Password Attacks

Question 1

What is a Brute Force Attack?

Answer 1

A password attack that is essentially guessing every possible combination.

Question 2

What is a Dictionary Attack?

Answer 2

A type of brute force attack that uses a large dictionary list.

Question 3

What is a Rainbow Table attack?

Answer 3

A password attack that uses tables of reversed hashes used to crack password hashes. Computer systems requiring passwords typically store the passwords as a hash value of the user’s password.

Question 4

What is a Password Spraying Attack?

Answer 4

An attack that uses a single password against multiple accounts.

Question 5

What is a Password Attack?

Answer 5

Attacks against an authentication system to gain access or credentials. They typically automate the process of trying to gain credentials or break into an account.

Question 6

What are some of the characteristics of an Online Attack against a password?

Answer 6

1) Attacking a remote logon interface
2) Limited Attempts
3) Bandwidth limits
4) Detectable

Question 7

What are some of the characteristics of an Offline Attack against a password?

Answer 7

1) Attacking password directly
2) Can obtain password hash
3) Limited by processing power
4) Harder to detect