Social Engineering Wrong Answers

1. Social ______ is the concept of using relationships, persuasion, and body language to steal some otherwise secretive/personal information or persuade someone to perform some action.

• construction

• engineering

• reconnaissance

• distortion

2. ______ is meant to exploit a bias of obedience and compliance.

• Authority

• Intimidation

• Fear mongering

• Reconnaissance

3. ______ is meant to exploit a bias of fear.

• Authority

• Intimidation

• Fear mongering

• Reconnaissance

4. What is another term for social proof?

• Sample

• Survey

• Consensus

• All of the above

5. What bias does social proof exploit?

• Default usernames

• Common passwords

• Political ideology

• Following a crowd

6. ______ exploits a bias of the desire to be exclusive.

• FOMO

• FIRE

• Scarcity

• Uniqueness

7. ______ exploits a bias of speedy action without careful thought.

• Carelessness

• Urgency

• Obliviousness

• Restriction

8. ______ is meant to exploit a bias of common thought.

• Familiarity

• Ideology

• Conformity

• Unconsciousness

9. Trust exploits a bias of ______.

• honor

• relationship

• thought

• commonality