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How Many Brute Force Attacks On Your Server?
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06-22-2014, 11:30 AM
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I used to be into hacking before i got into all this. They just use a bruteforce tool called sentry. Load it up with thousand and thousands of proxies plus thousands of logins (combos). If your sites have really good secuirity it doesnt really matter. They just extract the logins from similar sites which security is not so good and run them against your site. People are too lazy to use different passwords etc on each site and this is what bruteforcers prey on. Works 90% of the time. You wanna avoid it then generate people a login when they signup and dont let them pick there own
Exactly right!
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