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Vulnerability Exploitation & Privilege Escalation
Question
Which approach is recommended to prevent a DoS condition due to account lockouts as a result of a password guessing attack?
Options
- ALimit the attack to a small number of dormant accounts, and maximize the number of password
- BMaximize the number of accounts and hosts that are targeted, but try only two password guesses
- CEmploy a hybrid attack during non-business hours
- DUse a script to automate password guesses at the accounts, limiting the guesses to 1 per every
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Topics
#account lockout#password guessing#brute force prevention#credential attacks