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Account Lockout

An element of the password policy’s programmatic controls that disables a user account after a specified number of failed logon attempts. Account lockout is an effective countermeasure to brute-force and dictionary attacks against a system’s logon prompt.


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A form of password attack in which a dictionary attack is first attempted and then a type of brute-force attack is performed. The follow-up brute-force attack is used to add prefix or suffix characters to passwords from the dictionary in order to discover one- upped constructed passwords, two-upped constructed passwords, and so on.
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An attack against a system designed to discover the password to a known identity (in other words, a username). In a dictionary attack, a script of common passwords and dictionary words is used to attempt to discover an account’s password.
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