A dictionary attack is being used by an attacker to break into a network. What does this mean?

A) The attacker is using only lowercase letter for unknown words.
B) The attacker is using known passwords and many variations of upper- and lowercase combinations.
C) The attacker is using only uppercase letters for common words.
D) The attacker is using a secret list of code words.
E) All of these answers are correct.


B

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