discuss What is a brute force attack?

[BreezeHost]

What is a brute force attack? How can we prevent it on the server?

please share your views

 

[tupungato]

Brute force attack: countless attempts to login by trying literally any character combination for password.
Prevention: limit hourly login attempts. Lock an account after a reasonable number of failed login attempts. Lock an IP after a reasonable number of failed login attempts.

 

[enlytend]

I see you offer web hosting. What kind of web host doesn't know what a brute force attack is?

 

[barefooted]

 

[Irene123]

Brute force attacks are tries by attacker to login and steal the data from accounts. Actually they apply different combination of alphanumerics and try till the exact password they got.
Preventions like lockout the account after login failed or lockout the IP which is trying to login somehow work but not better.
You can try to set up an auto question prior for two to three login failed that defend your account.