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What variation of a dictionary attack involves a dictionary attack combined with a brute force attack, and will slightly alter dictionary words by adding numbers to the end of the password, spelling words backward, slightly misspelling words, or including special characters?Group of answer choicesbrute forcehash replaynetwork replayhybrid

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What variation of a dictionary attack involves a dictionary attack combined with a brute force attack, and will slightly alter dictionary words by adding numbers to the end of the password, spelling words backward, slightly misspelling words, or including special characters?Group of answer choicesbrute forcehash replaynetwork replayhybrid

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The variation of a dictionary attack that involves a combination of a dictionary attack and a brute force attack, and slightly alters dictionary words by adding numbers to the end of the password, spelling words backward, slightly misspelling words, or including special characters is known as a hybrid attack.

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