GSoC Update

Tuesday, April 21. 2009
Yesterday the results of Google Summer of Code (GSoC) were released and the Honeynet Project will mentor nine students during the summer who work on different projects: http://socghop.appspot.com/org/home/google/gsoc2009/honeynet. More information is also available at the Honeynet Project GSoC site.

I'm happy to mentor Lukas Rist, who will work on Glastopf. The goal of the project is to learn more about attacks by emulating vulnerabilities in web applications ("We have two goals: First, collecting and analyzing data and second, trying to inform compromised web page owner. Actually we are mainly collecting Remote File Inclusion attacks, but others will follow."). The source code is available at http://trac.1durch0.de/trac and will be improver during the GSoC period.
Posted by Thorsten Holz in honeynets at 16:00 | Comments (2) | Trackback (1)

LEET'09 Taking Place Soon

Tuesday, April 7. 2009
Join us at the 2nd USENIX Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats: Botnets, Spyware, Worms, and More (LEET'09), which will take place in Boston, MA, on April 21, 2009. LEET '09 will focus on the underlying mechanisms used to compromise and control hosts, the large-scale "applications" being perpetrated upon this framework, and the social and economic networks driving these threats. Sessions include Malware Analysis, Ethics in Botnet Research, Malware Behavior, and more.

The full program is available at http://www.usenix.org/events/leet09/tech/.

LEET '09 will also include a session for Work-in-Progress reports. We encourage you to submit an abstract or proposal for a 5-minute presentation on your preliminary work to leet09wips@usenix.org.

Connect with the broad community of researchers and practitioners who focus on worms, bots, spam, spyware, phishing, DDoS, and the ever-increasing palette of large-scale Internet-based threats in fostering the development of preliminary work in this diverse area and stimulating discussion of thought-provoking ideas.

Find out more and register today at http://www.usenix.org/leet09/
Posted by Thorsten Holz in honeynets, malware, paper at 08:38 | Comments (3) | Trackback (1)
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