Chapter 2, Problem 16RQ

Explanation of Solution

Password attacks:

The attempts or actions made by the threat actors to know the password of an individual or any group, are called password attacks. There are three types of password attacks, they are:

• Password crack:

  The attempts to reverse-calculate a password is called “cracking”. This type of attack is used to obtain a file from Security Account Manager (SAM). In this method a possible password is taken from the Security Account Manager (SAM) file and is made to run through the hashing algorithm and meanwhile the actual password is guessed.

• Brute force:

  In this type, the computing and network resources are applied to try every possible combination for a password...