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1st Pacific Rim Regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (Sponsored By The Honeynet Project)

Dr Anton Chuvakin — Mon, 05 May 2008 19:35:00 +0000

The Honeynet Project was a proud sponsor of the 1^st Pacific Rim Regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition at the Microsoft campus last weekend. The CCDC was an educational event for graduate and undergraduate students in information security. In the competition, student teams were presented with a pre-configured system of a fictitious news company that they were tasked to operate and defend. A red team of penetration testers attempted to vandalize and break into the student's network. While attacks were launched on the student's networks, students were also tasked to fulfill common business tasks, for example setting up a HTTP proxy server or adding new users. Needless to say, the students were quite busy the whole two days.

There were nine teams competing (Eastern Washington, University of Idaho, Whatcom and Highline Community Colleges, University of Alaska, DeVry, and three UW teams from Informatics, CSE, and Tacoma's Institute of Technology). The winner of the competition was the team from the University of Washington's CSE department. Congratulations to them! (Pictures of the event can be found here: http://picasaweb.google.com/mischkajer/Ccdc200802?authkey=cEydFnlQaM0)

The event was organized by the Centre of Information Assurance & Cybersecurity headed by Barbara Endicott-Popovsky. Chris Hecker of the Alaska Honeynet Project and Christian Seifert from the New Zealand Honeynet Project volunteered and helped to organize the event.

Fast Flux Networks

Ralph Logan — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:17:00 +0000

In July of Last year, The Honeynet Project published "Know Your Enemy: Fast Flux Service Networks". Since then, there has been much research in the area of Fast Flux Networks and it looks like the Mannheim University has published yet another one! The researchers used The Honeynet Project's data as a welcome research addition, the paper was published at NDS'88.

German Honeynet Project - Storm Update

Ralph Logan — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:01:00 +0000

The German Honeynet Project has updated information on Storm Malware research.

Check it out over here:

Postcards from Storm

Nice work, Thorsten!

New Paper on Honeypots

Dr Anton Chuvakin — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 01:36:00 +0000

Securityfocus.com has posted Jamie and Christien's very informative and well written paper.

New KYE Paper Out!

Dr Anton Chuvakin — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:08:00 +0000

We are excited to announce the release of our latest KYE paper, KYE Lite: Proxy Threats - Socks v666. This paper is our first ever "KYE Lite" paper. These are shorter papers that focus on very specific topics. In this paper we discuss: the basic operational concept of how reverse tunnel proxies work, a new customized control protocol in use, the advantages to the criminal community, a detailed example and it's similarities to legacy SOCKS protocols, and how this activity can be further identified including mitigation strategies.

Welcome Honeynet Project Australian Chapter!

Ralph Logan — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:34:00 +0000

We are excited to announce the addition of the Honeynet Project Australian Chapter, led by Shaun Vlassis!

Welcome Honeynet Project Czech Chapter!

Dr Anton Chuvakin — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 23:46:00 +0000

We are excited to announce the addition of the Honeynet Project Czech Chapter, led by David Vorel!

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Welcome to Honeynet Project Blog!

Honeynet Blog Admin — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 02:22:00 +0000

Honeynet Project is starting a blog! Watch this site for more fun content about the Project.