Which of the following password attacks involves attempting all kinds of keystroke combinations
on the keyboard with the intention to gain administrative access?
A.
Dictionary
B.
Hybrid
C.
Watering hole
D.
Brute Force
Which of the following password attacks involves attempting all kinds of keystroke combinations on the keyboard with the intention to gain administrative access?
Which of the following password attacks involves attempting all kinds of keystroke combinations
on the keyboard with the intention to gain administrative access?
D
This is a brute force attack – D.
Explanation: Don’t forget there are number and symbol keys on your keyboard. The question states all kinds of keystroke, not all the letter keystroke, it is a mix of brute force and dictionary = hybrid attack.
A dictionary attack is where you use a large list of dictionary words against a target (fairly fast).
A Brute force attack is every possible combination of letters, numbers, special characters (very slow)
A hybrid is where you use the dictionary words and add numbers at the end or change the o to 0 or add some special character. The hybrid is between brute force and dictionary.
For this answer, the correct one is Brute force D.