Welcome to the UK Honeynet ProjectThe 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.
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.
The UK Honeynet Project status report has been released for the period March 2006 - April 2007.
Honeynet Project workshop for US Navy Strategic Studies Group in Rhode Island.
Honeynet technology and malware collection presentation in York for the UK Serious Organised Crime Agency (David Watson).
Second lightning talk on Global Distributed Honeynets (GDH) at CanSecWest07 in Vancouver (David Watson).
Honeynet Project botnet and novel malware workshop in Virginia (David Watson).
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.