The ability to quickly crack password hashes indicates that enterprise admin passwords are not very strong, leaving networks vulnerable. Two-factor authentication can provide added security.
Clay uses hacker skills to outsmart a hacker and crack a password to gain access to a computer system.
A security professional discovers a zero-day exploit while analyzing code used to exploit the Samba service, leading him to report the vulnerability to the Samba team for a fix.
The attackers found a staging server and attempted to exploit vulnerabilities using a tool called Mimikatz, which digs passwords out of memory, to escalate privileges and access other servers.
The speaker reminisces about his past experiences with hacking and illegal Trojan horses in high school, praising the sophisticated hacking abilities of anonymous hackers.