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Saturday, July 21, 2012

Brute Force Password Attack

Hello friends, Today I will give you the information about the password cracker which is used by hackers. “Brute Force” is one of the  most used hacking weapon which helps the hackers to crack passwords to various accounts.
Brute Force
It is a kind of password recovery method. It does not help in decrypting the encrypted password, but try different password to crack it. It has directory of whole word and list of all the passwords which are commonly used. It depends upon the different password categories means the password can be case sensitive or not. If the password is not case sensitive then it does not create any problem. But if the password is in case sensitive then it can create some problems.

How a brute force works

A brute force attack is held via the default FTP access on the server. For example if you create an account on the server, it creates same username with 8 characters by default, which is. So, this is the default cPanel format. This makes easy to know the username. Then the brute force is made on the passwords, which makes it easy for them to get into the account.

Prevention from Brute Force attack

One of the best method to stop brute force attack is to disable the default FTP access to the server and clients which requires FTP access. When the FTP access get disabled then it will disable the username and will not create the same password thus in this way the Brute Force will not able to crack the password.
There are no of Brute force attack tool available in Google example FTP Brute force attack, MySql Brute force attack.

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