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A hacker is lured, endured, and studied. One of the first examples of a honeypot. First published in 1992.
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Live honeynet data, papers produced as a result of the honeynet research and other honeypot and honeynet related resources.
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Created to detect when anyone attempts a Back Orifice scan against your computer. Also detects attempted connections to other services, such as Telnet, FTP, SMTP, POP3 and IMAP2.
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A program that acts as a honeypot for spammers who use spambots to harvest email addresses from Web sites.
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An open proxy honeypot (proxypot) that pretends to be an open proxy. Designed primarily to catch the mail spammer.
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This is a short guide to build a GenII Honeynet Gateway, also called a Honeywall, under Linux, broaching the most common problems and providing several solutions and tips.
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A high interaction client honeypot. A client honeypot is a security technology that allows one to find malicious servers on a network.
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The Artemis Project (Chinese Honeynet Project).
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Wikipedia article on client honeypots.
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A toolkit designed to make it appear to attackers as if the system running DTK has a large number of widely known vulnerabilities.
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Configuring and deploying Sink Hole Routers, which are the network equivalent of a honey pot.
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The French Honeynet Project is a non-profit, all volunteer group dedicated to honeynet research.
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GHH emulates a vulnerable web application by allowing itself to be indexed by search engines. It is hidden from casual page viewers, but is found through the use of a crawler or search engine.
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A low interaction client honeypot / honeyclient that allows to identify malicious servers on the web.
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A platform independent low interaction client honeypot that allows identify rogue servers on the web.
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A community of organizations actively researching, developing and deploying Honeynets and sharing the lessons learned.
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A tool for semi-automatically creating emulators of network server applications.
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A weblog about with IT-security, honeypots, and honeynets.
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Honeyclient news, downloads, and information.
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A system for automated generation of signatures for network intrusion detection systems (NIDSs).
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Small daemon that creates virtual hosts on a network (honeypot). Can be used as a virtual honeynet or for network monitoring. For *BSD, GNU/Linux, and Solaris.
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Honeyd configuration wizard, a SQL Interface, and reports.
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HSC is an analysis tool to view events on your personal honeynet. View and correlate events from Snort, TCPDump, Firewall, Syslog and Sebek logs.
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Brazilian Honeypots Alliance. Includes tools to summaries honeyd logs, mydoom.pl (A perl script which emulates the backdoor installed by the Mydoom virus), and an OpenBSD LiveCD Honeypot.
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Paper on the use of honeynets to learn more about botnets. Covers uses of botnets, how they work and how to track them.
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Article discussing the creation of the Honeynet Project.
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Information covering intrusion detection and prevention systems, research and production honeypots, and incident handling. Also provides general overview of network security issues.
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Techniques, tools and resources for conducting Honeypot Research and Forensic Investigation. White papers include monitoring VMware honeypots, apache web server honeypots, and VMware honeypot forensics.
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White papers, mailing list and other resources related to honeypots.
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An article about how to use VMware to produce honeypots to catch system intruders.
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Index of over 75 papers on Honeypots.
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The Honeywall CDROM is a bootable CD that installs onto a hard drive and comes with all the tools and functionality for you to implement data capture, control and analysis.
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A honeynet gateway on a bootable CDROM.
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Impost can either act as a honey pot and take orders from a Perl script controlling how it responds and communicates with connecting clients; or it can operate as a packet sniffer and monitor incoming data to specified destination port supplied by the command-line arguments (pre-release version available).
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This paper explains how to go about configuring VMware to deploy a Honeywall, combining the advantages offered by the Honeywall CDROM and the virtual environments.
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KFSensor is a host based Intrusion Detection System (IDS). It acts as a honey pot to attract and detect hackers by simulating vulnerable system services and trojans.
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An Introduction to second generation honeynets (honeywalls).
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A detailed analysis of phishing through compromised web servers.
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This white paper aims to provide practical information on the practice of phishing and draws on data collected by the German Honeynet Project and UK Honeynet Project.
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A program that creates a tarpit or, as some have called it, a "sticky honeypot".
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A low interaction honeypot designed to emulate vulnerabilties worms use to spread, and to capture these worms.
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Netbait Commercial Honeypot.
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Papers and information on honeypots, especially application layer, e.g. PHP applications, from the New Zealand branch of the Honeynet project (http://www.honeynet.org/).
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Web Application Security Consortium Distributed Open Proxy Honeypot Project.
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Philippine Honeynet Project. Includes transcript of a VMWare Honeynet using Windows XP / Windows 2000 as the base OS.
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A free, distributed, open-source project to help website administrators track, stop, and prosecute spam harvesters stealing email addresses from their sites.
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SCADA HoneyNet Project: Building Honeypots for Industrial Networks (SCADA, DCS, and PLC architectures).
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Directory of articles, white papers, and documents on honeypots and other security topics.
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Article discussing issues with Honeypot technology, focusing on dealing with the possibility of your Honeypot being detected (and potentially abused) by an attacker.
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Article discussing methods hackers use to detect honeypots.
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This two-part paper discusses how hackers discover, interact with, and sometimes disable honeypots at the system level and the application layer.
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Honeypots that dynamically learn your network then deploy virtual honeypots that adapt to your network.
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This paper evaluates the usefulness of using honeypots to fight Internet worms and perform counterattacks.
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This article is about deploying and managing honeypots in large, distributed environments through the use of Honeypot Farms.
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This paper discusses honeytokens, honeypots that are not computers, but rather digital entities that are stored in a restricted part of the network.
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Article discussing how Microsoft have developed a series of Windows XP clients, dubbed "honeymonkeys", that crawl the Web finding sites that use unreported vulnerabilities to compromise unsuspecting users.
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Article discussing the use of honeypot technology to combat attacks on wireless networks.
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This paper evaluates the usefulness of using honeypots to fight spammers.
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A honeypot system and "Honeypot Exchange Program."
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A tool to analyze honeyd-logfiles of the honeyd-daemon. Generates graphical and textual results from queries against the logfile data.
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Website set up to deliver almost infinite numbers of bogus email addresses to email harvesting bots.
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Independent non-profit research organization of security professionals dedicated to information security focused on honeynet technologies.
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LogIDS, LogAgent, SécurIT Intrusion Detection Toolkit, and ComLog (a cmd.exe wrapper)
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Describes different commercial and freeware honeypots.
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A system that redirects all hostile traffic from your production systems to a honeypot that is a partial mirror of your production system. Once switched, the would-be hacker is unknowingly attacking your honeypot instead of the real data.
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Information on their honeypot farm using HoneyMole.
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Microsoft Research project to detect and analyze Web sites hosting malicious code using client-side honeypots.
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A Darknet is a portion of routed, allocated IP space in which no active services or servers seemingly reside. However, there is in fact include at least one server for real-time analysis or post-event network forensics.
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Provides information surrounding security threats and vulnerabilities active in the wild on UK networks. Home of Honeysnap, tool to analyse Honeywall pcap files and extract summary information.
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WebMaven is an intentionally broken web application. It is intended to be used in a safe legal environment (your own host) as a training tool, as a basic benchmark platform to test web application security scanners and as a Honeypot.
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Generates thousands of counterfeit 802.11b access points for use as part of a honeypot or to confuse Wardrivers, NetStumblers, Script Kiddies, and other undesirables.
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A solution to collect worms and other autonomous spreading malware in a non-native environment like FreeBSD or Linux. Some people consider it a next generation honeypot, however computers running mwcollect cannot actually be infected with the malware.
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A collection of programs to deploy, run and analyse network and host simulations in IP networks.
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A simple honey pot program based on iptables redirects and an xinetd listener.