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QUESTION 5 

You have been asked to create a spear phishing email that will entice the faculty and staff of the Trent University Forensics Department into visiting your website, which is configured to automatically install malware on their computers. 

What planning would you do prior to sending the email? 

Write the contents of the email. 

Why do you think that this would be an effective phishing attack? 

QUESTION 6

Recently we have seen many large corporations boycott advertising on Facebook. Why are they doing this?

Do you feel this is right and justifiable?

What can Facebook do to satisfy the advertizers?

Answer 1

Question 5

=> Phishing scams are one of the most common ways hackers gain access to sensitive or confidential information.

=> First of do mot use any recognized mails but make use of eye catching Subjects to grab the attention of the victim.

=> To work, phishing campaigns must trick the email recipient into believing that the message is from a reputable company.

=> Lotteries and jackpots are one of the most used phishing emails you can use one the two to lure the victims into clicking the mail.

=> Make use of Big branded company names with one or two words misspelt it helps you to gain the trust of the victim and most importantly to lure him.

=> Make use of catchy headlines and Bug discounts using this strategy lures the victim into the trap more often than not.

=> As with the subject line, the body copy of a phishing email is typically employs urgent language designed to encourage the reader to act without thinking.

One of the Phishing mails

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Question - 6

=> A boycott of advertisers on social media is gaining momentum, and Facebook is the primary target.

=> Marketers are expressing unease with how it handles misinformation and hate speech, including its permissive approach

Reasons ::

=> Conspiracy theories and misinformation about Floyd's death spread on social networks, including false claims that Hungarian-American billionaire George Soros orchestrated the protests.

=> Some of this misinformation popped up in private Facebook groups that are harder to moderate.

=> Facebook has a mostly hands-off approach to speech from politicians. The company faced criticism for not removing a protest-related post by President Donald Trump that advocacy groups and even the company's own employees said could incite violence.

How to satisfy the Customers ::

=> Participating in a regular audit by an independent third-party about identity-based misinformation and hate. The results would be published online.

=> Notifying businesses if their ads are shown next to content Facebook pulled down that violated its rules and give them a refund.

=> Creating a way to automatically flag hateful content in private groups for human review.