STEM Dictionary

Information Technology:

Backdoor

Bandwidth

Banner

Binary

Bit

Bit field

Bluetooth

Broadcast

Broadcast Address

Brownout

Browser

Brute Force

Buffer

Bus

Byte

Brute Force

Definition

systematically checking all possible keys or passwords until the correct one is found

Sentence

My password was weak, so they got in with a brute force attack.

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This material is based on work supported by the National Science Foundation under Award Numbers 1104229, 1501756, and 1902474.