What Is Brute Force Attack?

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What Is Brute Force Attack?

In the brute force attack an attacker trying too much password with different character in the hope of judging the correct password.

The attacker check all the possible passwords until one of his password found correct.In simple word the attacker can attempt to guess the password.

When the password guessing this process is too fast to check all the short passwords but for the longer password the brute force attack can took too much time,for the longer password we use dictionary attack.

Many software which are used for brute force attacks:-

•   Aircrack-ng

•   Cain and Abel

•   DaveGrohi

•   Hashcat

•   John The Ripper

•   OphCrack

•   RainbowCrack

•   Hash Code Cracker

•   Crack

•   L0phtCrack