What is a Brute Force Attack?

Thom explains what Brute Force Attack means

Thom talks about Brute Force Attack in this week’s episode of JUMPSEC’s Jargon Buster series – helping you to navigate cyber security terminology.

“A brute force attack is a technique a hacker can use to break into a computer system. They do this by trying to “guess” its password (either manually or with a computer application).”