Kevin Mitnick Demos Password Hack: No Link Click or Attachments Necessary

Stu Sjouwerman | Mar 25, 2019

In this shocking demonstration Kevin Mitnick, KnowBe4's Chief Hacking Officer, shows how hackers can steal a user’s password hash without the user having to click a hyperlink or open an attachment. This is the stuff nightmares are made of! Find out the details of how this hack works and, more importantly, how to prevent it by watching the on-demand webinar 10 Incredible Ways You Can Be Hacked Through Email & How To Stop the Bad Guys.

Topics: Social Engineering Password Security

How vulnerable is your network to hacked user passwords?

25% of employees use the same password for all logins. What if that password is available on the dark web? A massive amount of passwords are compromised due to data breaches and used by cybercriminals for attacks. KnowBe4’s free Breached Password Test (BPT) checks to see if your users are currently using passwords that are in publicly available breaches associated with your domain. BPT checks against your Active Directory and reports compromised passwords in use right now so that you can take action immediately!

Here's how it works:

Checks to see if your company domains have been part of a data breach that included passwords
Checks to see if any of those breached passwords are currently in use in your Active Directory
Does not show/report on the actual passwords of accounts
Just download the install and run it
Results in a few minutes!

PS: Don't like to click on redirected buttons? Cut & Paste this link in your browser:

https://www.knowbe4.com/breached-password-test

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ABOUT STU SJOUWERMAN

Stu Sjouwerman (pronounced “shower-man”) is the Founder and Executive Chairman of KnowBe4, Inc., which hosts the world’s most popular integrated security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, with over 54,000 organization customers and more than 50 million users. A serial entrepreneur and data security expert with 30 years in the IT industry, Stu was the co-founder of Inc. 500 company Sunbelt Software, a multiple award-winning anti-malware software company that was acquired in 2010.

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