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SANS Network Security: Las Vegas Sept 4-9.
Handler on Duty:
Johannes Ullrich
Threat Level:
green
Date
Author
Title
2024-08-07
Guy Bruneau
Same Scripts, Different Day: What My DShield Honeypot Taught Me About the Importance of Security Fundamentals [Guest Diary]
2024-07-13
Didier Stevens
16-bit Hash Collisions in .xls Spreadsheets
2024-06-26
Guy Bruneau
What Setting Live Traps for Cybercriminals Taught Me About Security [Guest Diary]
2024-02-28
Johannes Ullrich
Exploit Attempts for Unknown Password Reset Vulnerability
2024-01-17
Jesse La Grew
Number Usage in Passwords
2024-01-06
Xavier Mertens
Are you sure of your password?
2023-10-29
Guy Bruneau
Spam or Phishing? Looking for Credentials & Passwords
2023-10-15
Guy Bruneau
Domain Name Used as Password Captured by DShield Sensor
2023-09-29
Xavier Mertens
Are You Still Storing Passwords In Plain Text Files?
2023-09-05
Jesse La Grew
Common usernames submitted to honeypots
2023-09-02
Jesse La Grew
What is the origin of passwords submitted to honeypots?
2023-08-10
Bojan Zdrnja
Some things never change ? such as SQL Authentication ?encryption?
2023-08-04
Xavier Mertens
Are Leaked Credentials Dumps Used by Attackers?
2023-06-05
Johannes Ullrich
Brute Forcing Simple Archive Passwords
2023-04-19
Rob VandenBrink
Taking a Bite Out of Password Expiry Helpdesk Calls
2023-02-18
Guy Bruneau
Spear Phishing Handlers for Username/Password
2022-08-13
Guy Bruneau
Phishing HTML Attachment as Voicemail Audio Transcription
2022-05-17
Xavier Mertens
Use Your Browser Internal Password Vault... or Not?
2022-03-10
Xavier Mertens
Credentials Leaks on VirusTotal
2022-02-13
Guy Bruneau
DHL Spear Phishing to Capture Username/Password
2021-11-15
Rob VandenBrink
Changing your AD Password Using the Clipboard - Not as Easy as You'd Think!
2021-05-14
Xavier Mertens
"Open" Access to Industrial Systems Interface is Also Far From Zero
2021-04-24
Guy Bruneau
Base64 Hashes Used in Web Scanning
2021-01-06
Johannes Ullrich
Scans for Zyxel Backdoors are Commencing.
2020-07-26
Didier Stevens
Cracking Maldoc VBA Project Passwords
2020-07-13
Didier Stevens
VBA Project Passwords
2020-06-10
Brad Duncan
Job application-themed malspam pushes ZLoader
2020-04-06
Didier Stevens
Password Protected Malicious Excel Files
2019-11-01
Didier Stevens
Tip: Password Managers and 2FA
2018-12-17
Didier Stevens
Password Protected ZIP with Maldoc
2018-08-22
Deborah Hale
Email/password Frustration
2018-07-12
Johannes Ullrich
New Extortion Tricks: Now Including Your Password!
2017-11-28
Xavier Mertens
Apple High Sierra Uses a Passwordless Root Account
2017-05-17
Richard Porter
Wait What? We don?t have to change passwords every 90 days?
2017-04-26
Johannes Ullrich
If there are some unexploited MSSQL Servers With Weak Passwords Left: They got you now (again)
2017-04-10
Didier Stevens
Password History: Insights Shared by a Reader
2017-02-07
Johannes Ullrich
My Password is [taco] Using Emojis for Stronger Passwords
2016-12-07
Xavier Mertens
The Passwords You Should Never Use
2016-09-15
Xavier Mertens
In Need of a OTP Manager Soon?
2016-07-21
Didier Stevens
Practice ntds.dit File
2016-06-20
Xavier Mertens
Using Your Password Manager to Monitor Data Leaks
2015-06-26
Daniel Wesemann
Cisco default credentials - again!
2014-09-19
Guy Bruneau
Added today in oclhashcat 131 Django [Default Auth] (PBKDF2 SHA256 Rounds Salt) Support - http://hashcat.net/hashcat/
2014-08-22
Richard Porter
OCLHashCat 1.30 Released
2014-08-06
Johannes Ullrich
All Passwords have been lost: What's next?
2014-05-22
Rob VandenBrink
Another Site Breached - Time to Change your Passwords! (If you can that is)
2013-11-22
Rick Wanner
Tales of Password Reuse
2013-07-21
Guy Bruneau
Ubuntu Forums Security Breach
2013-06-11
Swa Frantzen
Store passwords the right way in your application
2013-05-14
Jim Clausing
So what passwords are those ssh scanners trying?
2013-03-18
Kevin Shortt
Cisco IOS Type 4 Password Issue: http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityResponse/cisco-sr-20130318-type4
2013-01-18
Russ McRee
Interesting reads for Friday 18 JAN 2013
2013-01-04
Daniel Wesemann
Blue for Reset?
2012-11-15
Jim Clausing
Another month another password disclosure breach
2012-07-16
Jim Clausing
An analysis of the Yahoo! passwords
2012-06-06
Jim Clausing
Potential leak of 6.5+ million LinkedIn password hashes
2012-05-22
Johannes Ullrich
nmap 6 released
2012-01-03
Rick Wanner
Analysis of the Stratfor Password List
2011-10-10
Tom Liston
What's In A Name?
2011-08-10
Johannes Ullrich
Theoretical and Practical Password Entropy
2011-06-28
Johannes Ullrich
Hashing Passwords
2011-05-30
Johannes Ullrich
Allied Telesis Passwords Leaked
2010-12-28
John Bambenek
Mozilla Notifies of Relatively Minor Security Breach
2010-12-15
Manuel Humberto Santander Pelaez
HP StorageWorks P2000 G3 MSA hardcoded user
2010-12-13
Deborah Hale
Gawker Media Breach of Security
2010-11-26
Mark Hofman
Using password cracking as metric/indicator for the organisation's security posture
2010-08-27
Mark Hofman
FTP Brute Password guessing attacks
2010-02-25
Chris Carboni
Pass The Hash
2010-02-02
Johannes Ullrich
Twitter Mass Password Reset due to Phishing
2009-12-04
Daniel Wesemann
The economics of security advice (MSFT research paper)
2009-11-02
Daniel Wesemann
Password rules: Change them every 25 years
2009-10-23
Johannes Ullrich
Little new tool: reversing md5/sha1 hashes http://isc.sans.org/tools/reversehash.html
2008-09-22
Jim Clausing
Lessons learned from the Palin (and other) account hijacks
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