Question

Which of them is an example of grabbing email information?

(a) Cookie stealing

(b) Reverse engineering

(c) Port scanning

(d) Banner grabbing

I had been asked this question by my college director while I was bunking the class.

This intriguing question comes from Email Security in chapter Cyber Security Types of Cyber Security

Answer 1

Right answer is (a) Cookie stealing

The best explanation: There are three major ways of stealing email information. These are by stealing cookies, social engineering and password phishing technique. The remaining three (in the option) are not ways of stealing email information.