Question

Password cracking is a technique used to extract user’s password of application/files without the knowledge of the legitimate user. Which of the password cracking technique will the attacker use if he/she gets some information about the password to crack?
Denial of Service Attack
Syllable Attack
Rule-based Attack
Distributed Network Attack (DNA)

Answer 1

Answer:

Rule-based Attack

Explanation:

Rule-based attack:- This type of attack is mainly focused on cracking passwords.It is a password cracking technique when an attacker has some information about the rules like if he has some knowledge of which rules are used in passwords , like the length of the password ,the password is alphanumeric or numeric only etc.