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Virtual Honeypots: From Botnet Tracking to Intrusion Detection
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Virtual Honeypots: From Botnet Tracking to Intrusion Detection

by Niels Provos, Thorsten Holz
July 2007
Intermediate to advanced
480 pages
13h 20m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
Content preview from Virtual Honeypots: From Botnet Tracking to Intrusion Detection

Chapter 9. Detecting Honeypots

9.1 Detecting Low-Interaction Honeypots

9.2 Detecting High-Interaction Honeypots

9.3 Detecting Rootkits

9.4 Summary

Although honeypots are a great resource for investigating adversaries or automatic exploitation via worms, the amount of information we can learn depends on how realistic the honeypots are. If an adversary breaks into a machine and immediately notices that she broke into a honeypot, her reaction might be to remove all evidence and leave the machine alone. On the other hand, if the fact that she broke into a honeypot remains undetected, she could use it to store attack tools and launch further attacks on other systems. This makes it very important to provide realistic-looking honeypots. For low-interaction ...

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