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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?
a) brute force attack
b) dictionary attack
c) phishing attack
d) social engineer attack

which of the following types of hacker attacks searches for previous passwords that have been found?
a) brute force attack
b) leonardo attck
c) dictionary attack
d) DOS attack

a collection of cryptographic hashes, random-looking strings of characters into which the passwords have been mathematically transformed to prevent them from being misused.
a) encryption
b) hash
c) password
d) trick or treat

passwords of _____ characters or less are easily cracked by brute force code
a) 7
b) 10
c) 8
d) 9

which of the following are suggested as a way of securing your passwords
a) four random words
b) pets names
c) all of the above
d) none of the above

which of the following is maybe the most common password?
a) your name
b) your date of birth
c) joemomma
d) password1

Keeper, 1password, and Lastpass are all examples of
a) password managers
b) bad passwords
c) security system
d) antivirus

Two-thirds of people use no more than ____ passwords for all their online accounts.
a) 2
b) 1
c) 3
d) 4

a type of malicious software designed to block access to a computer system until a sum of money is paid.
a) malware
b) adware
c) ransomwear
d) winterwear

A(n) ____ character password using only upper- or lower-case characters has 200 billion potential combinations.
a) 16
b) 4
c) 8
d) 20

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