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Cybersecurity & Cryptography
Q15 / 100
What is a brute force attack?
Correct! Well done.
Incorrect.
The correct answer is B) Systematically trying all possible password/key combinations until the correct one is found
B
Correct Answer
Systematically trying all possible password/key combinations until the correct one is found
Explanation
Brute force is mitigated by: account lockouts, rate limiting, long random passwords, MFA, CAPTCHAs, and PBKDF2/bcrypt/Argon2 password hashing to slow offline attacks.
Progress
15/100