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SANS Network Security: Las Vegas Sept 4-9.
Handler on Duty:
Xavier Mertens
Threat Level:
green
Date
Author
Title
FTP BRUTE PASSWORD GUESSING
2010-08-27
Mark Hofman
FTP Brute Password guessing attacks
FTP
2023-03-07/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Hackers Love This VSCode Extension: What You Can Do to Stay Safe
2022-12-03/a>
Guy Bruneau
Linux LOLBins Applications Available in Windows
2022-01-20/a>
Xavier Mertens
RedLine Stealer Delivered Through FTP
2019-01-02/a>
Xavier Mertens
Malicious Script Leaking Data via FTP
2010-12-02/a>
Kevin Johnson
ProFTPD distribution servers compromised
2010-08-27/a>
Mark Hofman
FTP Brute Password guessing attacks
2009-10-04/a>
Guy Bruneau
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 4 - Port 20/21 - FTP-data/FTP
2009-09-04/a>
Adrien de Beaupre
Vulnerabilities (plural) in MS IIS FTP Service 5.0, 5.1. 6.0, 7.0
2009-02-11/a>
Robert Danford
ProFTPd SQL Authentication Vulnerability exploit activity
2008-06-01/a>
Mark Hofman
Free Yahoo email account! Sign me up, Ok well maybe not.
BRUTE
2024-05-15/a>
Rob VandenBrink
Got MFA? If not, Now is the Time!
2021-05-07/a>
Daniel Wesemann
Exposed Azure Storage Containers
2018-01-09/a>
Jim Clausing
Are you watching for brute force attacks on IPv6?
2017-08-07/a>
Xavier Mertens
Increase of phpMyAdmin scans
2017-04-26/a>
Johannes Ullrich
If there are some unexploited MSSQL Servers With Weak Passwords Left: They got you now (again)
2015-06-23/a>
Kevin Shortt
XOR DDOS Mitigation and Analysis
2015-06-22/a>
Johannes Ullrich
SMTP Brute Forcing
2014-09-07/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Odd Persistent Password Bruteforcing
2014-07-23/a>
Johannes Ullrich
New Feature: "Live" SSH Brute Force Logs and New Kippo Client
2014-07-22/a>
Daniel Wesemann
WordPress brute force attack via wp.getUsersBlogs
2013-12-02/a>
Richard Porter
Reports of higher than normal SSH Attacks
2013-07-31/a>
Johannes Ullrich
POP3 Server Brute Forcing Attempts Using Polycom Credentials
2013-06-23/a>
Kevin Liston
Is SSH no more secure than telnet?
2012-12-16/a>
Tony Carothers
SSH Brute Force on Non-Standard Ports
2011-12-04/a>
Guy Bruneau
SSH Password Brute Forcing may be on the Rise
2011-11-06/a>
Tom Liston
New, odd SSH brute force behavior
2011-08-02/a>
Mark Hofman
SSH Brute Force attacks
2011-07-31/a>
Daniel Wesemann
Anatomy of a Unix breach
2011-07-17/a>
Mark Hofman
SSH Brute Force
2010-09-07/a>
Bojan Zdrnja
SSH password authentication insight and analysis by DRG
2010-08-27/a>
Mark Hofman
FTP Brute Password guessing attacks
2010-06-18/a>
Adrien de Beaupre
Distributed SSH Brute Force Attempts on the rise again
2010-06-18/a>
Tom Liston
IMPORTANT INFORMATION: Distributed SSH Brute Force Attacks
2010-01-01/a>
G. N. White
Dealing With Unwanted SSH Bruteforcing
2009-11-30/a>
Bojan Zdrnja
Distributed Wordpress admin account cracking
2009-04-17/a>
Daniel Wesemann
Guess what? SSH again!
2009-03-30/a>
Daniel Wesemann
Watch your Internet routers!
2009-01-30/a>
Mark Hofman
Request for info - Scan and webmail
2008-10-02/a>
Kyle Haugsness
Low, slow, distributed SSH username brute forcing
2008-06-09/a>
Scott Fendley
So Where Are Those OpenSSH Key-based Attacks?
2008-05-12/a>
Scott Fendley
Brute-force SSH Attacks on the Rise
PASSWORD
2024-08-07/a>
Guy Bruneau
Same Scripts, Different Day: What My DShield Honeypot Taught Me About the Importance of Security Fundamentals [Guest Diary]
2024-07-13/a>
Didier Stevens
16-bit Hash Collisions in .xls Spreadsheets
2024-06-26/a>
Guy Bruneau
What Setting Live Traps for Cybercriminals Taught Me About Security [Guest Diary]
2024-02-28/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Exploit Attempts for Unknown Password Reset Vulnerability
2024-01-17/a>
Jesse La Grew
Number Usage in Passwords
2024-01-06/a>
Xavier Mertens
Are you sure of your password?
2023-10-29/a>
Guy Bruneau
Spam or Phishing? Looking for Credentials & Passwords
2023-10-15/a>
Guy Bruneau
Domain Name Used as Password Captured by DShield Sensor
2023-09-29/a>
Xavier Mertens
Are You Still Storing Passwords In Plain Text Files?
2023-09-05/a>
Jesse La Grew
Common usernames submitted to honeypots
2023-09-02/a>
Jesse La Grew
What is the origin of passwords submitted to honeypots?
2023-08-10/a>
Bojan Zdrnja
Some things never change ? such as SQL Authentication ?encryption?
2023-08-04/a>
Xavier Mertens
Are Leaked Credentials Dumps Used by Attackers?
