What Is Brute Force Attack? How to Prevent Brute Force Attack?

In this Internet-connected world, peoples online privacy and digital data become a treasure attracting hustlers for profits.

In this way, professionals also developed a series of counter-attack measures.

If you are interested in this, hey refer to this article about brute force attack onMiniTool Website.

What Is a Brute Force Attack?

what is a brute force attack?

It is easy to understand what a Brute Force Attack is.

Lets take an example here to make the definition easy.

When you are trying to access your friends computer without his/her password.

In this situation, what would you do?

You would try all passwords that you think he/she might set for computer until you find the right one.

The above moves are continued with your friends approval.

But lets change the actor.

If the moves are executed by strangers, hackers, or the hostile, that can be dangerous.

We call the moves a Brute Force Attack.

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There are some different types of Brute Force Attacks.

This is the most basic tool for brute force attacks but this bang out of sequential attack is cumbersome.

Hybrid Brute Force Attacks

A hybrid attack usually mixes dictionary and simple brute force attacks.

The target is a online grid of users whose data the attacker has previously obtained.

Because users reuse login information on many sites, they are the only targets of this kind of attack.

How to Prevent Brute Force Attack?

Some people may encounter the Google Authenticator not working issue.

The reasons can be complicated but it is recoverable.

For details, c’mon read this post.

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