Honeypots and Honeynets

Impost - Impost can either act as a honey pot and take orders from a Perl script controlling how it responds and communicates with connecting clients; or it can operate as a packet sniffer and monitor incoming data to specified destination port supplied by the command-line arguments (pre-release version available).
http://impost.sourceforge.net/

Talisker Security Wizardry: Honeypots - Describes different commercial and freeware honeypots.
http://www.securitywizardry.com/honeypots.htm

SecurityFocus: Honeypot Farms - This article is about deploying and managing honeypots in large, distributed environments through the use of Honeypot Farms. <small>(August 3, 2003)</small>
http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1720

Honeynet.org: Tracking Botnets - Paper on the use of honeynets to learn more about botnets. Covers uses of botnets, how they work and how to track them. <small>(March 5, 2005)</small>
http://www.honeynet.org/papers/bots/

The Bait and Switch Honeypot System - A system that redirects all hostile traffic from your production systems to a honeypot that is a partial mirror of your production system. Once switched, the would-be hacker is unknowingly attacking your honeypot instead of the real data.
http://baitnswitch.sourceforge.net/

Client honeypot / honeyclient - Wikipedia article on client honeypots.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Client_honeypot_/_honeyclient

SecurityFocus: Problems and Challenges with Honeypots - Article discussing issues with Honeypot technology, focusing on dealing with the possibility of your Honeypot being detected (and potentially abused) by an attacker. <small>(January 14, 2004)</small>
http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1757

SecurityFocus: Fighting Internet Worms With Honeypots - This paper evaluates the usefulness of using honeypots to fight Internet worms and perform counterattacks. <small>(October 23, 2003)</small>
http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1740

Know your Enemy: Phishing - This white paper aims to provide practical information on the practice of phishing and draws on data collected by the German Honeynet Project and UK Honeynet Project. <small>(May 16, 2005)</small>
http://www.honeynet.org/papers/phishing/

Sombria Honeypot System - A honeypot system and "Honeypot Exchange Program."
http://www.lac.co.jp/business/sns/intelligence/sombria_e.html

Honeynet Security Console (HSC) - HSC is an analysis tool to view events on your personal honeynet. View and correlate events from Snort, TCPDump, Firewall, Syslog and Sebek logs.
http://www.activeworx.org/

mwcollect - A solution to collect worms and other autonomous spreading malware in a non-native environment like FreeBSD or Linux. Some people consider it a next generation honeypot, however computers running mwcollect cannot actually be infected with the malware.
http://www.mwcollect.org

Deception ToolKit (DTK) - A toolkit designed to make it appear to attackers as if the system running DTK has a large number of widely known vulnerabilities.
http://all.net/dtk/index.html

Netbait - Netbait Commercial Honeypot.
http://www.netbaitinc.com

An Evening with Berferd - A hacker is lured, endured, and studied. One of the first examples of a honeypot. First published in 1992.
http://all.net/books/berferd/berferd.html

MicroSolved, Inc. - Seller of HoneyPoint family of products.
http://microsolved.com/

WebMaven (Buggy Bank) - WebMaven is an intentionally broken web application. It is intended to be used in a safe legal environment (your own host) as a training tool, as a basic benchmark platform to test web application security scanners and as a Honeypot.
http://www.mavensecurity.com/webmaven

Anton Chuvakin Honeynet - Live honeynet status data, papers produced as a result of research, and other related resources.
http://www.chuvakin.com/honeynet/

Honeypot + Honeypot = Honeynet - Article discussing the creation of the Honeynet Project. <small>(September 24, 2001)</small>
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Past-News/Honeypot-Honeypot-Honeynet/

Medium Interaction Honeypots - Document outlines the weaknesses of different existing approaches to catch malware – especially bots – and shows how Medium Interaction Honeypots solves these problems. [PDF] <small>(April 7, 2006)</small>
http://www.pixel-house.net/midinthp.pdf

HoneyNet Project - A community of organizations actively researching, developing and deploying Honeynets and sharing the lessons learned.
http://project.honeynet.org/

Honeycomb - A system for automated generation of signatures for network intrusion detection systems (NIDSs).
http://www.icir.org/christian/honeycomb/

