Yesterday's brute force attempts at password hacking

[G0F0RBR0KE]

<font color="DarkRed">201.41.166.59

This is the IPs and they are from Brazil!

I was like "What the heck is this?"

I decided to review my account. Thanks for the headsup. </font>

[Adrian Schneider]

Mine was from a proxy...

Fortunately, vBulletin throttles login attempts so it's pretty hopeless trying to hack through the applications login functionality.

[Marv]

Lynne,
do you know a mod, where the minimum password length could be altered? I thought I´d seen something like that, but I can´t find it anymore..

[Lynne]

Originally Posted by Marv

Lynne,
do you know a mod, where the minimum password length could be altered? I thought I?d seen something like that, but I can?t find it anymore..

I do not know of one, but I've never looked for one either.

[SuperTaz]

Is it possible to set up login so everyone uses their email address to sign in rather than their display name? It helps on other large corporate sites that have forums.

[Lynne]

Originally Posted by SuperTaz

Is it possible to set up login so everyone uses their email address to sign in rather than their display name? It helps on other large corporate sites that have forums.

How would that help here?

[smooth-c]

^ I'm guessing so members email addresses can't be guessed in the first place.

[SuperTaz]

Originally Posted by smooth-c

^ I'm guessing so members email addresses can't be guessed in the first place.

+1 Exactly.

[cclaerhout]

If it can help, here are the IP who tried to access my account:
82.199.105.194
81.177.144.176

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by Adem GEN?

I got the email

Now I changed my password, vbulletin.org & vbulletin.com
Now my passwords 33 characters

You probably don't want to advertise how long your password is. It's one less thing a hacker has to guess.

I realize brute forcing 33 character password is futile but it's orders of magnitude easier than not knowing how long it is.