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Malware Honeypot Projects Merge

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the two-great-tastes dept.

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."

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  1. Re:No Windows version ? by WindBourne · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

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  2. Bound to happen by varmint+jerky · · Score: 4, Funny

    It was inevitable...they couldn't resist each other.

  3. MS Strider honeymonkey project by Quirk · · Score: 4, Informative
    I remembered MS running a honeypot project that /. reported on last year.

    What Is Strider "HoneyMonkey"? is a differnet take on the problem. /. reported on the project... http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/18/224 0222

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