SecurityFocus: Defeating Honeypots - Network issues, Part 1 - Article discussing methods hackers use to detect honeypots. <small>(September 28, 2004)</small>
http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1803

Honeyd Control Center - Honeyd configuration wizard, a SQL Interface, and reports.
http://zope.org/Members/Ioan/HoneydCenter

Chinese Honeynet Project - Artemis Project news, status reports, and papers.
http://www.honeynet.org.cn

HoneyC Low-Interaction Client Honeypot - A platform independent low interaction client honeypot that allows identify rogue servers on the web.
https://projects.honeynet.org/honeyc/

Honeyclient Development Project - Honeyclient news, downloads, and information.
http://www.honeyclient.org/trac

MITRE Honeyclient Project - The first open source client honeypot.
http://www.honeyclient.org

Project Honey Pot: Distributed Spam Harvester Tracking Network - A free, distributed, open-source project to help website administrators track, stop, and prosecute spam harvesters stealing email addresses from their sites.
http://www.projecthoneypot.org/

The Strider HoneyMonkey Project - Microsoft Research project to detect and analyze Web sites hosting malicious code using client-side honeypots.
http://research.microsoft.com/HoneyMonkey/

thp - Tiny Honeypot - A simple honey pot program based on iptables redirects and an xinetd listener.
http://www.alpinista.org/thp/

SecurityDocs - Honeypots - Directory of articles, white papers, and documents on honeypots and other security topics.
http://www.securitydocs.com/Intrusion_Detection/Honeypots

LaBrea Tarpit - A program that creates a tarpit or, as some have called it, a "sticky honeypot".
http://labrea.sourceforge.net/

Honeywall CDROM - A honeynet gateway on a bootable CDROM.
http://www.honeynet.org/tools/cdrom/

Philippine Honeynet Project, Philippines - Philippine Honeynet Project. Includes transcript of a VMWare Honeynet using Windows XP / Windows 2000 as the base OS.
http://www.philippinehoneynet.org

Know Your Enemy: Learning more about phishing - A detailed analysis of phishing through compromised web servers. <small>(May 9, 2005)</small>
http://www.honeynet.org/papers/phishing/details/index.html

SourceForge.net: Project - HoneyView - A tool to analyze honeyd-logfiles of the honeyd-daemon. Generates graphical and textual results from queries against the logfile data.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/honeyview

SecurityFocus: Dynamic Honeypots - Honeypots that dynamically learn your network then deploy virtual honeypots that adapt to your network. <small>(September 15, 2003)</small>
http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1731

Know Your Enemy: GenII Honeynets - An Introduction to second generation honeynets (honeywalls).
http://www.honeynet.org/papers/gen2/

Securityfocus: Fighting Spammers With Honeypots - This paper evaluates the usefulness of using honeypots to fight spammers. <small>(November 26, 2003)</small>
http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1747

New Zealand Honeynet Project - Papers and information on honeypots, especially application layer, e.g. PHP applications, from the New Zealand branch of the Honeynet project.
http://www.nz-honeynet.org/

Honeyd - Small daemon that creates virtual hosts on a network (honeypot). Can be used as a virtual honeynet, for network monitoring, or as a spam trap. For *BSD, GNU/Linux, and Solaris.
http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/honeyd/

spank - A collection of programs to deploy, run and analyse network and host simulations in IP networks.
http://spank.sourceforge.net/

Honeypots - Information covering intrusion detection and prevention systems, research and production honeypots, and incident handling. Also provides general overview of network security issues.
http://www.honeypots.net/

Honeyblog - A weblog about with IT-security, honeypots, and honeynets.
http://honeyblog.org/

SecurityFocus: Microsoft looks to "monkeys" to find Web threats - Article discussing how Microsoft have developed a series of Windows XP clients, dubbed "honeymonkeys", that crawl the Web finding sites that use unreported vulnerabilities to compromise unsuspecting users. <small>(May 17, 2005)</small>
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11173

Capture - A high interaction client honeypot. A client honeypot is a security technology that allows one to find malicious servers on a network.
https://projects.honeynet.org/capture-hpc

Honeypotting with VMware - An article about how to use VMware to produce honeypots to catch system intruders. <small>(February 5, 2002)</small>
http://www.seifried.org/security/ids/20020107-honeypot-vmware-basics.html

