Tuesday, 7 April 2015

What is Dictionary Attacks?

 


A dictionary attack is a brute-force technique where attackers run through common words and phrases, such as those from a dictionary, to guess passwords. It is also known as dictionary password attack. 

Most people use real words as passwords.

Trying all dictionary words and makes the attack much faster.

Hackers and spammers attempt to log in to a computer system by trying all possible passwords until the correct one is found.

Countermeasures

Lockout a user after X no of  failed login attempts

Not using Dictionary words as passwords

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