Overview[1]#

Heuristic Attacks are when the Attacker use a bunch of heuristic rules to produce weaker Item of Interest much faster than truly randomly chosen ones.

Heuristic Attacks is often used for Attacks on Password Authentication

More Information#

There might be more information for this subject on one of the following:

• Password Authentication is Broken
• Password Quality
• Password Spraying

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• [#1] - Anatomy of a brute force attack – how important is password complexity? - based on information obtained 2017-04-08-