Dictionary attack on the forums?
Dictionary attack on the forums?
Hey, I just got hit with the captcha on my way to logging in, looks like someone might be trying to dictionary attack my account? That or something went goofy with the forums during our downtime. Just a heads up.
- sirherrbatka
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Re: Dictionary attack on the forums?
same here.
Re: Dictionary attack on the forums?
A note for anyone else running into this (I just ran into it again): I think you have to answer the math questions with a word, not a number, like "nine" rather than "9".
Re: Dictionary attack on the forums?
idem for me.
answering with a number works.
answering with a number works.
- lgromanowski
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Re: Dictionary attack on the forums?
Hi,
sorry I was off-line yesterday - website should work without problems (I'm going check the logs from yesterday - just in case).
sorry I was off-line yesterday - website should work without problems (I'm going check the logs from yesterday - just in case).
- lgromanowski
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Re: Dictionary attack on the forums?
Ok, bugtracker is not working. I'm going to check what's going on.lgromanowski wrote:Hi,
sorry I was off-line yesterday - website should work without problems (I'm going check the logs from yesterday - just in case).
- silentthief
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Re: Dictionary attack on the forums?
had similar situation yesterday with my login
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- lgromanowski
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Re: Dictionary attack on the forums?
I cleared forum cache and sessions it should help.silentthief wrote:had similar situation yesterday with my login
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