crackers also know that if you build a password dictionary by trawling a forum for the most popular words, you'll generally get at least a few accounts on that forum easily by counting down.
this...
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crackers also know that if you build a password dictionary by trawling a forum for the most popular words, you'll generally get at least a few accounts on that forum easily by counting down.
this...
actually you'd be suprised
if it's an over-the-wire crack where you can only check five passwords every 10 minutes because you get locked out; the chances of 'test password' being chosen that...
it's probably nothing to worry about. brute forcing a password almost never works if the forum is configured to stop allowing logins after a few attempts like that.
the only reason i'd be...