Question

Try to keep your passwords without meaning so that _____________ attack becomes almost impossible to perform successfully.

(a) social engineering

(b) phishing

(c) password guessing

(d) brute force

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This question is from Attack Vectors topic in section Understanding Attack Vectors of Cyber Security

Answer 1

Correct choice is (c) password guessing

To elaborate: Try to keep your passwords without meaning so that password guessing attack becomes almost impossible to perform successfully. This will reduce the potential to do both passwords guessing as well as dictionary attacks.