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All of the following are the password cracking attacks performed by the cain tool except for which one?

The correct answer is C. DoS attack. Cain and Abel is a password recovery tool supporting brute force, dictionary, and rainbow table attacks, but it has no capability to launch Denial of Service attacks.

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Question

All of the following are the password cracking attacks performed by the cain tool except for which one?

Options

  • ABrute force attack
  • BDictionary attack
  • CDoS attack
  • DRainbow attack

How the community answered

(30 responses)
  • B
    3% (1)
  • C
    93% (28)
  • D
    3% (1)

Why each option

Cain and Abel is a password recovery tool supporting brute force, dictionary, and rainbow table attacks, but it has no capability to launch Denial of Service attacks.

ABrute force attack

Brute force attack is a native feature of Cain and Abel, exhaustively trying all possible character combinations to recover a password.

BDictionary attack

Dictionary attack is a built-in Cain and Abel method that tests passwords against a precompiled wordlist.

CDoS attackCorrect

DoS attacks are network-layer disruption techniques that overwhelm a target with traffic or requests, which is entirely outside the scope of the Cain and Abel toolset. Cain and Abel is strictly a password auditing and recovery application, and none of its modules are designed to disrupt service availability.

DRainbow attack

Rainbow attack (rainbow table lookup) is a core Cain and Abel feature used to reverse cryptographic hashes by comparing them against precomputed hash chains.

Concept tested: Cain and Abel tool password cracking methods

Topics

#password cracking#Cain tool#brute force#dictionary attack

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