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Testing for Brute Force (OWASP-AT-004)

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OWASP Testing Guide v2 Table of Contents

Brief Summary


Brute-forcing consists of systematically enumerating all possible candidates for the solution and checking whether each candidate satisfies the problem's statement.

In web application testing, the problem we are going to face with the most is very

often connected with the need of having a valid user account to access the inner part of the application. Therefore we are going to check different types of authentication schema and the effectiveness of different bruteforcing attacks.

Description of the Issue


...here: Short Description of the Issue: Topic and Explanation

Black Box testing and example

Testing for Topic X vulnerabilities:
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Result Expected:
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Gray Box testing and example

Testing for Topic X vulnerabilities:
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Result Expected:
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References

Whitepapers
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Tools
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OWASP Testing Guide v2

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