ITPEC FE Morning October 2023 Question 37
ITPEC FE Morning October 2023 — Question 37 of 80
Brute force attack — trial-and-error method that systematically tries all possible combinations to guess a password or PIN.
Why not others:
- (b) Denial of service (DoS) — overwhelms a system with traffic to make it unavailable; does not attempt to guess passwords
- (c) Man-in-the-middle (MitM) — intercepts communication between two parties to eavesdrop or alter data
- (d) Sniffing — passively captures network traffic to read data in transit; no guessing involved
Key rule: "Trial-and-error" = brute force.
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