Malware Honeypot Projects Merge

rebvend writes "eWeek is reporting that two of the biggest honeypot projects (mwcollect and nepenthes) have merged operations. A new meta-portal at mwcollect.org will become a top-level community covering malware collection efforts while nepenthes will become the official tool for malware collection."

Comments

Evolution

[Ritz_Just_Ritz]

Don't the malware folks get hip to the honeypots rather quickly or do they just unleash their plague and hope the hits overwhelm any setbacks from the honeypot?

Re:No Windows version ?

[WindBourne]

All that you really want is to emulate an opening enough to encourage a cracker/worm to show itself and what the attempt is. If you use Windows, there will be back doors that will be unknown and the honeypot will most likely be cracked. Something like *bsd or *nix is needed.