2014年6月11日星期三

Anna Filina: Brute-force countermeasures


In her latest post Anna Filina has made some recommendations of countermeasures you can use to help prevent abuse against brute force attacks in your applications. The recommendations aren't PHP-specific, but they're a good guide and a place to start.



Password brute-forcing refers to trying all password permutations until the attacker finds the right one. Here are some of the most common ways to mitigate that risk: increase the length of the password and increase the number of possible characters. [...] The human factor should not be ignored here. People often use letters in the beginning and numbers at the end.


She recommends a few other tactics to helping prevent the brute forcing including locking an account after a number of unsuccessful login attempts and requiring a CAPTCHA after a number of unsuccessful logins. She recommends not relying on a single method to help prevent this kind of attack, however. Multiple layers can only help, but be careful not to introduce too much complexity.


Link: http://afilina.com/brute-force-countermesures

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