ITPEC FE Morning April 2020 Question 36
ITPEC FE Morning April 2020 — Question 36 of 80
Brute Force Attack — a trial-and-error method to guess passwords or PINs by trying all possible combinations.
Key concept: Brute force systematically checks every possible value until the correct one is found.
Why not others:
- (b) Denial of service — floods a system with traffic to make it unavailable
- (c) Man-in-the-middle — intercepts communication between two parties
- (d) Sniffing — passively captures network traffic to read data
Key rule: "Trial-and-error" in the context of obtaining credentials = brute force.
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