EC-Council
EC0-350 · Question #578
When discussing passwords, what is considered a brute force attack?
The correct answer is A. You attempt every single possibility until you exhaust all possible combinations or discover the. See the full explanation below for the reasoning.
Question
When discussing passwords, what is considered a brute force attack?
Options
- AYou attempt every single possibility until you exhaust all possible combinations or discover the
- BYou threaten to use the rubber hose on someone unless they reveal their password
- CYou load a dictionary of words into your cracking program
- DYou create hashes of a large number of words and compare it with the encrypted passwords
- EYou wait until the password expires
How the community answered
(39 responses)- A77% (30)
- B3% (1)
- C3% (1)
- D13% (5)
- E5% (2)
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