brute force attack

Common passwords blacklist

• Albert Zenkoff
• 2013-01-09
• Technology, blacklist, brute force attack, general, Password, password database, password verification, passwords, rules, technology

Any system that implements password authentication must check whether the passwords are not too common. Every system faces the brute-force attacks that try one or another list of most common password (and usually succeed, by the way). The system must have a capability to slow down an attacker by any means available: slowing down system ...

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