The school offers wireless facility (wifi) to the Computer Science students of Class XI. For communication, the network security staff of

Q. The school offers wireless facility (wifi) to the Computer Science students of Class XI. For communication, the network security staff of the school have a registered URL schoolwifi.edu. On 17 September 2017, the following email was mass distributed to all the Computer Science students of Class XI. The email claimed that the password of the students was about to expire. Instructions were given to go to URL to renew their password within 24 hours.

 

(a) Do you find any discrepancy in this email?

(b) What will happen if the student will click on the given URL?

(c) Is the email an example of cyber crime? If yes, then specify which type of cyber crime is it. Justify your answer.

Answer :-

(a) Yes, the given link in question is different from link given in email.
(b) If the student will click on the given URL then may be virus or malware and any other things come in the device's of students.
(c) Yes, an email is an example of Cyber Crime. It is a type of email spoofing, here
In spoofing attack, a hacker or malicious individual impersonates another user or device on a network, duping users or systems into believing they are legitimate or authentic.