Question

What type of attack tries every combination of characters to break a password?

wordlist attack

password dump

password capturing

brute force attack

Answer 1

Answer:Brute force attack

Explanation: Brute force attack is the attack that is done with help of the combination of characters, numbers,or words etc to decode the passwords .The decoding of the password through this combination techniques may take a while before it is based on the guessing factor.The guessing of the passwords in brute force attack is through :

• User's password
• Encrypted key
• Hash key of the password