Troy Hunt explains how he turned a dump of almost 5 million user records into a public service that allows users to check if their email address has been part of a breach; he also offers future notifications if their email shows up in any future breaches.
Kyle discovered that by plugging an external hard drive into the router, he was able to find sensitive information such as admin passwords and access all the files on the connected hard drive from anywhere in the world.
A website's weak password policy that only generates five-character passwords made it vulnerable to brute force attacks, allowing hackers to gain access to user accounts by resetting their passwords and guessing the five-character password generated by the site.
Offcrack is a tool that performs brute force password cracking by searching through millions of hashes to find the matching password in Windows, making it an effective and popular tool for recovering lost or forgotten passwords.
A hacker attempts to gain access to a computer's network by cracking the password and accessing other computers using the same username and password. The password hash is retrieved and used in an attempt to crack the password.