Microsoft’s “monkeys” find first zero-day exploit: Microsoft’s well publicised Honeymonkey project has found its first zero day exploit: http://online.securityfocus.com/news/11273
UK consumers ‘banking blindly’ http://www.enn.ie/news.html?code=9628946 (references research by the Honeynet Project and IBM)
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/
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 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.”
Honeynet Project Software Testing Centre The Honeynet Project has selected the Singapore Honeynet Project (SIG^2 G-TEC/IWFC Honeynet team) as their official software development test centre. The group will be funded to improve formal software testing methods and to provid a test bed plus testing resources for all Honeynet Project software development over the coming year.
Honeynet Research Alliance charter updated: the Honeynet Project’s Research Alliance charter has been updated: http://www.honeynet.org/alliance/charter.txt
Client Honeypot Project: The German Honeynet Project has a student working on a client honeypot their thesis statement, supported by the Honeynet Project. The software will be released under the BSD OpenSource license, copyright the Honeynet Project. For more informaiton see: http://lufgi4.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/diplomas/show/27