When your internet security is jeopardized through brute force attacks, the kind of defense you may be having boils down to passwords. But the password in itself is not a defense against such attacks. The key lies in fact in the server, and how strongly the server has configured your passwords.
Servers Should Have Lockout For Internet Security.
When it is clear that passwords do not offer you the best of defenses to you, the researchers have pointed out that internet security is dependent on a variety of policies which the servers should adopt to lockout instruction. While there are some websites who are already adopting such lockout methods, for example, when you fail to login after three attempts, your account is disabled albeit temporarily.


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