I've heard the term, but what actually is bruting and can you be found out for it?
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I've heard the term, but what actually is bruting and can you be found out for it?
According to google it means browsing.
It's a process of trying literally every single combination of letters and numbers in order to eventually find a password, and yes these days most programs and functions have protection against it
it comes from the term 'brute forcing' which means systematically checking all possible keys until the correct combination is found (the password)
a while ago there were programs that would do this for you but have since been patched. if you come across one now chances are it's a fake program containing a keylogger
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Originally Posted by FlyingJesus
Oo ok that's interesting.Quote:
Originally Posted by Special
Oh, thanks for the information. If a Habbo account had been bruted, could Habbo find out?
Most likely because of the many failed attempts.Quote:
Originally Posted by Arcade
habbo has safeguards against bruting i believe.
they wouldn't know unless it was reported to them & unless you could prove you were a subject of bruting then they can't do anything about itQuote:
Originally Posted by Arcade
If you reported you were hacked they could log the IP and see all the failed log ins.Quote:
Originally Posted by Special
Ok, so it's basically trying different password combinations to get access to an account.
yes, you're basically trying to guess a passwordQuote:
Originally Posted by Arcade
Ok, thanks.
I hope you aint gona try this. :)
Of course not :) I just have heard the term being used a lot on Habbo.
To be honest brute forcing in itself can take hours, days, months, years to try all the combinations. The term you're probably looking for is a dictionary attack.
Bingo bango.Quote:
Originally Posted by Interact
To be picky, brute forcing isn't an attempt to try every possible password combination but a list of user defined possible passwords.
Trying every possible password would take longer than a system would be worth quite literally years, most systems have brute protection some are less invasive as others.
For example Habbo and nearly every email provider use a "captcha" or Image verification after x number of failed logins. A captcha is an image displayed where the user types the characters they see in the image as only a human could do this and not a program though some weaker captcha's can be completed by sophisticated bruting software.
Other systems are more aggressive against brute forcing, on Habbox if you enter a password incorrectly 3 times on any of our staff systems it will ban you automatically from our network rendering all Habbox sites unreachable and stopping the brute force attempt.
IF you managed to get a program that got past the captcha, and got the password, Habbo detect if they finally get a successful log in after so many tries. This happened to me when I bruted my old account's DOB (so I could change the pass). 3000 tries later, I got logged in but it got banned over the next few weeks.
If I am honest, one of my accounts from 2001 got accused of being bruted and I had no idea what this meant. I contacted Habbo to ask exactly what was going on and am awaiting a reply.
It doesn't even have to be user defined. It's just trying different passwords; random or user defined, it's still brute forcing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jin
If you search "How to hack a habbo account using bruting" there are loads of programs but most of them don't even work as said, most of the downloads contain keyloggers.
Or remote administration tools. Or they are just offline phishers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gibs960