Long time Honeynet Project members Niels Provos and Thorsten Holz’s book “Virtual Honeypots: From Botnet Tracking to Intrusion Detection” was released in the US last month but has only just become available here in the UK recently. It has picked up a number of good reviews, and we highly recommended it for a good background on honeynet technologies and their uses.
For the last six months, David Watson has has been leading the Honeynet Project’s Global Distributed Honeynet (GDH) initiative. Phase One of the GDH initiative concluded 31/05/07, with a three month status report being delivered to members of the honeynet research community 01/07/07. We are now looking at how we release more of our findings to the public, and also how best to continue our research in future GDH phases.
The Honeynet Project has begun the process of opening its development mailing lists and svn repository up to the public, with a development wiki to follow soon too. The first project to go public is Honeysnap, led by members of the UK Honeynet Project, so please sign up if you are interested and actively using Honeysnap.
UK Honeynet Project and German Honeynet Project initiates new centralised malware collection project with the Honeynet Project Research Alliance.
Honeynet Research Alliance bi-annual reports published.
Pakistan Honeynet Project has been awarded the 1st ever National Free and Open Source Software Award 2005 on the occasion of the 1st National Free and Open Source Software Awareness Campaign FOSSAC’2005.
Philippine Honeynet Project joins Research Alliance: The Philippine Honeynet Project, based at Ateneo de Manila University, has joined the Honeynet Project’s Research Alliance. More details about the group can be found here http://www.philippinehoneynet.org/
“Honeypots for Windows” book published: “Honeypots for Windows” by Roger A. Grimes has been published: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1590593359/robsladesinterne