Internet and Its Uses · 3 question types
Past paper frequency (2018 to 2024)
This topic accounts for approximately 8% of your exam marks.
Threats (phishing, pharming, malware, DDoS, brute-force) and the matching protection methods appear in almost every paper.
A tries to discover a password by systematically trying every possible combination of characters until the correct one is found.
The attacker usually runs software that automatically generates and tests guesses, often starting with common passwords and dictionary words before moving on to longer combinations. The shorter and simpler the password, the faster the attack succeeds. A long password that mixes upper and lower case, digits and symbols has so many possible combinations that trying them all takes an impractical amount of time.