Honeypots and Honeynets Security

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• UK Honeynet Project - 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.
  
• mwcollect - 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.
  
• HoneyBOT - A free windows based medium interaction honeypot solution.
  
• Honeycomb - A system for automated generation of signatures for network intrusion detection systems (NIDSs).
  
• Securityfocus: Fighting Spammers With Honeypots - This paper evaluates the usefulness of using honeypots to fight spammers.
  
• Spanish Honeynet Project - Independent non-profit research organization of security professionals dedicated to information security focused on honeynet technologies.
  
• SecurityFocus: Defeating Honeypots - Network issues, Part 1 - Article discussing methods hackers use to detect honeypots.
  
• The Strider HoneyMonkey Project - Microsoft Research project to detect and analyze Web sites hosting malicious code using client-side honeypots.
  
• Honeyd Control Center - Honeyd configuration wizard, a SQL Interface, and reports.
  
• Deception ToolKit (DTK) - A toolkit designed to make it appear to attackers as if the system running DTK has a large number of widely known vulnerabilities.
  
• Honeywall - 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.
  
• Honeypot (computing) - Wikipedia - Brief encyclopedia article describing Honeypots.
  
• Open Proxy Honeypot - Web Application Security Consortium Distributed Open Proxy Honeypot Project.
  
• SecurityFocus: Honeypot Farms - This article is about deploying and managing honeypots in large, distributed environments through the use of Honeypot Farms.
  
• Anton Chuvakin Honeynet - Live honeynet status data, papers produced as a result of research, and other related resources.
  
• Client honeypot / honeyclient - Wikipedia article on client honeypots.
  
• Nepenthes - A low interaction honeypot designed to emulate vulnerabilties worms use to spread, and to capture these worms.
  
• SecurityFocus: Wireless Honeypots - Article discussing the use of honeypot technology to combat attacks on wireless networks.
  
• Basted - A program that acts as a honeypot for spammers who use spambots to harvest email addresses from Web sites.
  
• WebMaven (Buggy Bank) - 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.
  
• Google Hack Honeypot (GHH) - Emulates a vulnerable web application by allowing itself to be indexed by search engines. Project information and free download.
  
• Honeypots: Tracking Hackers - White papers, mailing list and other resources related to honeypots.
  
• Honeywall CDROM - A honeynet gateway on a bootable CDROM.
  
• SecurityFocus: Honeytokens -The Other Honeypot - This paper discusses honeytokens, honeypots that are not computers, but rather digital entities that are stored in a restricted part of the network.
  
• Honeypot + Honeypot = Honeynet - Article discussing the creation of the Honeynet Project.
  
• LaBrea Tarpit - A program that creates a tarpit or, as some have called it, a "sticky honeypot".
  
• KeyFocus - KF Sensor - Honey pot IDS - A Windows honeypot designed to attract and detect hackers by simulating vulnerable system services and trojans.
  
• spank - A collection of programs to deploy, run and analyse network and host simulations in IP networks.
  
• The Bait and Switch Honeypot System - 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.
  
• Honeynet Security Console (HSC) - HSC is an analysis tool to view events on your personal honeynet. View and correlate events from Snort, TCPDump, Firewall, Syslog and Sebek logs.
  
• HoneyNet Project - A community of organizations actively researching, developing and deploying Honeynets and sharing the lessons learned.
  
• Honeypots - Information covering intrusion detection and prevention systems, research and production honeypots, and incident handling. Also provides general overview of network security issues.
  
• SecurityFocus: Dynamic Honeypots - Honeypots that dynamically learn your network then deploy virtual honeypots that adapt to your network.
  
• fakeAP - 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.
  
• Capture - A high interaction client honeypot. A client honeypot is a security technology that allows one to find malicious servers on a network.
  
• Honeybee - A tool for semi-automatically creating emulators of network server applications.
  
• Spampoison - Website set up to deliver almost infinite numbers of bogus email addresses to email harvesting bots.
  
• Know Your Enemy: GenII Honeynets - An Introduction to second generation honeynets (honeywalls).
  
• Honeypotting with VMware - An article about how to use VMware to produce honeypots to catch system intruders.
  
• SecurityFocus: Problems and Challenges with Honeypots - Article discussing issues with Honeypot technology, focusing on dealing with the possibility of your Honeypot being detected (and potentially abused) by an attacker.
  
• Project Honey Pot: Distributed Spam Harvester Tracking Network - A free, distributed, open-source project to help website administrators track, stop, and prosecute spam harvesters stealing email addresses from their sites.
  
• SecurityFocus: Fighting Internet Worms With Honeypots - This paper evaluates the usefulness of using honeypots to fight Internet worms and perform counterattacks.
  
• HoneyC Low-Interaction Client Honeypot - A platform independent low interaction client honeypot that allows identify rogue servers on the web.
  
• MicroSolved, Inc. - Seller of HoneyPoint family of products.
  
• Talisker Security Wizardry: Honeypots - Describes different commercial and freeware honeypots.
  
• Netbait - Netbait Commercial Honeypot.
  
• The Team Cymru Darknet Project - 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.
  
• SCADA HoneyNet Project - SCADA HoneyNet Project: Building Honeypots for Industrial Networks (SCADA, DCS, and PLC architectures).
  
• MITRE Honeyclient Project - The first open source client honeypot.
  
• SourceForge.net: Project - HoneyView - A tool to analyze honeyd-logfiles of the honeyd-daemon. Generates graphical and textual results from queries against the logfile data.
  
• Know your Enemy: Phishing - 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.
  
• Chinese Honeynet Project - Artemis Project news, status reports, and papers.
  
• Honeyd - 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.
  
• An Evening with Berferd - A hacker is lured, endured, and studied. One of the first examples of a honeypot. First published in 1992.
  
• Sombria Honeypot System - A honeypot system and "Honeypot Exchange Program."
  
• Honeynet.org: Tracking Botnets - Paper on the use of honeynets to learn more about botnets. Covers uses of botnets, how they work and how to track them.
  
• Building a GenII Honeynet Gateway - 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.
  
• Impost - 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 com
  
• Deploying and Using Sinkholes - Configuring and deploying Sink Hole Routers, which are the network equivalent of a honey pot. [PDF]
  
• NoAH - European Network of Affiliated Honeypots.
  
• Honeypotting: The Complete Documentation - Index of over 75 papers on Honeypots.
  
• Honeypots: Monitoring and Forensics Project - 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.
  
• thp - Tiny Honeypot - A simple honey pot program based on iptables redirects and an xinetd listener.
  
• SecurityFocus: Defeating Honeypots: System Issues, Part 1 - This two-part paper discusses how hackers discover, interact with, and sometimes disable honeypots at the system level and the application layer.
  
• Honeyblog - A weblog about with IT-security, honeypots, and honeynets.
  
• Honeyclient Development Project - Honeyclient news, downloads, and information.
  
• Philippine Honeynet Project, Philippines - Philippine Honeynet Project. Includes transcript of a VMWare Honeynet using Windows XP / Windows 2000 as the base OS.
  
• SecurityFocus: Microsoft looks to "monkeys" to find Web threats - 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.
  
• Know Your Enemy - A series of white papers describing the concepts and technology of the Honeynet Project and Research Alliance and sharing lessons learned.
  
• Honeynet.BR - 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.
  
• SecurityDocs - Honeypots - Directory of articles, white papers, and documents on honeypots and other security topics.
  
• Medium Interaction Honeypots - Document outlines the weaknesses of different existing approaches to catch malware – especially bots – and shows how Medium Interaction Honeypots solves these problems. [PDF]
  
  

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