Dictionary Attack
A dictionary attack is a combination of words and phrases. Hackers try passwords such as the names of movie characters, pet characters, and people’s relatives. If using these techniques, they crack the password successfully, and in that case, they steal our sensitive information. In the dictionary attack, hackers mostly targeted financial institutions and e-commerce sites to steal sensitive information. In this attack, hackers use a leaked password that was previously used to make the attack successful.
Prevention of Dictionary Attack
- Use a combination of passwords that include uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, and special characters.
- Give login limits to the account. If the hacker tries to log in to your account three times, again and again, the login fails. When they logged in four times, they were blocked.
- Change or reset the password regularly.
What are Password Vulnerabilities?
Password Vulnerabilities are the type of password attack. A password is a collection of letters, numbers, and special characters that is confidential and knows the user when they are created. Hackers crack the password by using brute force approaches and many techniques, it easily steals our sensitive information from websites and accounts. In this article, we will see a password vulnerabilities in detailed.
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