Protect Your Data: Understanding Password Attacks & How to Defend Against Them 🔐

🔐 Welcome to this essential cybersecurity lecture where we break down the most common types of password attacks used by malicious actors in the digital world. This video is designed for educational purposes, helping you understand how attackers think—so you can better defend against them.

In this lecture, we cover:

✔️ Social Engineering Attacks – How attackers manipulate people to gain access.
✔️ Brute Force Attacks (Online & Offline) – The raw power method of guessing passwords.
✔️ Password Spraying – A stealthier approach using common passwords.
✔️ Dictionary Attacks – Using lists of common passwords to break into accounts.
✔️ Rainbow Table Attacks – Exploiting precomputed hash tables to crack encrypted passwords.

💡 This is an educational guide aimed at raising awareness of the techniques hackers use, so individuals and organizations can build stronger defenses.