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Provide a description of some of the most common attacks on passwords today. How has the advancement of computer processing power changed the effectiveness of these attacks? 

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PASSWORD ATTACKS:

Passwords are used for authentication. This method of using passwords is an easy and inexpensive method.  So, most people will use passwords for authentication.

This is the reason why hackers spend so much time to uncover the passwords of the accounts they need to hack.

Let us see some of the password attacks. They are,

  1. Brute Force attack
  2. Dictionary attack
  3. Phishing
  4. Rainbow Table attack
  5. Credential Stuffing
  6. Password Spraying
  7. KeyLogger attack

Let us see them in detail.

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