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Password Attacks
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Question | Answers |
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A short list of commonly used passwords tried against large number of user accounts is a characteristic feature of: | c. spraying attack |
Which password attack bypasses account-lockout policies? | b. spraying attack |
Which password attack takes advantage of a predefined list of words? | c. dictionary attack |
One of the measures for bypassing the failed logon attempt account lockout policy is to capture any relevant data that might contain the password and brute force it offline. | a. true |
An attack against encrypted data that relies heavily on computing power to check all possible keys and passwords until the correct one is found is known as: | b. brute-force attack |
Rainbow tables are lookup tables used to speed up the process of password guessing. | a. true |
Which of the following refers to the contents of a rainbow table entry? | a. hash/password |