What of the following are examples of cracking an encrypted password? (Choose four correct answers)
- Intimidation
- Brute force attack
- Network sniffing
- Rainbow tables
- Social engineering
- Spraying
- Dictionary attack
Explanation: These four techniques are specific methods used to uncover or crack passwords: brute-force attacks try every possible character combination; dictionary attacks systematically test words from a list; spraying uses common passwords across many different accounts; and rainbow tables utilize a dictionary of precomputed hashes to identify passwords without calculating each hash individually.
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