ECSA v10: EC-Council Certified Security Analyst v10

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VerifiedSocial Engineering Penetration Testing Methodology

ABC Technologies, a large financial company, hired a penetration tester to conduct physical penetration testing. On the first day of the assignment, the tester goes to the company posing as a repairman and begins checking trash bins to gather sensitive information.

What is the penetration tester attempting to do?

Explanation

Dumpster diving is a social-engineering technique in which someone searches discarded materials, such as trash-bin contents, for sensitive information.

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