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CBSE Class 12 Informatics Practices Question 12 of 177

Societal Impacts — Question 12

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Question 12

Assertion. Phishing is fraudulently taking a user to an authentic looking site and stealing user information.

Reason. Pharming is fraudulently redirecting a website's traffic to another to steal information.

  1. Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
  2. Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A.
  3. A is true but R is false.
  4. A is false but R is true.
Answer

Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A.

Explanation
Phishing is the criminally fraudulent process of taking a user to an authentic looking site and attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, credit card information etc. While pharming is fraudulently redirecting a website's traffic to bogus site without user's knowledge or consent to steal information.