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An employee of a payroll firm writes a program that deducts a few paise from every salary and credits the total to his own account. The amounts are too small for individuals to notice. This is known as:

This is a salami attack. Very small amounts are skimmed from many transactions so that no individual notices, yet the total becomes large. Email bombing, pharming and web jacking involve mailbox flooding, traffic redirection and website takeover respectively, not slicing small sums.

  1. ASalami attackCorrect
  2. BEmail bombing
  3. CPharming
  4. DWeb jacking

Explanation

A salami attack involves stealing tiny, unnoticeable amounts from many transactions that add up to a large sum. Email bombing floods a mailbox, pharming redirects users to fake sites, and web jacking takes control of a website. None of these match the facts.

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