For the SPAM/BRUTEFORCE option, it checks the resistance of a website or login page to spam attacks (or situations where a hacker uses an automated script or program to try different password combinations).
This program then recommends the login page security level by counting the limit of password attempts before the server locks the user out or before a CAPTCHA is provided.
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You enter a username/email that is valid on the login webpage you'll like to test. This is entered in the section:
Existing username/email to use -
For the username/email, password and login page:
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You need to go to the login webpage to get the html element identifier. You can get the html element identifier either:
By Name or By CSS Selector -
To get the html element identifier for email, password or the login button:
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Go to the login webpage, right click on the field (either email text box, password text box or login button) and click on 'Inspect'
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Clicking on 'Inspect' will take you directly to the html line where you can find the tag and name defined for the element.
-- To get the value defined for the name tag of the element, look for name in the html line tag:
E.g: <input data-bn-type="input" autocomplete="section-email email" type="email" name="email" class="css-16fg16t" value="">In the above example, name tag is: email. Next, put 'email' as the name tag into the application and select 'By Name'
-- To get the value defined for CSS Selector, right click on the html line tag (located aftering click 'Inspect' as described above) and click: Copy as CSS Selector. Then paste the string into the VunScan application and select "By CSS selector"
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Finally, click the button at the end of the application to browse to your Brave or Chrome application in your Desktop folder.
- VOILA: Click on 'Begin VunScan' to begin scanning operation.