Posts Tagged ‘Hacking’
Cracking passwords & why L33t!fied passwords are bad | Alexei Doudkine
Watch this demo of how a hacker who has broken into your machine can quickly and easily get your password hashes, take them offline and crack them to retrieve your original password. In this talk, Alexei discusses how passwords are stored in Windows, some techniques real-world hackers use to crack password hashes and what you…
Read MoreHow to go on the Cyber-Offence (before online attackers do) – Troy Hunt | DDD Melbourne
In this session, Troy Hunt – Security MVP and founder of ASafaWeb – takes us on a journey through cyber security. Cyber-attacks on the web are increasingly common and are having greater impact than ever. However, they’re almost always exploiting the same common vulnerabilities that we – the developers – keep building into the software.…
Read More‘Hack Yourself First’ and Other Web Security Tips for Web Developers with Troy Hunt
SSW’s Damian Brady sits down with Troy Hunt, a Microsoft Developer Security MVP, to talk web security. In this interview, Troy takes us through some of the most important security aspects of the web and what web developers should be thinking about when developing. They discuss strategies and implementation details that should be considered to…
Read MoreHow Your Website is Being Pwned While You’re Not Looking with Troy Hunt – DDD Sydney 2012
We all invest a lot of effort in the quality of our web development and (hopefully) security is one of those practices we bake in from the ground up. Thing is though, like most things in software development, times change and many of the practices we considered secure yesterday aren’t necessarily so today. Hardware gets…
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