Archive for August, 2005

UK consumers ‘banking blindly’

Friday, August 5th, 2005

UK consumers ‘banking blindly’ http://www.enn.ie/news.html?code=9628946 (references research by the Honeynet Project and IBM)

Japanese HP joins Research Alliance

Thursday, August 4th, 2005

Japanese Honeynet Project joins Research Alliance: The Japanese Honeynet Project has joined the Honeynet Project’s Research Alliance. More details about the group can be found here http://www.vogue.is.uec.ac.jp/honeynet/

Logalert released

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005

Logalert released: Gabriel Armbrust Araujo has released a logfile monitoring tool called ‘logalert’ which executes a specific action whenever it matches a pattern [regex], much like the swatch perl script. See http://logalert.sourceforge.net/

HoneyD discussion forums added

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2005

Discussion forums added for honeyd: Discussion forums for honeyd have been added by Niels on the Honeyd home page at http://www.honeyd.org/

Google Hack Honeypot updated

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2005

Google Hack Honeypot Project updated: The Google Hack Honeypot project has released version 1.1 of its tools and documentation, available immediately at http://ghh.sourceforge.net. “GHH is the “Google Hack” honeypot, a package of honeypots, tools, and documentation reacting to search engine hacking. Google provides an unbiased index of all things public, vulnerable or not. This index provides attackers a convenient path for exploitation, while GHH provides the convenient path to embarrassment. Version 1.1 is a compilation of many updates including: centralized logging (MySQL), advanced proxy detection, spoofed file extensions and new pre-built honeypots. These features allow GHH to respond to advances in search enging hacking.”