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Hi everyone, welcome back. Cyber security is an important area of focus. There is a whole lot of data that is being stored and transmitted digitally. This includes sensitive data that could potentially cause damage to someone or even a whole company. We will go over some common attacks used regarding passwords. With this introduction out of the way, let’s get into it.
Dictionary Attacks
Dictionary attacks is one of the most common type of password attacks. A dictionary attack uses all of the words in a dictionary, or any list of specific keywords such as a list of previously breached passwords, to attempt to crack passwords. Special characters and numbers don’t appear in the words of a dictionary. So dictionary attacks won’t crack passwords that contain special characters or numbers. Oddly, misspelled words being used as passwords that don’t appear in the dictionary also won’t be cracked.
Brute-Force Attacks
This is another common type of attack used regarding passwords. A brute-force attack will run through all the different combinations of characters to attempt to crack a password. These characters include letters, numbers, and special characters. Having a password with random characters and salt will slow down the attack, but eventually, if given unlimited tries and enough time, the…
