A new employee is celebrating their position with a large company by posting a picture of their access identification on social media. What kind of physical attack has the new employee unknowingly enabled?

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watering hole
pivot
badge cloning
shoulder surfing

Explanation: Attackers can perform different badge cloning attacks. Attackers can often leverage pictures of people´s badges on social media. Attackers can often obtain detailed information about corporate badges' design (look and feel) from social media websites such as Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn when people post photos showing their badges when they get new jobs or leave old ones.

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