Tracking Botnets with help of Honeynets

This paper will evaluate the usefulness of using honeypots to fight spammers on several fronts. Part one discusses the methods spammers use to harvest addresses, maintain stealth and manipulate open mail relays on the Internet. Then honeypots will be considered that create fake email addresses to be harvested, identify and track spammers, and simulate open proxies for spammers to use.

This is a short guide to build a GenII Honeynet Gateway, also called a Honeywall, under Linux, broaching the most common problems and providing several solutions and tips.

A tool for semi-automatically creating emulators of network server applications.

The Strider HoneyMonkey Project

A toolkit designed to make it appear to attackers as if the system running DTK has a large number of widely known vulnerabilities.

Spanish Honeynet Project

Netbait Commercial Honeypot.

An article about how to use VMware to produce honeypots to catch system intruders. (February 5, 2002)

KFSensor is a commercial host based Intrusion Detection System (IDS), it acts as a honeypot to attract and detect hackers by simulating vulnerable system services and trojans.