Brute Force and Dictionary attack
I’ve supposed to select «Brute force vs. Dictionary attack» for this post. But I don’t want to compare them, instead, I want to introduce some links and websites that do this.
What is a Brute force attack?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brute_force_attack
And what is a Dictionary attack?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictionary_attack
You can find the differences between these two ways for finding a password. But there are some authors that tell you more like the following link:
https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/6131-Brute-Force-vs-Dictionary-Attacks.html
Introducing a worm : One of the worms that uses from Dictionary attack is Conficker





