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which of the following types of hacker attacks runs a program that simply throws billions of character combinations at a password?
ransomwear
password managers
dictionary attack
hash
8
four random words
brute force attack
2
a collection of cryptographic hashes, random-looking strings of characters into which the passwords have been mathematically transformed to prevent them from being misused.
ransomwear
password managers
dictionary attack
hash
8
four random words
brute force attack
2
a type of malicious software designed to block access to a computer system until a sum of money is paid.
ransomwear
password managers
dictionary attack
hash
8
four random words
brute force attack
2
Keeper, 1password, and Lastpass are all examples of
ransomwear
password managers
dictionary attack
hash
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four random words
brute force attack
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which of the following types of hacker attacks searches for previous passwords that have been found?
ransomwear
password managers
dictionary attack
hash
8
four random words
brute force attack
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which of the following are suggested as a way of securing your passwords
ransomwear
password managers
dictionary attack
hash
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four random words
brute force attack
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A(n) ____ character password using only upper- or lower-case characters has 200 billion potential combinations.
ransomwear
password managers
dictionary attack
hash
8
four random words
brute force attack
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Two-thirds of people use no more than ____ passwords for all their online accounts.
ransomwear
password managers
dictionary attack
hash
8
four random words
brute force attack
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