Re: Honeypot detection and countermeasures

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So far in every pen test I've conducted most of the addressing information was known up front. So if I ran into a honeypot or honeynet, it was just part of the overall equation. The clients were interested in what I could hack into and what vulnerabilities were present and needed to be closed. They weren't interested in paying me or my company $$ to waste time on whether I could evade a honeypot or not. It wasn't a test of my abilities, but of their security posture at that moment in time.

And always remember, the only dumb question is the one you don't ask. How are you ever going to learn without reading, trying and asking questions.

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>Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 15:03:17 -0700
preventing
>honeypots from being detected. I'd greatly appreciate
some feedback
>from pen-testers on the following issues:
existence of
>honeypots, and their location, so that it is an easy
matter to avoid
>them?
to see if the
>system under attack is a honeypot or a production machine?
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