Anybody can try to log in to someone else’s account so there is no real way it can be stopped. Most of the time it is not actually a real person doing the “hacking” but a BOT (computer programme) The BOT will target a forum and try to log-in to your account using passwords like “qwerty” “abc123” or the most common password – “password” …you’d be amazed how many people use password as their password, I’m guilty of it when I first started on computers.
NESA admin could install BOT prevention controls which is pretty easily done depending on what platform the forum uses but the only admin I think is Elton who never seems to be around. As these computer bot programs work off scripts they cant "think" so a common way around it for forum administrators is asking questions on log-ins...bots cant answer these.
So yeah, the BOTS can be stopped in the most part but you can never prevent an actual person from having a go at your password…much like you can never really ban a person from the forum permanently as I.P address scrambling is so easy now. You can be extra secure by using a password like “E7xd5Apsnb” but as long as you’re not using something daft like “mypassword” then you should be ok on NESA at least, I really can’t imagine any large scale attack on a small fishing forum.
