PasswordsCon·43 min
John-André Bjørkhaug
Shows how RFID access badges fail through default keys, cloning and replay attacks, drawn from physical penetration tests.
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Browse DEF CON 34Las Vegas, USA · August 2024 · 13 talks
PasswordsCon talks from BSides Las Vegas 2024.
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PasswordsCon·43 min
John-André Bjørkhaug
Shows how RFID access badges fail through default keys, cloning and replay attacks, drawn from physical penetration tests.
PasswordsCon·39 min
Klaus Schmeh · Elonka Dunin
Explains how classical ciphers from centuries past are broken today using frequency analysis and hill climbing.
PasswordsCon·39 min
Filipi Pires
Walks through cloud identity misconfigurations and shows how graph-mode tooling maps privilege escalation paths.
PasswordsCon·22 min
Explains how STIR/SHAKEN authenticates caller ID to help curb phone number spoofing.
PasswordsCon·24 min
Walks through hunting CVEs in Wi-Fi routers using open-source research and the risks of default configurations.
PasswordsCon·49 min
Troy Defty · Kathy Zhu
Explains detection patterns for stolen and forged credentials, covering impossible travel and credential binding violations.
PasswordsCon·41 min
Jeff Deifik
Traces password hashing history and shows how a 1,576-password DES crypt dump was cracked with wordlists and rules.
PasswordsCon·35 min
Cecilie Wian
Explores how shared accounts and weak access controls in personal banking enable financial abuse, and what would fix them.
PasswordsCon·18 min
Rohit Bansal
Shows how small companies can drop VPN dependence using AWS Systems Manager and Verified Access under zero trust principles.
PasswordsCon·27 min
Bård Aase
Shows how character encoding mistakes garble names, emails and passwords, and why UTF-8 mix-ups keep happening.
PasswordsCon·21 min
Aldo Salas
Explores how account recovery and identity verification must change once an organization removes passwords in favor of passkeys.
PasswordsCon·42 min
Kenton McDonough
Shows how to rotate service credentials with no redeployments or downtime, using three patterns and lessons from a real system.