Password Attacks

Passwords are one of the weakest authentication techniques in an array of cybersecurity controls in an organization. Password attack is a cyberattack employed to bypass or exploit authentication of user accounts in a system. Furthermore, it involves exploitation of authentication and authorization vulnerabilities in a given system combined with sophisticated automatic password manipulation tools that speed up the guessing and cracking of passwords. A strong password is a long alphanumeric, employs a combination of character types, and helps to prevent many of the following password attacks.

• Credential stuffing attack
• Dictionary attack
• Keylogger attack
• Brute-force password attack
• Man in the middle attack
• Password spraying attack
• Phishing attack
• Social engineering attack
• Password reuse attack
• Password reset attack
• Birthday attacks
• Rainbow table attack
• Pass-the-hash attack