MAXIMUM LOGIN ATTEMPT ERROR??

General Mayhem · Post by **General Mayhem** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 5:46 pm

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

Nappy Bone Apart · Post by **Nappy Bone Apart** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 5:52 pm

Sounds like somebody might be trying to hack you. Or you're in and out ALOT.

strike wolf · Post by **strike wolf** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 5:53 pm

Don't know what it means.

wcaclimbing · Post by **wcaclimbing** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 6:41 pm

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)

mrdexter · Post by **mrdexter** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 7:23 pm

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.

General Mayhem · Post by **General Mayhem** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 12:19 am

Hmmm. Only 5 eh? So its potentially open to abuse if someone wants to stop me playing within the next 30 minutes!!

Ronaldinho · Post by **Ronaldinho** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 2:41 am

jst open up explorer and sign in on that........

General Mayhem · Post by **General Mayhem** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 4:35 am

its fine now but Explorer isnt supported on apple mac and is freakin horrible. Death to Microsoft!

mrdexter · Post by **mrdexter** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 4:47 am

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.

Ronaldinho · Post by **Ronaldinho** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 11:49 am

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.

lackattack · Post by **lackattack** » Sun Jul 30, 2006 5:04 pm

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.

SprCobra · Post by **SprCobra** » Sun Jul 30, 2006 5:07 pm

DDoS attack for a game of internet risk
Someone musy be really desperate for points