What is Brute Force Hack?

Question

Brute force hacking technical details??

Answer 1

Brutforcing is the act of literally trying every combination for a password or series of events in an organized or unorganized way until you get the desired result

Answer 2

Trial and error method of cracking an encrypted phrase (usually a password). It’s done over and over relying on yourself and your knowledge exhaustingly instead of using intellectual strategies. Not something I’d recommend. Takes forever and really ends up a waste of time for most people. https://www.techopedia.com/definition/18091/brute-force-attack

Answer 3

Basically you are right @sql, but bruteforce can be successful under certain circumstances. Such scenarios require multiple bad choices of the guys who designed the security though. A hacked database which contains passwords encrypted in an outdated hash function can get a lot of positive results if you have enough computing power and a good dictionary combined with a good ruleset.
But like I said: The security needs to fail on multiple levels to allow such scenarios. And even then just the people with bad passwords get screwed.