PasswordsCon·43 min
Jeff Deifik
Walks through cracking hundreds of millions of leaked NTLM password hashes using CPU rigs, custom rules and curated wordlists.
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Browse DEF CON 34Las Vegas, USA · August 2025 · 15 talks
PasswordsCon talks from BSides Las Vegas 2025.
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PasswordsCon·43 min
Jeff Deifik
Walks through cracking hundreds of millions of leaked NTLM password hashes using CPU rigs, custom rules and curated wordlists.
PasswordsCon·31 min
Or Eshed
Examines unmanaged SaaS accounts outside corporate identity providers and how weak, reused passwords expose organizations.
PasswordsCon·43 min
Or Eshed
Explains how malicious browser extensions access cookies and passwords, and what defenders can do about it.
PasswordsCon·46 min
Shows how threat intelligence sources overlap, lag and conflict, and what that means for defenders who rely on them.
PasswordsCon·41 min
Dwayne McDaniel
Argues that hardcoded, long-lived credentials make non-human identities a major breach risk and outlines practical fixes.
PasswordsCon·24 min
Dave Lewis
Argues that defenders should treat breaches as lessons, using anecdotes on shadow IT, default credentials and incident planning.
PasswordsCon·55 min
Filipi Pires
Shows how one overly broad cloud permission can let an attacker escalate privileges across an entire organization.
PasswordsCon·48 min
Mat Saulnier
Shows how cracking your own Active Directory password hashes can turn compliance rules into a measurable control.
PasswordsCon·22 min
Dimitri Fousekis
Shows cracked-password data from real organizations that undercuts forced password rotation and suggests risk-based alternatives.
PasswordsCon·19 min
Gautier Bugeon
Shows how a decoy login portal can expose attackers reusing stolen credentials so defenders can reset them early.
PasswordsCon·17 min
Dustin Heywood
Shows how F5 load balancers protect stored service account passwords and how those values can be recovered after a compromise.
PasswordsCon·39 min
John-André Bjørkhaug
Follows a red team engagement that clones access cards and reaches a server room guarding a national power grid.
PasswordsCon·39 min
Marluan "Izzny" Cleary
Shows how HMAC misuse, weak keys, replay gaps and timing leaks can break authentication in systems that look secure.
PasswordsCon·21 min
Travis Moore
Explains how botnets generate high-entropy synthetic passwords to flood logins and evade breach-based detection.
PasswordsCon·46 min
Dwayne McDaniel
Explains how non-human identities and hardcoded secrets create risk, and how to raise the issue with developers.