Question

If possible at either your place of employment or your school, attempt to determine how easy it would be to perform dumpster diving to gain access to information at the site. Are trash respectable easy to gain access to? Are documents shredded before being discarded? Are areas where trash is stored easily accessible?

Answer 1

Dumpster diving means searching through trash or garbage and finding something useful. This is often done to uncover useful information that may help an individual get access to a particular network. It can be used to trick a user and gain access to his profile. Security experts have developed many ways to deal with dumpster diving, like shredding paperwork and locking waste bins. Similarly, other alternates include the use of firewalls and data wiping off old hard drives and destroying old storage media. Sometimes it easy to access trash stores because people tend to be very casual when deleting things.