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Enumeration attack

Security På svenska → Updated: 2026-05-23

List valid usernames, emails or other resources via systematic probing.

Classic channels: "username already taken" messages, different errors for "wrong password" vs "unknown user", URLs /users/1, /users/2... Defences: generic error messages, rate limiting, UUIDs instead of incrementing IDs.

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