Which of the following is the act of obtaining a password or other confidential information from a person within an organization by using unauthorized means such as feigning an emergency situation?

The term social engineering is used to describe a wide range of malevolent behaviours. 

Key Points

• Social engineering is an attack method that mainly relies on human contact and frequently entails influencing people into breaking regular security processes and best practices.
• Attacks by social engineers may involve one or more steps.
• Malicious hackers pose as reliable people or information sources while using social engineering techniques to mask their true identity and objectives.
• The goal is to persuade, deceive, or manipulate users into disclosing private information or access. 

Thus, Social engineering is the act of obtaining a password or other confidential information from a person within an organization by using unauthorized means such as feigning an emergency situation. 

Additional Information

• Trojan viruses sneak onto your computer by impersonating legitimate, functional programmes.
• Password cracking is the process of finding a lost or forgotten password for a computer or network resource. 
• In a stepping-stone attack, an attacker leverages a network of hosts as relay computers and logs in to these hosts remotely.