Re: Honeypot detection and countermeasures

On June 23, 2003 06:58 am, Rob Shein wrote:
> This wouldn't work. Seeing the packets/traffic on the wire doesn't tell

Putting on my Honeynet Project hat...

I think you presume too much about honeypots. There are _many_ varieties of honeypots.

Some more rootable than others, some more detectable than others. And it's also possible to instrument them with many other monitoring systems besides just sniffing traffic in and out. I'll leave the specifics as an excercise for the reader.... :-) but they range from running inside vmware to instrumented os loads and even special hardware in some cases.

Lately the Honeynet Alliance folks have been deploying other systems besides your typical low hanging fruit. Different honeypots gather different data. It all depends on what you are trying to catch.

Beware the Jabberwock...

cheers,
--dr

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