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Date
Author
Title
USER AWARENESS
2012-07-14
Tony Carothers
User Awareness and Education
USER
2024-10-16/a>
Johannes Ullrich
The Top 10 Not So Common SSH Usernames and Passwords
2024-02-28/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Exploit Attempts for Unknown Password Reset Vulnerability
2024-01-24/a>
Johannes Ullrich
How Bad User Interfaces Make Security Tools Harmful
2024-01-08/a>
Jesse La Grew
What is that User Agent?
2023-09-05/a>
Jesse La Grew
Common usernames submitted to honeypots
2021-09-24/a>
Xavier Mertens
Keep an Eye on Your Users Mobile Devices (Simple Inventory)
2021-04-24/a>
Guy Bruneau
Base64 Hashes Used in Web Scanning
2021-03-02/a>
Russ McRee
Adversary Simulation with Sim
2019-07-25/a>
Rob VandenBrink
When Users Attack! Users (and Admins) Thwarting Security Controls
2019-07-05/a>
Didier Stevens
A "Stream O" Maldoc
2019-07-01/a>
Didier Stevens
Maldoc: Payloads in User Forms
2018-05-27/a>
Guy Bruneau
Capture and Analysis of User Agents
2018-01-01/a>
Didier Stevens
What is new?
2014-04-05/a>
Jim Clausing
Those strange e-mails with URLs in them can lead to Android malware
2013-01-15/a>
Rob VandenBrink
When Disabling IE6 (or Java, or whatever) is not an Option...
2012-07-14/a>
Tony Carothers
User Awareness and Education
2012-04-05/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Evil hides everywhere: Web Application Exploits in Headers
2011-08-26/a>
Daniel Wesemann
User Agent 007
2010-10-19/a>
Rob VandenBrink
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 19 - Remote User VPN Tunnels - to Split or not to Split?
2010-10-19/a>
Rob VandenBrink
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 19 - Remote User VPN Access – Are things getting too easy, or too hard?
2009-05-28/a>
Jim Clausing
More new volatility plugins
2008-09-18/a>
Bojan Zdrnja
Monitoring HTTP User-Agent fields
AWARENESS
2023-10-29/a>
Guy Bruneau
Spam or Phishing? Looking for Credentials & Passwords
2021-05-29/a>
Guy Bruneau
Spear-phishing Email Targeting Outlook Mail Clients
2019-03-06/a>
Johannes Ullrich
March Edition of Ouch! Newsletter: Securely Disposing Mobile Devices https://www.sans.org/security-awareness-training/resources/disposing-your-mobile-device
2017-09-18/a>
Johannes Ullrich
SANS Securingthehuman posted a follow up to their Equifax breach webcast: https://securingthehuman.sans.org/blog/2017/09/15/equifax-webcast-follow-up
2017-08-13/a>
Didier Stevens
The Good Phishing Email
2017-02-15/a>
Xavier Mertens
How was your stay at the Hotel La Playa?
2017-01-11/a>
Johannes Ullrich
January 2017 Edition of Ouch! Security Awareness Newsletter Released: https://securingthehuman.sans.org/ouch
2016-04-02/a>
Russell Eubanks
Why Can't We Be Friends?
2015-10-27/a>
Xavier Mertens
The "Yes, but..." syndrome
2015-10-18/a>
Russell Eubanks
Security Awareness for Security Professionals
2015-10-17/a>
Russell Eubanks
CIS Critical Security Controls - Version 6.0
2015-09-23/a>
Daniel Wesemann
Making our users unlearn what we taught them
2015-05-07/a>
Chris Mohan
Security Awareness? How do you keep your staff safe?
2014-07-02/a>
Johannes Ullrich
July Ouch! Security Awareness Newsletter Released. E-mail Do's and Don'ts http://www.securingthehuman.org/resources/newsletters/ouch/2014#july2014
2014-02-05/a>
Johannes Ullrich
SANS Ouch Security Awareness Newsletter What is Malware http://www.securingthehuman.org/ouch
2013-10-01/a>
Adrien de Beaupre
CSAM! Send us your logs!
2013-08-07/a>
Johannes Ullrich
New edition of the Ouch! Security Awareness Newsletter is out: http://www.securingthehuman.org/resources/newsletters/ouch/2013
2012-12-18/a>
Rob VandenBrink
All I Want for Christmas is to Not Get Hacked !
