ECCouncil Certified Ethical Hacker Exam (CEHv13) 312-50v13 Question # 118 Topic 12 Discussion

ECCouncil Certified Ethical Hacker Exam (CEHv13) 312-50v13 Question # 118 Topic 12 Discussion

312-50v13 Exam Topic 12 Question 118 Discussion:
Question #: 118
Topic #: 12

An attacker decided to crack the passwords used by industrial control systems. In this process, he employed a loop strategy to recover these passwords. He used one character at a time to check whether the first character entered is correct; if so, he continued the loop for consecutive characters. If not, he terminated the loop. Furthermore, the attacker checked how much time the device took to finish one complete password authentication process, through which he deduced how many characters entered are correct.

What is the attack technique employed by the attacker to crack the passwords of the industrial control systems?


A.

Side-channel attack


B.

Denial-of-service attack


C.

HMI-based attack


D.

Buffer overflow attack


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