Honeynet Project Researchers Build ICS Honeypot

Industrial control system and SCADA honeypots have been tried before with relative success. While those systems were enticing to hackers who hammered away on them, they were also complicated, required real ICS and SCADA gear, and weren’t publicly available. Two researchers from Norway and Denmark...

Honeynet Project Launches 'Ghost' To Snare USB Malware

The Honeynet Project launched a new project Thursday that is designed to snare malware that spreads by infecting removable USB universal serial bus storage drives, citing the increased reliance of malicious programs on portable drives to move from computer to computer. The ghost-usb-honeypot uses...

Virtual Machine for Android Reverse Engineering (A.R.E) Released

Virtual Machine for Android Reverse Engineering A.R.E Released The Honeynet Project release of the Android Reverse Engineering A.R.E. Virtual Machine. Do you need to analyze a piece of Android malware, but dont have all your analysis tools at hand? The Android Reverse Engineering A.R.E. Virtual...

Free Tool Helps Graphically Visualize Attacks

The free Picviz tool from the Honeynet Project takes data from various log analysis sources and converts them into a multidimensional visual map of events. Read the full article. Dark Reading...

SRI releases Conficker scanner source code

The experts at SRI International, who have been tracking the Conficker worm as closely as anyone, have released the source code to the scanner they wrote to detect the active P2P scanning that Conficker-infected machines perform. The Conficker worm exhibits a number of interesting characteristics...

Rich Mogull on the Conficker Response and DLP Adoption

Dennis Fisher talks with Rich Mogull, founder of Securosis, about the behind-the-scenes effort by the Honeynet Project and others to identify Conficker-infected PCs, as well as the hype surrounding the DLP market and the level of DLP adoption. Subscribe to the Digital Underground podcast on Podca...

How to identify and clean Conficker infections

As the world prepares for the complete destruction of the Internet tomorrow when the Conficker worm makes a small change in its communication protocol, a voice of reason has emerged from the wilderness. The Honeynet Project on Monday released a paper with a detailed analysis of the worm as well a...

Honeynet Project finds way to fingerprint Conficker infections

Just days ahead of an April 1st activation date for the Conficker worm, a pair of security researchers from the Honeynet Project have scored a major breakthrough, finding a way to remotely and anonymously fingerprint the malware on infected networks. Now, with the help of Dan Kaminsky and Rich...

Security projects aim for Google Summer of Code

By Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus A number of security-focused open-source projects have announced their participation as mentoring organizations in Google’s Summer of Code google.com. They include the NMap Project, the OpenSSH project and the Honeynet Project. Read the full article securityfocus.co...

Anglers of the three typical means of attack-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

In most people the impression that phishing is one of those tricking people into providing Bank account or identity information of the fake e-mail. However, according to the honey network project group&honey network research Alliance Honeynet Project & Research Alliance recently published study...