2012-10-30/a>
Mark Hofman
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 30 - DSD 35 mitigating controls
2012-10-29/a>
Kevin Shortt
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 29 - Clear Desk: The Unacquainted Standard
2012-10-26/a>
Russ McRee
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 26 - Attackers use trusted domain to propagate Citadel Zeus variant
2012-10-25/a>
Richard Porter
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 25 - Pro Audio & Video Packets on the Wire
2012-10-24/a>
Russ McRee
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 24 - A Standard for Information Security Incident Management - ISO 27035
2012-10-23/a>
Rob VandenBrink
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 23: Character Encoding Standards - ASCII and Successors
2012-10-21/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 22: Connectors
2012-10-19/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 19: Standard log formats and CEE.
2012-10-18/a>
Rob VandenBrink
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 18 - Vendor Standards: The vSphere Hardening Guide
2012-10-17/a>
Rob VandenBrink
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 17 - A Standard for Risk Management - ISO 27005
2012-10-16/a>
Richard Porter
CyberAwareness Month - Day 15, Standards Body Soup (pt2), Same Soup Different Cook.
2012-10-16/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 16: W3C and HTML
2012-10-14/a>
Pedro Bueno
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 14 - Poor Man's File Analysis System - Part 1
2012-10-13/a>
Guy Bruneau
New Poll - Cyber Security Awareness Month Activities 2012 - https://isc.sans.edu/poll.html
2012-10-12/a>
Mark Hofman
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 12 PCI DSS
2012-10-11/a>
Rob VandenBrink
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 11 - Vendor Agnostic Standards (Center for Internet Security)
2012-10-10/a>
Kevin Shortt
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 10 - Standard Sudo - Part Two
2012-10-09/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Cyber Security Awreness Month - Day 9 - Request for Comment (RFC)
2012-10-08/a>
Mark Hofman
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 8 ISO 27001
2012-10-07/a>
Tony Carothers
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 7 - Rollup Review of CSAM Week 1
2012-10-06/a>
Manuel Humberto Santander Pelaez
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 6 - NERC: The standard that enforces security on power SCADA
2012-10-05/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 5: Standards Body Soup, So many Flavors in the bowl.
2012-10-04/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 4: Crypto Standards
2012-10-03/a>
Kevin Shortt
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 3 - Standard Sudo - Part One
2012-10-02/a>
Russ McRee
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 2 - PCI Security Standard: Mobile Payment Acceptance Security Guidelines
2012-10-01/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Cyber Security Awareness Month
2012-07-14/a>
Tony Carothers
User Awareness and Education
2011-10-29/a>
Richard Porter
The Sub Critical Control? Evidence Collection
2011-10-28/a>
Russ McRee
Critical Control 19: Data Recovery Capability
2011-10-28/a>
Daniel Wesemann
Critical Control 20: Security Skills Assessment and Training to fill Gaps
2011-10-27/a>
Mark Baggett
Critical Control 18: Incident Response Capabilities
2011-10-26/a>
Rick Wanner
Critical Control 17:Penetration Tests and Red Team Exercises
2011-10-17/a>
Rob VandenBrink
Critical Control 11: Account Monitoring and Control
2011-10-13/a>
Guy Bruneau
Critical Control 10: Continuous Vulnerability Assessment and Remediation
2011-10-12/a>
Kevin Shortt
Critical Control 8 - Controlled Use of Administrative Privileges
2011-10-11/a>
Swa Frantzen
Critical Control 7 - Application Software Security
2011-10-10/a>
Jim Clausing
Critical Control 6 - Maintenance, Monitoring, and Analysis of Security Audit Logs
2011-10-07/a>
Mark Hofman
Critical Control 5 - Boundary Defence
2011-10-04/a>
Rob VandenBrink
Critical Control 2 - Inventory of Authorized and Unauthorized Software
2011-10-04/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Critical Control 3 - Secure Configurations for Hardware and Software on Laptops, Workstations and Servers
2011-10-03/a>
Mark Hofman
Critical Control 1 - Inventory of Authorized and Unauthorized Devices
2011-10-03/a>
Mark Baggett
What are the 20 Critical Controls?
