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What is the term for an attacker using a single common password against multiple accounts?

  • Spoofing
  • Recursive
  • Spraying
  • Splattering
  • I’m not sure, but I’m excited to learn more!

Correct Answer: Spraying

Explanation

Thanks again to @jameswalker20 for this question!

Password spraying is an attack where an attacker will attempt to use a common password against multiple accounts.

Further Reading

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Can’t say I’ve heard of this before, but a bit of logic and a little luck .. and I got it right.

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BTW. @Professor-Capsaicin-Spiceworks & @Josh-J-Spiceworks, the “View my stats” link doesn’t seem to be working properly … it just brings me back to this page.

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And while we’re not on the subject …

Happy birthday @Sean-Spiceworks! :partying_face:

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Yay, lucky guess? Well, my lucky reasoning was

  • spoofing I feel generally refers to pretending make something real? Also my Pokemon Go senses tell me it’s GPS related haha
  • Recursive means going back and doing something again, so I feel like needs extra steps
  • Splattering I’ve never heard of in the computer world outside of Splatoon lol. Sounds gross.
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Yup, that was pretty much my logic, too.

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I‘ll get someone to take a look at that.

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The “view my stats” link is removed. We got a little too excited about the daily challenge stats that we’re currently working on.

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splattering sound the best answer by far… the sound of it when you say it, brought a smile to my face.

spraying was the most obvious answer out of all of them tho

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If you read the Dresden book, Proven Guilty. There is a a horror convention called SPLATTERCON!!!

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I scrolled up and back down, then back up again and realized, they removed the link. :rofl:
@jameswalker20
My mind immediately to blood splatter for some reason. Too many true crime docs.

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I recall you were in the military. That might have triggered it as well.

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“When in doubt, Charlie Out”
Has been working quite well.
I knew at least to eliminate Spoofing.

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You weren’t missing much @HulkSmash, it will eventually go to here

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If I put BaCoN on everything I eat, that’s “Spraying”. If I do that over and over, that’s “Recursive”. If I spill the BaCoN grease, that’s “Splattering”. If someone (won’t be me!) eats Turkey bacon, that’s “Spoofing”.

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I chose wrong. I figured it was spraying or splattering because both sounded so similar and typically same sounding words are thrown in to trick us, but I went with my gut and got it wrong. Oh well better luck next time.

Edit: OH! I reread the question and literally thought it asked about multiple attempts, not multiple accounts. Ooops.

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@HulkSmash 's stats will go on my page? :thinking: :wink:

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I really hope not - I’m about 50% right and 50% wrong. :joy:

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You’re doing better than that! I’ll PM you more detailed results, but I’d say it’s a pretty nice percentage correct! :slight_smile:

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Very nice percentage. I’ll do my best to maintain right there.

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