Welcome to another wild and wonderful episode of Word Woman's Weekly Work-Out! It's time to get that grey matter back in shape for heading back to school, so let's pump up some mental muscle with the Word of the Week:Dictionary attack: A hacking attempt in which the attacker tries to log in with your user name and a password. Each time the attacker tries, he uses a different word in the dictionary. -- "Urban Dictionary", Aaron Peckham, Andrews McMeel Publishing, Kansas City, 2005.
Example: Jesse had his identity stolen due to a dictionary attack. Poor guy had all his passwords set to "alphabet", so he never stood a chance.
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