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CAS-003 · Question #302

An information security officer is responsible for one secure network and one office network. Recent intelligence suggests there is an opportunity for attackers to gain access to the secure network…

The correct answer is D. Password cracker. We gained passwords from hashed values in the file by cracking them.

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Question

An information security officer is responsible for one secure network and one office network. Recent intelligence suggests there is an opportunity for attackers to gain access to the secure network due to similar login credentials across networks. To determine the users who should change their information, the information security officer uses a tool to scan a file with hashed values on both networks and receives the following data:

Which of the following tools was used to gather this information from the hashed values in the file?

Exhibit

CAS-003 question #302 exhibit

Options

  • AVulnerability scanner
  • BFuzzer
  • CMD5 generator
  • DPassword cracker
  • EProtocol analyzer

How the community answered

(52 responses)
  • B
    2% (1)
  • C
    4% (2)
  • D
    94% (49)

Explanation

We gained passwords from hashed values in the file by cracking them.

Topics

#password cracking#hash analysis#credential auditing#network security

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