Throttling login attempts

Question

(This is in principal a language-agnostic question, though in my case I am using ASP.NET 3.5)

I am using the standard ASP.NET login control and would like to impleme

Answer 1

This could possibly effect your genuine users too. For ex. in countries like Singapore there are limited number of ISPs and a smaller set of IPs which are available for home users.

Alternatively , you could possibly insert a captcha after x failed attempts to thwart script kiddies.