"Researchers Propose New Approach to Address Online Password-Guessing Attacks"

Automated attacks aimed at guessing passwords have become a major threat to Web service providers. A new approach has been designed by two security researchers to address "breadth first" attacks in which password guesses are tried against a large number of online accounts. This article continues to discuss breadth first attacks, the new approach to addressing such attacks, and the limitations of other approaches.

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