Combating binary bandits: Honeynet's Reverse Challenge
News The whole Honeynet philosophy is understand thy enemy," Herath said. According to the event's coordinator, Lance Spitzner, the Reverse Challenge is based on the Forensic Challenge held in 2001 via the Honeynet Project.
[May 10, 2002, 10:14]
Honeynet Project sweetens hacker bait
News The Honeynet Project -- a group of experts in computer security, information intelligence and psychology -- unveiled Thursday its plans for improving "honeynets," collections of computers designed to let hackers break into a false network while...
[July 18, 2001, 9:46]
Network defenders get stuck in to Honeynet challenge
News In an attempt to find order in chaos, network defenders across the globe took on the Honeynet Project's Reverse Challenge -- to analyse and decipher binary code captured in the wild -- and an Australian programmer is reaping the rewards of sweet...
[July 19, 2002, 9:53]
Slow Scan HoneyNet detection via time stamp enumeration
Talkback A more cautious attack would use the initial brain dead scan to identify possible suspect networks (ie if it don't get blocked then it could be a HoneyNet) or those with low security. Mike, The smartest attackers will always try to come in under...
[December 1, 2006, 19:45]
An Investigation of a Compromised Host on a Honeynet Being Used to Increase the Security of a Large Enterprise Network
White Papers This paper discusses why these investigations are easier on a honeynet and how honeynets may be used to make investigations of compromised production machines faster and recovery easier. The growth of network intrusions on large enterprise networks...
[June 14, 2006, 0:00]
Linux holds out against attackers
News Unpatched Linux systems are surviving longer on the Internet before being compromised, according to a report from the Honeynet Project released this week. Unpatched Windows systems continue to be compromised more quickly, sometimes within minutes...
[December 23, 2004, 8:20]
Zombie networks implicated in ID theft
News Botnets - otherwise known as zombie networks - collections of compromised computers controlled by a single person or group, have become more pervasive and increasingly focused on identity theft and installing spyware, according to a Honeynet...
[March 15, 2005, 8:15]
Honeypot trap shows network misuse
News The Irish Honeynet was set up by Espion, Deloitte & Touche and Data Electronics last year to mimic a typical corporate Internet infrastructure but with the ability to detect and monitor all activity to and from the system.
[September 26, 2003, 11:35]
Digital sleuthing uncovers hacking costs
News On Monday, Dittrich, and other members of a loose group of security experts known as the Honeynet Project, announced the winner of the Forensic Challenge. Lance Spitzner, the founder of the Honeynet Project, said they would not prosecute the person...
[March 22, 2001, 13:46]
Hackers lured into sweeter Honeypot
News Two dozen members of the Honeynet Project -- including its founder, Lance Spitzner -- hope new changes to the group's open-source honeypot technology will help the method become much more popular among security companies and others.
[April 14, 2003, 12:30]
Researchers: Cyberattacks outstripping defences
News Speaking to the media in Kuala Lumpur at this week's Hack in the Box Security Conference, Lance Spitzner, president of the Honeynet Project, said malicious software writers have been producing sophisticated codes, motivated mainly by the prospect...
[September 7, 2007, 9:51]
Net worm hobbles Linux servers
News It's a lack of awareness," said Lance Spitzner, coordinator for the Honeynet Project, a group of well-known security experts who study how hackers attack servers. The worm is dangerous in that it is an automated tool that exploits widely known...
[January 18, 2001, 7:55]
Botnets use Windows for wicked work
News The study carried out by the German Honeynet Project found more than 80 percent of Web traffic from botnets used four ports designated for resource sharing by various versions of Windows. Despite Microsoft's renewed focus on security, latest...
[March 16, 2005, 16:15]
Solaris hole opening way for hackers
News Researchers witnessed the attack when one intruder broke into a Solaris server under intense observation as part of the Honeynet Project, an initiative to develop ways to turn spare computers into digital fly traps to study and document actual...
[January 16, 2002, 12:45]
Hackers: Corporate security stinks!
News Under the Honeynet Project, he and collaborators -- some hackers, some security experts and many who are both -- leave unprotected servers on the Internet, keeping a close watch until a network intruder breaks in.
[March 30, 2001, 8:13]
Software "fixes" routinely available but often ignored
News Data from the Honeynet Project suggest that almost 80 percent of all un-patched servers wouldn't last more than three weeks before being compromised by Internet attackers. I would put patching in the top two things an admin can do to secure their...
[January 24, 2001, 13:37]
Economic turmoil sees rise in online scams
News While the US unemployment rate increased by over six percent between August and October, reaching a 14-year high of 6.5 percent, dubious work-recruitment scams rose 514 percent over that same period, according to statistics from the Honeynet...
[November 21, 2008, 8:22]
Storm botnet 'services' could be sold
News Fast-flux service networks are networks of compromised computer systems with public DNS records that are constantly changing, making it more difficult to track and control criminal activities, according to the Honeynet Project Research Alliance, a...
[October 16, 2007, 15:25]
Vandals mutate Ramen Linux worm
News This worm doesn't do anything all that bad," Lance Spitzner, coordinator with the security group Honeynet Project, said in an interview last week. Online vandals may have modified the Ramen Linux worm discovered last week to automatically deface...
[January 23, 2001, 9:18]
