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Who needs hackers? 'Password1' opens a third of all biz doors

Alan Brown Silver badge

Re: Basic honeypots?

"Is there not some fairly simple way to test that repeated attempts are being made to crack the login?"

Of course there are - it's not at all uncommon to lock out remote addresses for XYZ time after N filed guesses.

Not that it helps much if there are 200,000 separate zombies connecting in to try and breach ABC's password.

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