots from the vendor's users. The attackers used this information to
gain access into Target's internal network. Once inside Target's network, the attackers
compromised an internal Windows file server. From this server, the attackers used malware
named Trojan.POSRAM to extract customer data from point-of-sale (POS) terminals. Customer
data was continuously sent from the POS terminals to an extraction server within Target's
network. It was then funneled out of Target's network to drop servers in Russia, Brazil, and
Miami. From there, the data was collected and sold on the black market.