Security+ Question of the Week: Increase in Email Hoaxes

An increase in email hoaxes to employees is likely to result in which of the following?

A. An increase in tech support calls and overloading of email servers and their related storage devices.
B. An increase in available bandwidth and reduction in lost productivity due to personal communications.
C. A violation of privacy and a need to make bit-stream backups of all storage devices.
D. An increase in tech support calls and users making detrimental modifications to their workstations.

Reveal Answer

The correct answer is D.

An increase in email hoaxes is likely to result in an increase in tech support calls and users making detrimental modifications to their workstations. An email hoax is usually crafted to trick victims into damaging their computer system.

It is not necessarily flooding if the hoaxes increase from 10 a week to 100 a week, however an increase to millions per day would be a flooding level event. An email hoax will not increase available bandwidth, improve productivity, violate privacy or require bit-stream image backups of media.

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