5.3 - cybersecurity 🛡

Question 1

how can passwords be made more secure against brute force attacks?

Answer 1

by ensuring they’re not included in the lists of most common passwords while also strengthening word lists that could be used in such attacks w/ a wider variety of characters to ensure it’d take very long to crack your password

Question 2

what methods of data interception are there and how do they work?

Answer 2

packet sniffing (involves data packet examination over a network) and wardriving (involves intercepting connections from another place via a device-antenna-GPS combo)

Question 3

what type of protocol can help prevent intercepted data from being comprehensible to the hacker?

Answer 3

WEP - it should then be combined w/ a firewall for maximum encryption