The Team Cymru Darknet Project - A Darknet is a portion of routed, allocated IP space in which no active services or servers seemingly reside. However, there is in fact include at least one server for real-time analysis or post-event network forensics.
http://www.cymru.com/Darknet/

Google Hack Honeypot (GHH) - Emulates a vulnerable web application by allowing itself to be indexed by search engines. Project information and free download.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ghh/

Spampoison - Website set up to deliver almost infinite numbers of bogus email addresses to email harvesting bots.
http://www.spampoison.com/

SecurityFocus: Honeytokens -The Other Honeypot - This paper discusses honeytokens, honeypots that are not computers, but rather digital entities that are stored in a restricted part of the network. <small>(July 21, 2003)</small>
http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1713

KeyFocus - KF Sensor - Honey pot IDS - A Windows honeypot designed to attract and detect hackers by simulating vulnerable system services and trojans.
http://www.keyfocus.net/kfsensor/

Nepenthes - A low interaction honeypot designed to emulate vulnerabilties worms use to spread, and to capture these worms.
http://nepenthes.mwcollect.org/

SecurityFocus: Wireless Honeypots - Article discussing the use of honeypot technology to combat attacks on wireless networks. <small>(February 13, 2004)</small>
http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1761

Basted - A program that acts as a honeypot for spammers who use spambots to harvest email addresses from Web sites.
http://basted.sourceforge.net/

Honeypots: Monitoring and Forensics Project - Techniques, tools and resources for conducting Honeypot Research and Forensic Investigation. White papers include monitoring VMware honeypots, apache web server honeypots, and VMware honeypot forensics.
http://honeypots.sourceforge.net/

HoneyBOT - A free windows based medium interaction honeypot solution.
http://www.atomicsoftwaresolutions.com/honeybot.php

Honeybee - A tool for semi-automatically creating emulators of network server applications.
http://www.thomas-apel.de/honeybee/

Honeywall - The Honeywall CDROM is a bootable CD that installs onto a hard drive and comes with all the tools and functionality for you to implement data capture, control and analysis.
https://projects.honeynet.org/honeywall

Honeypotting: The Complete Documentation - Index of over 75 papers on Honeypots.
http://l0t3k.org/security/docs/honeypotting/en/

fakeAP - Generates thousands of counterfeit 802.11b access points for use as part of a honeypot or to confuse Wardrivers, NetStumblers, Script Kiddies, and other undesirables.
http://www.blackalchemy.to/project/fakeap/

UK Honeynet Project - Provides information surrounding security threats and vulnerabilities active in the wild on UK networks. Home of Honeysnap, tool to analyse Honeywall pcap files and extract summary information.
http://www.ukhoneynet.org/

Open Proxy Honeypot - Web Application Security Consortium Distributed Open Proxy Honeypot Project.
http://www.webappsec.org/projects/honeypots/

SecurityFocus: Defeating Honeypots: System Issues, Part 1 - This two-part paper discusses how hackers discover, interact with, and sometimes disable honeypots at the system level and the application layer.
http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1826

SécurIT - LogIDS, LogAgent, SécurIT Intrusion Detection Toolkit, and ComLog (a cmd.exe wrapper)
http://securit.iquebec.com/

NoAH - European Network of Affiliated Honeypots.
http://www.fp6-noah.org/

Deploying and Using Sinkholes - Configuring and deploying Sink Hole Routers, which are the network equivalent of a honey pot. [PDF]
http://www.arbornetworks.com/dmdocuments/Sinkhole_Tutorial_June03.pdf

Honeynet.BR - Brazilian Honeypots Alliance. Includes tools to summaries honeyd logs, mydoom.pl (A perl script which emulates the backdoor installed by the Mydoom virus), and an OpenBSD LiveCD Honeypot.
http://www.honeynet.org.br/

Honeypots: Tracking Hackers - White papers, mailing list and other resources related to honeypots.
http://www.tracking-hackers.com/

SCADA HoneyNet Project - SCADA HoneyNet Project: Building Honeypots for Industrial Networks (SCADA, DCS, and PLC architectures).
http://scadahoneynet.sourceforge.net/