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What are phishing attacks?(a) Users are forced to use a second server which causes the attack(b) Users are forced to divert to a fake site where the attack takes place(c) Users are fooled by similar GUI and data is extracted from them.(d) None of the mentionedI had been asked this question in a national level competition.The origin of the question is Application Security in chapter Application Design and Development of RDBMS

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Correct option is (c) USERS are fooled by similar GUI and data is extracted from them.

For EXPLANATION: Phishing attacks are those attacks in which users are fooled by similar GUI and data is extracted from them. The FAKE site is then used to OBTAIN the data from the user.



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