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What is a brute force password cracking attack?
It's when every combination of characters is tried until a password is broken
It's a password attack based on what an attacker already knows about a password, such as length and if it contains special characters
It's when dictionary words are run against password strings
It's when credentials are taken from a broken database
Brute force password attacks are when every combination of characters is tried until a password is broken.
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