Users attending security training at work are advised not to use single words as passwords for corporate applications. Which of the following does this BEST protect against?
While the answer can be both a brute force attack and a dictionary attack, the best answer for this question is a dictionary attack. A dictionary attack software matches the hash to those produced by ordinary words found in a dictionary.
- The advice not to use single words as passwords for corporate applications is primarily aimed at protecting against a dictionary attack. A dictionary attack is a type of cyber attack that involves an attacker using a list of words or commonly used passwords to try and gain unauthorized access to a system. By using a single word as a password, an attacker could easily guess the password using a list of common words.
Dictionary Attack: In this type of attack, an attacker uses a precompiled list of words like in a dictionary to guess the password. Single-word passwords are vulnerable because they are common and predictable.
A dictionary attack is a method of breaking into a password-protected computer, network or other IT resource by systematically entering every word in a dictionary as a password
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