Page 1 of 1
MAXIMUM LOGIN ATTEMPT ERROR??
Posted:
Thu Jul 27, 2006 5:46 pmby General Mayhem
Anyone had this before. I came to go in tonight at was told id exceeded the login attempts and had to wait 30 minutes?? WTF is that about?
Is it a bug or sabotage?
GM
Posted:
Thu Jul 27, 2006 5:52 pmby Nappy Bone Apart
Sounds like somebody might be trying to hack you. Or you're in and out ALOT.
Posted:
Thu Jul 27, 2006 5:53 pmby strike wolf
Don't know what it means.
Posted:
Thu Jul 27, 2006 6:41 pmby wcaclimbing
if you try to log in a certain number of times with the wrong password within 30 minutes, it blocks you from logging in
(this is to prevent hackers from trying to guess you password over and over again)
Posted:
Thu Jul 27, 2006 7:23 pmby mrdexter
I've never seen it happen as a bug, only ever when the attempts have been exceeded. The default is 5 incorrect attempts followed by a 30 minute time out.
Posted:
Fri Jul 28, 2006 12:19 amby General Mayhem
Hmmm. Only 5 eh? So its potentially open to abuse if someone wants to stop me playing within the next 30 minutes!!
Posted:
Fri Jul 28, 2006 2:41 amby Ronaldinho
jst open up explorer and sign in on that........
Posted:
Fri Jul 28, 2006 4:35 amby General Mayhem
its fine now but Explorer isnt supported on apple mac and is freakin horrible. Death to Microsoft!
Posted:
Fri Jul 28, 2006 4:47 amby mrdexter
General Mayhem wrote:Hmmm. Only 5 eh? So its potentially open to abuse if someone wants to stop me playing within the next 30 minutes!!
yes, but if you had it the other way, someone could sit and use a brute force password guesser on your account. Besides, maybe Lack has it higher than 5.
Posted:
Fri Jul 28, 2006 11:49 amby Ronaldinho
General Mayhem wrote:its fine now but Explorer isnt supported on apple mac and is freakin horrible. Death to Microsoft!
use firefox, this is what i use.
Posted:
Sun Jul 30, 2006 5:04 pmby lackattack
The security system in place to prevent brute force account hijacking works the same no matter which browser you have.
There was a design flaw that allowed you to perform a denial of service attack on an opponent by simply attempting to login as them repeatedly with the wrong password.
This vulnerability has now been resolved.
Pardon my liberal usage of internet security jargon in this post.
Posted:
Sun Jul 30, 2006 5:07 pmby SprCobra
DDoS attack for a game of internet risk
Someone musy be really desperate for points