Ethical Hacking

Learn to find vulnerabilities before the bad guys do! Gain real world hands on hacking experience in our state of the art hacking lab. Course designed and taught by expert instructors with years of penetration testing experience. 12 student maximum in every class. Certification attempt included in every package.
Computer Forensics Training at InfoSec Institute

Gain the in-demand skills of a certified computer examiner, learn to recover trace data left behind by fraud, theft, and cybercrime perpetrators. Discover the source of computer crime and abuse at your organization so that it never happens again. All of our class sizes are guaranteed to be 12 students or less to facilitate one-on-one interaction with one of our expert instructors.




Network Security Web-App-Sec
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: Article - A solution to phishing

Subject: Re: Article - A solution to phishing
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 08:07:17 -0800
My online bank uses a system of picking random numbers from
my password, and asking me to match those numbers with a
drop down box, instead of just typing in the exact password
in the same format at each login.

This "might" prevent against brute force attacks. However if somebody 
already has your password, this login process won't deter him/her from 
accessing your banc account. An easier way to prevent against brute-force 
attacks is to use CAPTCHA ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha ).

-- 
In Peace,
Saqib Ali
http://tools.tldp.org/search.php <--- Search for Linux HOWTOs

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>