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What is a Brute Force attack in Cyber Security

  1. Physically breaking into a secure repository to steal information

  2. Trying all possible combos & permutations until the right guess works

  3. randomly guessing based on probability for the right answer

  4. Using a logarithmic algorithm to reduce the # of guesses

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Explanation

A brute force attack is a trial-and-error method used to decode encrypted data, such as passwords, by systematically checking all possible combinations until the correct one is found.

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