- Microsoft
- By Bogdan Popa
- July 21st, 2022
Windows 11 Will Come with Brute Force Protection Enabled by Default
Microsoft reveals new security feature for Windows 11
- Security
- By Ionut Ilascu
- September 2nd, 2014
Brute-Force Likely Used in Celeb Pic Hack
Apple updates “Find My iPhone” app, protects against brute-force attacks
- Hacking News
- By Eduard Kovacs
- April 13th, 2013
Massive Botnet Used to Launch Brute-Force Attacks Against WordPress Sites
Even WordPress' founder has issued a short advisory to help users mitigate the attacks
- Security Blog
- By Eduard Kovacs
- October 1st, 2012
Brute Force Attack Can Break PINs of Cisco CallManager Accounts, Researcher Finds
The attack relies on a “sid” token obtained in response to an HTTP GET request
- Server related
- By Lucian Constantin
- August 11th, 2010
Compromised Web Servers Used to Build SSH Brute Force Botnet
- Security
- By Lucian Constantin
- July 29th, 2010
Information of Over 100 Million Facebook Users Available for Download
Data can be used to increase effectiveness of brute forcing tools
- Security
- By Lucian Constantin
- September 21st, 2009
Spammers Brute-Force Yahoo Back Door
Insecure API abused for years
- Advisories
- By Lucian Constantin
- July 20th, 2009
Feasible Client-Side CSRF Token Brute Force Attack Revealed
Uses three-year-old CSS-based history hack to extract tokens
- Hacking News
- By Lucian Constantin
- December 3rd, 2008
PDF Passwords 100 Times Less Secure in Acrobat 9
According to a company developing password recovery software