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    About this library

    This is the HackersHub Awareness Library — a free, open-licensed collection of security awareness training modules. This page explains who built it, how it is built, what you can do with it, and how to contribute back.

    Who built it

    The HackersHub team. We are a Netherlands-based offensive-security firm — penetration testers, red teamers, security consultants. Our day job is breaking into organisations under contract so they can fix what we find. Every module in this library is reviewed and signed off by someone on our practitioner team before publishing. Bylines on the public version of the library are collective — 'reviewed by the HackersHub team' — for OPSEC reasons. Internally we know who wrote what.

    How a module is built

    1. A specification is written for the module — target keyword, audience, real-world incidents to reference, learning objectives, related modules.
    2. The draft is generated against that specification using a strict prompt template — AI-assisted, not AI-led.
    3. A practitioner reviewer reads the draft end-to-end, edits in-line, adds anecdotes from the field, verifies every technical claim and source, and approves publication.
    4. A second pair of eyes does a final pass for tone, accuracy, and translation parity (EN/NL).
    5. The module is published with the HackersHub watermark and the CC-BY-ND-4.0 license card.

    Why this isn't AI slop

    Most free AI-generated training is unreviewed, year-detached, and full of generic advice. Ours is reviewed against actual recent incidents, cites primary sources (NCSC, NIST, MITRE, ENISA, ATT&CK), names real CVEs and breach cases, and is updated with year-anchored content. The HackersHub watermark is our public claim that we vetted the content exactly as you see it; under CC-BY-ND 4.0, anyone modifying the content must remove our watermark first.

    How you can use it

    • Read it. Share the URL. Cite the modules in your own awareness program.
    • Bundle the modules inside your own LMS or training portal (with the watermark intact).
    • Add your own logo, intro, outro, or framing — co-branding is permitted.
    • Translate to any language. Please notify us so we can list your translation in the official library.
    • Sell access to your clients — providers and consultancies may include HH modules in commercial training programs.
    • What you cannot do: modify the content inside a watermarked HackersHub module. If you need a different version, remove our watermark first — that signals it is now your version, not ours.

    How to contribute back

    If you find an inaccuracy or want to suggest a topic, reach us via the contact page. We accept community pull requests on the markdown source repository (linked from the license page) for typo fixes and translations; substantive edits go through our review pipeline before re-watermarking.

    Contact the HackersHub team

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    This module is HackersHub-endorsed exactly as you see it here, watermark and all. Free under CC-BY-ND 4.0. Edit the content? Remove our watermark first. — The HackersHub team View license details.