Open Directory - Computers: Security: Honeypots and Honeynets
See also: - A hacker is lured, endured, and studied. One of the first examples of a honeypot. First published in 1992. - Live honeynet status data, papers produced as a result of research, and other related resources. - A program that acts as a honeypot for spammers who use spambots to harvest email addresses from Web sites. - 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. - A high interaction client honeypot. A client honeypot is a security technology that allows one to find malicious servers on a network. - A toolkit designed to make it appear to attackers as if the system running DTK has a large number of widely known vulnerabilities. - Configuring and deploying Sink Hole Routers, which are the network equivalent of a honey pot. [PDF] - Glastopf is a small Python webserver which emulates thousands of web application vulnerabilities. - Emulates a vulnerable web application by allowing itself to be indexed by search engines. Project information and free download. - A free windows based medium interaction honeypot solution. - A platform independent low interaction client honeypot that allows identify rogue servers on the web. - A community of organizations actively researching, developing and deploying Honeynets and sharing the lessons learned. - HoneySink is an open source network sinkhole that provides a mechanism for detection and prevention of malicious traffic on a given network. - A tool for semi-automatically creating emulators of network server applications. - A weblog about with IT-security, honeypots, and honeynets. - A system for automated generation of signatures for network intrusion detection systems (NIDSs). - Small daemon that creates virtual hosts on a network (honeypot). Can be used as a virtual honeynet, for network monitoring, or as a spam trap. For *BSD, GNU/Linux, and Solaris. - Honeyd configuration wizard, a SQL Interface, and reports. - 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. - Brief encyclopedia article describing Honeypots. - Information covering intrusion detection and prevention systems, research and production honeypots, and incident handling. Also provides general overview of network security issues. - 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. - White papers, mailing list and other resources related to honeypots. - Index of over 75 papers on Honeypots. - 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. - A honeynet gateway on a bootable CDROM. - 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). - A Windows honeypot designed to attract and detect hackers by simulating vulnerable system services and trojans. - An Introduction to second generation honeynets (honeywalls). - A program that creates a tarpit or, as some have called it, a "sticky honeypot". - Document outlines the weaknesses of different existing approaches to catch malware – especially bots – and shows how Medium Interaction Honeypots solves these problems. [pdf] - Seller of HoneyPoint family of products. - A low interaction honeypot designed to emulate vulnerabilties worms use to spread, and to capture these worms. - European Network of Affiliated Honeypots. - Aninternational, non-profit (501c3) research organization dedicated to improving the security of the Internet at no cost to the public. - Web Application Security Consortium Distributed Open Proxy Honeypot Project. - A free, distributed, open-source project to help website administrators track, stop, and prosecute spam harvesters stealing email addresses from their sites. - SCADA HoneyNet Project: Building Honeypots for Industrial Networks (SCADA, DCS, and PLC architectures). - This two-part paper discusses how hackers discover, interact with, and sometimes disable honeypots at the system level and the application layer. - A tool to analyze honeyd-logfiles of the honeyd-daemon. Generates graphical and textual results from queries against the logfile data. - Website set up to deliver almost infinite numbers of bogus email addresses to email harvesting bots. - Independent non-profit research organization of security professionals dedicated to information security focused on honeynet technologies. - A volunteer no-profit research organization. Aim is to provide information about emerging security threats and vulnerabilities active in the wild in order to learn tools, tactics, and motives of the blackhat community and to share such information with IT community in order to improve the security of the Internet. - Describes different commercial and freeware honeypots. - 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. - Watch captured hacks, IP details, How they hacked the honeypot, network owners responses. - Microsoft Research project to detect and analyze Web sites hosting malicious code using client-side honeypots. - 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. - A Python low-interaction honeyclient aimed at mimicing the behavior of a web browser in order to detect and emulate malicious contents - A simple honey pot program based on iptables redirects and an xinetd listener. - 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. - 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. - Encyclopedia article about the security devices, including several examples. - 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. - A medium interaction SSH honeypot designed to log brute force attacks and, most importantly, the entire shell interaction performed by the attacker. - A collection of programs to deploy, run and analyse network and host simulations in IP networks. - 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. (May 17, 2005) - 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. (May 16, 2005) - A series of white papers describing the concepts and technology of the Honeynet Project and Research Alliance and sharing lessons learned. (May 09, 2005) - Paper on the use of honeynets to learn more about botnets. Covers uses of botnets, how they work and how to track them. (March 05, 2005) - Article discussing methods hackers use to detect honeypots. (September 28, 2004) - Article discussing the use of honeypot technology to combat attacks on wireless networks. (February 13, 2004) - Article discussing issues with Honeypot technology, focusing on dealing with the possibility of your Honeypot being detected (and potentially abused) by an attacker. (January 14, 2004) - This paper evaluates the usefulness of using honeypots to fight spammers. (November 26, 2003) - This paper evaluates the usefulness of using honeypots to fight Internet worms and perform counterattacks. (October 23, 2003) - Honeypots that dynamically learn your network then deploy virtual honeypots that adapt to your network. (September 15, 2003) - This article is about deploying and managing honeypots in large, distributed environments through the use of Honeypot Farms. (August 03, 2003) - This paper discusses honeytokens, honeypots that are not computers, but rather digital entities that are stored in a restricted part of the network. (July 21, 2003) - An article about how to use VMware to produce honeypots to catch system intruders. (February 05, 2002) - Article discussing the creation of the Honeynet Project. (September 24, 2001)