2011-10-03/a>
Tom Liston
Security 101 : Security Basics in 140 Characters Or Less
2011-10-02/a>
Mark Hofman
Cyber Security Awareness Month Day 1/2 - Introduction to the controls
2011-10-02/a>
Mark Hofman
Cyber Security Awareness Month Day 1/2 - Schedule
2011-09-21/a>
Mark Hofman
October 2011 Cyber Security Awareness Month
2011-09-15/a>
Johannes Ullrich
September OUCH! awareness newsletter released - How to use social networking sites safely. http://bit.ly/ja6TMH
2011-08-17/a>
Johannes Ullrich
August edition of security awareness newsletter OUCH! released. Focus: Updating your Software http://t.co/ftRVetZ
2011-06-15/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Latest issue of "Ouch!" is out http://www.securingthehuman.org/resources/newsletters/ouch
2011-05-31/a>
Chris Mohan
Getting the IT security word out there to the rest of the world
2011-05-21/a>
Daniel Wesemann
Weekend reading
2011-04-13/a>
Johannes Ullrich
April issue of SANS Security Awareness Newsletter is out http://www.securingthehuman.org/resources/ouch
2010-10-31/a>
Marcus Sachs
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 31 - Tying it all together
2010-10-30/a>
Guy Bruneau
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 30 - Role of the network team
2010-10-29/a>
Manuel Humberto Santander Pelaez
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 29- Role of the office geek
2010-10-28/a>
Rick Wanner
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 27 - Social Media use in the office
2010-10-28/a>
Tony Carothers
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 28 - Role of the employee
2010-10-26/a>
Pedro Bueno
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 26 - Sharing Office Files
2010-10-25/a>
Kevin Shortt
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 25 - Using Home Computers for Work
2010-10-24/a>
Swa Frantzen
Cyber Security Awarenes Month - Day 24 - Using work computers at home
2010-10-23/a>
Mark Hofman
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 23 - The Importance of compliance
2010-10-22/a>
Daniel Wesemann
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 22 - Security of removable media
2010-10-21/a>
Chris Carboni
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 21 - Impossible Requests from the Boss
2010-10-20/a>
Jim Clausing
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 20 - Securing Mobile Devices
2010-10-19/a>
Rob VandenBrink
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 19 - Remote Access Tools
2010-10-19/a>
Rob VandenBrink
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 19 - Remote User VPN Tunnels - to Split or not to Split?
2010-10-19/a>
Rob VandenBrink
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 19 - VPN Architectures – SSL or IPSec?
2010-10-19/a>
Rob VandenBrink
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 19 - Remote User VPN Access – Are things getting too easy, or too hard?
2010-10-19/a>
Rob VandenBrink
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 19 - VPN and Remote Access Tools
2010-10-18/a>
Manuel Humberto Santander Pelaez
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 18 - What you should tell your boss when there's a crisis
2010-10-17/a>
Stephen Hall
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 17 - What a boss should and should not have access to
2010-10-15/a>
Marcus Sachs
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 15 - What Teachers Need to Know About Their Students
2010-10-15/a>
Guy Bruneau
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 16 - Securing a donated computer
2010-10-14/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 14 - Securing a public computer
2010-10-13/a>
Deborah Hale
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 13 - Online Bullying
2010-10-12/a>
Scott Fendley
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 12 - Protecting and Managing Your Digital Identity On Social Media Sites
2010-10-11/a>
Rick Wanner
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 11 - Safe Browsing for Teens
2010-10-10/a>
Kevin Liston
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 10 - Safe browsing for pre-teens
2010-10-09/a>
Kevin Shortt
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 9 - Disposal of an Old Computer
2010-10-08/a>
Rick Wanner
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 8 - Patch Management and System Updates
2010-10-06/a>
Rob VandenBrink
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 7 - Remote Access and Monitoring Tools
2010-10-06/a>
Marcus Sachs
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 6 - Computer Monitoring Tools
2010-10-05/a>
Rick Wanner
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 5 - Sites you should stay away from
2010-10-04/a>
Daniel Wesemann
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 4 - Managing EMail
2010-10-03/a>
Adrien de Beaupre
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 3 - Recognizing phishing and online scams
2010-10-02/a>
Mark Hofman
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 2 - Securing the Family Network
2010-10-01/a>
Marcus Sachs
Cyber Security Awareness Month - 2010
2010-10-01/a>
Marcus Sachs
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 1 - Securing the Family PC
2010-08-08/a>
Marcus Sachs
Thinking about Cyber Security Awareness Month in October
2010-05-07/a>
Rob VandenBrink
Security Awareness – Many Audiences, Many Messages (Part 2)
2010-05-02/a>
Mari Nichols
Zbot Social Engineering
2010-04-07/a>
Rob VandenBrink
The Many Paths to Security Awareness
2010-03-07/a>
Mari Nichols
DHS issues Cybersecurity challenge
2010-02-20/a>
Mari Nichols
Is "Green IT" Defeating Security?
