What is it?

A dictionary attack in computer science is when an attacker tries to access our credentials, either social networks, a web page using all possible words in the dictionary, if you are the one who uses as password "casa123" you are among the possible victims that the victimizer can access.

It is an attack that, due to its level of data, takes a long time to complete unless the attacker manages a bot created by an algorithm that takes dictionary words from a database and starts typing keys automatically, in this case if the website does not provide captcha or other tools for the security of users will probably gain access to an individual's credentials.

How to defend yourself?

Use strong passwords, as I mentioned in this POST that it is a brute force attack, a secure password must have 14 letters counting capital letters, numbers and characters. If you want to read how is a secure password go to the post I put there in the link maybe in a next blog post we will talk about how is a secure password. 

Constantly changing passwords also makes it more difficult for the attacker to find the password.

Opinions about this type of attack.

El ataque en mi opinión es algo tonto y es uno de los más fáciles de evitar, sin embargo la gente inexperta en estos temas, es muy vulnerable a este tipo de ataque ya que piensan que tener una contraseña así, es mucho más fácil de recordar, pero se les olvida que también es más fácil de hackear. Esto es seguridad o facilidad de uso, TÚ ELIGES…