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Definition: password spraying


A variant of the "brute force attack" for gaining illegal entry to a server. Instead of trying thousands of passwords against a user account, password spraying uses one password against many accounts before trying another password. This circumvents the common security measure whereby the account is locked out for a period of time after a certain number of password attempts fail. See brute force attack, user account and password.