0478 5.3 Brute Force and Social Engineering

Downloading a list of common passwords and looping through them, trying to log in with each one, is an example of...

• Brute force attack

• Social engineering

You are in a restaurant at lunchtime with your colleagues wearing work uniform. Somebody approaches you and is very friendly, asking casual questions about your company. They may be trying to perform a...

• Brute force attack

• Social engineering attack

Increasing the complexity (length, character variety) of a password will help prevent against...

• Brute Force attacks

• Social Engineering attacks

Which solutions are particularly effective at preventing brute force attacks?

• Time outs

• Training staff not to share private information

• Proxy servers

• Complex passwords

To prevent against brute force, we can have a system where a user is only allowed a few failed logins before they are locked out for a period of time. This is called...

• DDOS

• Time outs

• Social Engineering

• Lockdown