Welcome to the UK Honeynet Project

The UK Honeynet Project (a Chapter of The Honeynet Project) was founded in 2002 as a volunteer not-for-profit research organisation. Our aim is to provide information surrounding security threats and vulnerabilities active in the wild on UK networks today, to learn the tools, tactics, and motives of the blackhat community and to share these lessons learned with the public and the wider IT community. The project seeks to provide input as part of an overall honeynet community of teams researching security within IT systems around the globe.

UKHP talk at CanSecWest ’07

1:00, April 19th, 2007 by david

Second lightning talk on Global Distributed Honeynets (GDH) at CanSecWest07 in Vancouver (David Watson).

UKHP attends HP botnet and novel malware workshop

1:00, April 12th, 2007 by david

Honeynet Project botnet and novel malware workshop in Virginia (David Watson).

UKHP attends NetWorkshop35

1:00, April 3rd, 2007 by david

Arthur Clune and Chas Tomlin attend the UK academic NetWorkshop35 event in Exeter. Part of Arthur’s presentation on honeynet data analysis and distributed honeynets can be found here.

New UKHP member: Jon Stearn

1:00, March 28th, 2007 by david

Jon Stearn has joined the UK Honeynet Project team.

New centralised malware collection project initiated

1:00, March 9th, 2007 by david

UK Honeynet Project and German Honeynet Project initiates new centralised malware collection project with the Honeynet Project Research Alliance.

Jamie Riden joins UKHP

1:00, March 5th, 2007 by david

Having recently returned from New Zealand, where he was an active part of the NZ Honeynet Project and co-author of the Honeynet Project’s KYE: Web Application Threats whitepaper, Jamie Riden has recently joined the UK Honeynet Project.

UKHP talk at EuSecWest ’07

1:00, March 1st, 2007 by david

David Watson presents a lightning talk on Global Distributed Honeynets (GDH) at EuSecWest07 in London. This was the first public presentation on an ongoing long term research project for the Honeynet Project that is being led by the UK Honeynet Project group (previously referred to as Honeynet Central). Also lots of press coverage for Adam Laurie’s excellent presentation on security weaknesses in RFID technologies

David Watson interviewed for eWeek about anti-phishing patents

1:00, February 21st, 2007 by david

Interview for eWeek about anti-phishing patents (David Watson).