Re:Pwned Passwords in Practice: Real World Examples of Block...
by jessaustin on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @08:56PM
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ISTM the next step would be to rate limit for a given account without regard to IP. Sure that's a potential DOS, but we can wait until that's actually a problem before worrying about it.
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Re:Pwned Passwords in Practice: Real World Examples of Block...
by snowwolf on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @02:44AM
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They aren’t trying the same account multiple times. Well they may be conincidentally (if the user uses a unique password per site and has been breached from multiple sites so appears in the breach list multiple times with different passwords) but not that frequently. What they are looking for is the intersection of users who reuse passwords and have been exposed by a breach and those users who have created an account on your site reusing the same password. Which is perhaps not surprisingly a relatively large percentage of your users.