2009-10-29/a>
Kyle Haugsness
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 29 - dns port 53
2009-10-28/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 28 - ntp (123/udp)
2009-10-25/a>
Lorna Hutcheson
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 25 - Port 80 and 443
2009-10-22/a>
Adrien de Beaupre
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 22 port 502 TCP - Modbus
2009-10-21/a>
Pedro Bueno
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 21 - Port 135
2009-10-19/a>
Daniel Wesemann
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 19 - ICMP
2009-10-18/a>
Mari Nichols
Computer Security Awareness Month - Day 18 - Telnet an oldie but a goodie
2009-10-16/a>
Adrien de Beaupre
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 16 - Port 1521 - Oracle TNS Listener
2009-10-11/a>
Mark Hofman
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 12 Ports 161/162 Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
2009-10-09/a>
Rob VandenBrink
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 9 - Port 3389/tcp (RDP)
2009-10-06/a>
Adrien de Beaupre
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 6 ports 67&68 udp - bootp and dhcp
2009-10-05/a>
Adrien de Beaupre
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 5 port 31337
2009-10-02/a>
Stephen Hall
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 2 - Port 0
2009-09-20/a>
Mari Nichols
Insider Threat and Security Awareness
2009-06-20/a>
Scott Fendley
Situational Awareness: Spam Crisis and China
2008-11-04/a>
Marcus Sachs
Cyber Security Awareness Month 2008 - Summary and Links
2008-11-03/a>
Joel Esler
Day 34 -- Feeding The Lessons Learned Back to the Preparation Phase
2008-11-02/a>
Mari Nichols
Day 33 - Working with Management to Improve Processes
2008-11-01/a>
Koon Yaw Tan
Day 32 - What Should I Make Public?
2008-10-31/a>
Rick Wanner
Day 31 - Legal Awareness
2008-10-30/a>
Kevin Liston
Day 30 - Applying Patches and Updates
2008-10-29/a>
Deborah Hale
Day 29 - Should I Switch Software Vendors?
2008-10-28/a>
Jason Lam
Day 28 - Avoiding Finger Pointing and the Blame Game
2008-10-27/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Day 27 - Validation via Vulnerability Scanning
2008-10-25/a>
Koon Yaw Tan
Day 25 - Finding and Removing Hidden Files and Directories
2008-10-25/a>
Rick Wanner
Day 26 - Restoring Systems from Backup
2008-10-24/a>
Stephen Hall
Day 24 - Cleaning Email Servers and Clients
2008-10-22/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Day 22 - Wiping Disks and Media
2008-10-22/a>
Chris Carboni
Day 23 - Turning off Unused Services
2008-10-21/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Day 21 - Removing Bots, Keyloggers, and Spyware
2008-10-20/a>
Raul Siles
Day 20 - Eradicating a Rootkit
2008-10-19/a>
Lorna Hutcheson
Day 19 - Eradication: Forensic Analysis Tools - What Happened?
2008-10-17/a>
Patrick Nolan
Day 17 - Containing a DNS Hijacking
2008-10-17/a>
Rick Wanner
Day 18 - Containing Other Incidents
2008-10-16/a>
Mark Hofman
Day 16 - Containing a Malware Outbreak
2008-10-15/a>
Rick Wanner
Day 15 - Containing the Damage From a Lost or Stolen Laptop
2008-10-14/a>
Swa Frantzen
Day 14 - Containment: a Personal IdentityTheft Incident
2008-10-13/a>
Adrien de Beaupre
Day 13 - Containment: Containing on Production Systems Such as a Web Server
2008-10-12/a>
Mari Nichols
Day 12 Containment: Gathering Evidence That Can be Used in Court
2008-10-11/a>
Stephen Hall
Day 11 - Identification: Other Methods of Identifying an Incident
2008-10-10/a>
Marcus Sachs
Day 10 - Identification: Using Your Help Desk to Identify Security Incidents
2008-10-09/a>
Marcus Sachs
Day 9 - Identification: Log and Audit Analysis
2008-10-08/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Day 8 - Global Incident Awareness
2008-10-07/a>
Kyle Haugsness
Day 7 - Identification: Host-based Intrusion Detection Systems
2008-10-06/a>
Jim Clausing
Day 6 - Network-based Intrusion Detection Systems
2008-10-05/a>
Stephen Hall
Day 5 - Identification: Events versus Incidents
2008-10-04/a>
Marcus Sachs
Day 4 - Preparation: What Goes Into a Response Kit
2008-10-03/a>
Jason Lam
Day 3 - Preparation: Building Checklists
2008-10-02/a>
Marcus Sachs
Day 2 - Preparation: Building a Response Team
2008-10-01/a>
Marcus Sachs
Day 1 - Preparation: Policies, Management Support, and User Awareness
2008-09-30/a>
Marcus Sachs
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Daily Topics
2008-09-21/a>
Mari Nichols
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