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- Applying Data-Mining Techniques in Honeypot Analysis
- Very little is known about the exact actions executed by a hacker entering a system. Much insight can be gained from following and understanding a hacker's behaviour. It is believed that the more interesting the target the faster the attack will occur. Honeypots are a means of creating an inviting...
- White papers 2009-03-03
- Using Honeypots to Reduce IT Security Violations
- Honeypots are becoming a widely used resource in Information Technology Security to gather data on hackers and their methodology of attacking a particular organization. This paper presents a general overview of honeypot technology, some advantages and disadvantages of honeypots, history of honeypots, legal issues of honeypots, and honeypot methods used...
- White papers 2009-01-01
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- Windows 7 security default worries experts
- How many Windows 7 does it take...How many dribble articles about Windows 7 canthere be in one week.I heard Windows 7 is now helping the economy andit has changed global warming to global cooling.So the polar bears are now SAFE!!! Way to go Windows 7 it is like the messiah...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-22
- E-government Security: A Honeynet Approach
- Security is one of the most important issues in E-government. All of the security approaches that are common in E-commerce are applicable to E-government. But E-government is a little different from E-commerce. Usually government networks can communicate to each other better than business networks, because, most of them are connected...
- White papers 2009-04-01
- Foxit PDF Reader being exploited in the wild
- Adobe isn't the only PDF software maker facing in-the-wild malware attacks. Just weeks after the availability of patches for critical security flaws in the popular FoxIt Reader, there is word that malicious hackers are already targeting unpatched versions of the software. ...
- Blog posts 2009-03-25
- Under worm attack, US Army bans USB drives
- Under worm attack, US Army bans USB drivesIf our Army is under attack......isn't that war?Um...good luck on that!!Do they not realize that the cost of lost productivity from completely un-networking and banning shared media FAR outweighs the cost of security s/w and remediation from time to time? Ever hear...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-20
- U.K's most spammed person receives 44,000 spam emails daily
- When you get so much spam that your anti-spam provider decides to use you in a marketing campaign, your spam problem turns into an asset for the community, and researchers running honeypots can only envy you for the sample of spam emails you receive on a daily basis. According to...
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- 200,000 sites spreading web malware, China's hosting the most
- Yesterday, the Stopbadware.org initiative released a report entitled "May 2008 Badware Websites Report" summarizing the findings out of analyzing over 200,000 sites spreading malware. With recent data for malicious sites provided by Google's Safe Browsing diagnostic, Stopbadware.org also received responses from affected parties such as Google itself, The Planet, SoftLayer...
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- Trend Micro Smart Protection Network - Security Made Smarter
- Trend Micro leverages patent-pending technology to correlate the threat data gathered through a network of proactive email, Web, and file reputation technologies, Web Crawlers, honeypots and global threat sensors of customers, partners, and threat research and support centers to combat even the most sophisticated sequential and blended threats. Built-in feedback...
- White papers 2008-06-01
- Social Honeypots: Making Friends With a Spammer Near You
- Social networking communities have become an important communications platform, but the popularity of these communities has also made them targets for a new breed of social spammers. Unfortunately, little is known about these social spammers, their level of sophistication, or their strategies and tactics. This paper provides the first characterization...
- White papers 2008-04-10
- Roaming Honeypots for Mitigating Service-Level Denial-of-Service Attacks
- Honeypots have been proposed to act as traps for malicious attackers. However, because of their deployment at fixed thus detectable locations and on machines other than the ones they are supposed to protect, honeypots can be avoided by sophisticated attacks. The paper proposes roaming honeypots, a mechanism that allows the...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Honeycomb - Creating Intrusion Detection Signatures Using Honeypots
- This paper describes a system for automated generation of attack signatures for network intrusion detection systems. The system applies pattern-matching techniques and protocol conformance checks on multiple levels in the protocol hierarchy to network traffic captured a honeypot system. This paper presents results of running the system on an unprotected...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- QuickTime zero-day attacks intercepted
- Researchers at Symantec have intercepted two different in-the-wild malware attacks targeting an unpatched code execution vulnerability in Apple's QuickTime media player. Honeypots in Symantec's DeepSight Threat Management System captured the first known case of exploit exploitation of the flaw on December 1st, 2007. The company has since...
- Blog posts 2007-12-03
- "Out-of-the-Box" Monitoring of VM-Based High-Interaction Honeypots
- Honeypot has been an invaluable tool for the detection and analysis of network-based attacks by either human intruders or automated malware in the wild. The insights obtained by deploying honeypots, especially high-interaction ones, largely rely on the monitoring capability on the honeypots. In practice, based on the location of sensors,...
- White papers 2007-12-01
- IE users beware: RealPlayer zero-day flaw under attack
- See updates below with confirmation from RealNetworks and plans for an emergency RealPlayer patch Hackers are actively exploiting a zero-day hole in RealNetworks' RealPlayer media player, a software program installed on tens of millions of Windows computers worldwide. The in-the-wild attacks, which began...
- Blog posts 2007-10-19
- Use honeypots to track and mitigate botnets
- Bots pose a serious threat to both individual and corporate environments. They are often used for DDoS attacks, to send spam, and as spyware to steal sensitive information from the victim's machine. In this chapter download from Virtual HoneyPots: From Botnet Tracking to Intrusion Detection, learn how to...
- Download resources 2007-10-19
- Firefox or IE? Strange answer to security question
- A study by the non-profit Honeynet Project has come up with a strange answer to the Firefox versus Internet Explorer security question.During the experiment, conducted in May 2007, the group compared three browsers -- Internet Explorer 6 SP2, Firefox 1.5.0 and Opera 8.0.0 -- to determine whether using an alternative...
- Blog posts 2007-08-27
- Firefox or IE? Strange answer to security question
- Firefox or IE? Strange answer to security questionStatistics explanation[i]However, when client honeypots with these browsers surfed to a list of about 30,000 known exploit servers, [b]the URLs that resulted in a 0.5735% of successful compromises of Internet Explorer 6 SP2[/b] did not cause a single successful attack on Firefox 1.5.0...
- Discussion threads 2007-08-27
- Strider HoneyMonkeys: Active, Client-Side Honeypots for Finding Malicious Websites
- A serious threat is emerging on the Internet where malicious Web sites exploit browser vulnerabilities to install malicious software. Traditional honeypots are typically server-side, which passively draw attacks from malicious clients. This paper describes the Strider HoneyMonkey Exploit Detection System, which uses client-side honeypots to hunt for potentially malicious Web...
- White papers 2007-05-29
- Compatibility Is Not Transparency: VMM Detection Myths and Realities
- Recent work on applications ranging from realistic honeypots to stealthier rootkits has speculated about building transparent VMMs - VMMs that are indistinguishable from native hardware, even to a dedicated adversary. This paper surveys anomalies between real and virtual hardware and consider methods for detecting such anomalies, as well as possible...
- White papers 2007-04-12
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