ArsGeek Review of "Virtual Honeypots"
Tuesday, August 7. 2007
ArsGeek posted yesterday a review of the book by Niels and me:
Title: Virtual Honeypots: From Botnet Tracking to Intrusion Detection
Author(s): Niels Provos & Thorsten Holz
ISBN10: 0-321-33632-1
ISBN13: 978-0-321-33632-1
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Cost: $49.99
Format: Paperback, 440 pages.
Published: July 16, 2007
Here is a concise, step by step guide to creating virtual honeypots. Honeypots are sweetened servers or services made available to the public where those seeking to compromise systems (either bots, malware or actual human beings taking a gander) can find vulnerabilities and then exploit them. Honeypots serve to either track and collect information about such attacks or serve as literal traps, netting the bad guys and tracing back to their origins.
Topics in the book range from full fledged virtual OS instances to attract malware and wrongdoers, creating low interaction honeypots to simulate single instances of vulnerabilities (rather than an entire system to compromise) to using various pre-packed tools to attract and trap malware, bots and hackers.
Title: Virtual Honeypots: From Botnet Tracking to Intrusion Detection
Author(s): Niels Provos & Thorsten Holz
ISBN10: 0-321-33632-1
ISBN13: 978-0-321-33632-1
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Cost: $49.99
Format: Paperback, 440 pages.
Published: July 16, 2007
Here is a concise, step by step guide to creating virtual honeypots. Honeypots are sweetened servers or services made available to the public where those seeking to compromise systems (either bots, malware or actual human beings taking a gander) can find vulnerabilities and then exploit them. Honeypots serve to either track and collect information about such attacks or serve as literal traps, netting the bad guys and tracing back to their origins.
Topics in the book range from full fledged virtual OS instances to attract malware and wrongdoers, creating low interaction honeypots to simulate single instances of vulnerabilities (rather than an entire system to compromise) to using various pre-packed tools to attract and trap malware, bots and hackers.
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