networks secruity

Question 1

whats brute force

Answer 1

A Brute Force Attack is were criminals will use trial and error to hack an account by trying thousands of different possible passwords against a particular username.

Question 2

Dos denial of service

Answer 2

This is done by acquiring multiply computers (often through malware) to repeatedly try to access (or log into) a website.
This sudden, massive increase in traffic puts the web server under extreme pressure and will ultimately cause the server’s CPU and memory to be under so much strain that the website will crash.

Question 3

whats encryption

Answer 3

Where data is scrambled before being sent across a network so that it is unreadable if intercepted.