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Honeypots: Tracking Hackers
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Honeypots: Tracking Hackers

by Lance Spitzner
September 2002
Intermediate to advanced
480 pages
11h 47m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Information Gathering: An Example Attack

After all this discussion on how complex and involved Honeynets are, at this point you most likely are wondering, Why bother? The reason to use Honeynets is because no other honeypot solution can gather more information about an attacker. As a high-interaction technology, Honeynets gather information not only on attacks but on the attackers themselves. Like ManTrap, discussed in the previous chapter, Honeynets can gather every operation of attackers, from their tools to their keystrokes. However, Honeynets have some additional advantages over solutions such as ManTrap. Honeynets are not limited to a single operating system or software solution. Remember, Honeynets are nothing more than an architecture. ...

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