2023-06-05/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Brute Forcing Simple Archive Passwords
2023-04-19/a>
Rob VandenBrink
Taking a Bite Out of Password Expiry Helpdesk Calls
2023-02-18/a>
Guy Bruneau
Spear Phishing Handlers for Username/Password
2022-08-13/a>
Guy Bruneau
Phishing HTML Attachment as Voicemail Audio Transcription
2022-05-17/a>
Xavier Mertens
Use Your Browser Internal Password Vault... or Not?
2022-03-10/a>
Xavier Mertens
Credentials Leaks on VirusTotal
2022-02-13/a>
Guy Bruneau
DHL Spear Phishing to Capture Username/Password
2021-11-15/a>
Rob VandenBrink
Changing your AD Password Using the Clipboard - Not as Easy as You'd Think!
2021-05-14/a>
Xavier Mertens
"Open" Access to Industrial Systems Interface is Also Far From Zero
2021-04-24/a>
Guy Bruneau
Base64 Hashes Used in Web Scanning
2021-01-06/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Scans for Zyxel Backdoors are Commencing.
2020-07-26/a>
Didier Stevens
Cracking Maldoc VBA Project Passwords
2020-07-13/a>
Didier Stevens
VBA Project Passwords
2020-06-10/a>
Brad Duncan
Job application-themed malspam pushes ZLoader
2020-04-06/a>
Didier Stevens
Password Protected Malicious Excel Files
2019-11-01/a>
Didier Stevens
Tip: Password Managers and 2FA
2018-12-17/a>
Didier Stevens
Password Protected ZIP with Maldoc
2018-08-22/a>
Deborah Hale
Email/password Frustration
2018-07-12/a>
Johannes Ullrich
New Extortion Tricks: Now Including Your Password!
2017-11-28/a>
Xavier Mertens
Apple High Sierra Uses a Passwordless Root Account
2017-05-17/a>
Richard Porter
Wait What? We don?t have to change passwords every 90 days?
2017-04-26/a>
Johannes Ullrich
If there are some unexploited MSSQL Servers With Weak Passwords Left: They got you now (again)
2017-04-10/a>
Didier Stevens
Password History: Insights Shared by a Reader
2017-02-07/a>
Johannes Ullrich
My Password is [taco] Using Emojis for Stronger Passwords
2016-12-07/a>
Xavier Mertens
The Passwords You Should Never Use
2016-09-15/a>
Xavier Mertens
In Need of a OTP Manager Soon?
2016-07-21/a>
Didier Stevens
Practice ntds.dit File
2016-06-20/a>
Xavier Mertens
Using Your Password Manager to Monitor Data Leaks
2015-06-26/a>
Daniel Wesemann
Cisco default credentials - again!
2014-09-19/a>
Guy Bruneau
Added today in oclhashcat 131 Django [Default Auth] (PBKDF2 SHA256 Rounds Salt) Support - http://hashcat.net/hashcat/
2014-08-22/a>
Richard Porter
OCLHashCat 1.30 Released
2014-08-06/a>
Johannes Ullrich
All Passwords have been lost: What's next?
2014-05-22/a>
Rob VandenBrink
Another Site Breached - Time to Change your Passwords! (If you can that is)
2013-11-22/a>
Rick Wanner
Tales of Password Reuse
2013-07-21/a>
Guy Bruneau
Ubuntu Forums Security Breach
2013-06-11/a>
Swa Frantzen
Store passwords the right way in your application
2013-05-14/a>
Jim Clausing
So what passwords are those ssh scanners trying?
2013-03-18/a>
Kevin Shortt
Cisco IOS Type 4 Password Issue: http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityResponse/cisco-sr-20130318-type4
2013-01-18/a>
Russ McRee
Interesting reads for Friday 18 JAN 2013
2013-01-04/a>
Daniel Wesemann
Blue for Reset?
2012-11-15/a>
Jim Clausing
Another month another password disclosure breach
2012-07-16/a>
Jim Clausing
An analysis of the Yahoo! passwords
2012-06-06/a>
Jim Clausing
Potential leak of 6.5+ million LinkedIn password hashes
2012-05-22/a>
Johannes Ullrich
nmap 6 released
2012-01-03/a>
Rick Wanner
Analysis of the Stratfor Password List
2011-10-10/a>
Tom Liston
What's In A Name?
2011-08-10/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Theoretical and Practical Password Entropy
2011-06-28/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Hashing Passwords
2011-05-30/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Allied Telesis Passwords Leaked
2010-12-28/a>
John Bambenek
Mozilla Notifies of Relatively Minor Security Breach
2010-12-15/a>
Manuel Humberto Santander Pelaez
HP StorageWorks P2000 G3 MSA hardcoded user
2010-12-13/a>
Deborah Hale
Gawker Media Breach of Security
2010-11-26/a>
Mark Hofman
Using password cracking as metric/indicator for the organisation's security posture
2010-08-27/a>
Mark Hofman
FTP Brute Password guessing attacks
2010-02-25/a>
Chris Carboni
Pass The Hash
2010-02-02/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Twitter Mass Password Reset due to Phishing
2009-12-04/a>
Daniel Wesemann
The economics of security advice (MSFT research paper)
2009-11-02/a>
Daniel Wesemann
Password rules: Change them every 25 years
2009-10-23/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Little new tool: reversing md5/sha1 hashes http://isc.sans.org/tools/reversehash.html
2008-09-22/a>
Jim Clausing
Lessons learned from the Palin (and other) account hijacks
GUESSING
2010-08-27/a>
Mark Hofman
FTP Brute Password guessing attacks
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