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For example, you can create an alert for single failed logons that happen to occur within a small timeframe across 100 computers, perhaps catching a password-guessing worm or hacker in process.
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A hacker used an automated password-guessing tool, ultimately submitting thousands of guesses into Twitter's log-in page, trying to retrieve Twitter's administrative password.
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The attack I'm evaluating against is an offline password-guessing attack.
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The attack I'm evaluating against is an offline password-guessing attack.
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Passwords can still work if you can prevent offline password-guessing attacks, and watch for online guessing.
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During that time, someone was able to gain administrative access to Twitter's system and therefore access to thousands of user accounts, passwords, direct messages, and more simply by using password-guessing software.
Ars Technica Jacqui Cheng 2011
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When hackers try to gain access to a Cisco router, the system doesn't block them after failed password-guessing attempts and it doesn't alert an administrator.
Boycott Novell Roy Schestowitz 2010
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When hackers try to gain access to a Cisco router, the system doesn't block them after failed password-guessing attempts and it doesn't alert an administrator.
Boycott Novell Roy Schestowitz 2010
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In a January 2009 attack against Twitter, a Twitter support staffer's account was compromised using a password-guessing program.
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The botnet can launch a password-guessing dictionary attack on another computer, and it can also change the DNS
Macworld UK News 2010
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