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PetSmart warns customers of credential stuffing attack

March 7, 2024 admin CAPTCHA, data breach, monitoring, news, personal, petsmart, rate limiting, throttling

Pet retail company PetSmart has emailed customers to alert them to a recent attack that used reused passwords.

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Blunting RDP brute-force attacks with rate limiting

March 11, 2022 admin brute force attacks, brute force protection, Explained, honeypots, password guessing, rate limiting, RDP, Threat Intelligence

Credit to Author: Mark Stockley| Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2022 22:33:07 +0000

Rate limiting can slow a determined password guessing attack to a crawl, giving defenders months of extra time to respond.

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