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Honeyd 0.6: Happy Summer/Pre-Birthday Release
From: Niels Provos <provos () citi umich edu>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 21:00:29 -0400
I am pleased to announce the latest release of Honeyd: HONEYD 0.6: HAPPY SUMMER/PRE-BIRTHDAY RELEASE: ---------------------------------------------- Honeyd is a small daemon that creates virtual hosts on a network. The hosts can be configured to run arbitrary services, and their personality can be adapted so that they appear to be running certain operating systems. Honeyd provides a framework thats helps with many security problems. It can be instrumented to automatically detect worms, to provide network decoys to deter adversaries, threat detection and assessment, etc. Honeyd also helps with spam prevention and simple network simulations. Version 0.6 includes many feature improvements and bug fixes: ------------------------------------------------------------- Support for plugins that allow external developers to hook into the Honeyd packet stream. Thanks to Christian Kreibich. The routing code has been improved to scale to larger topologies using trinary tree code provided by Bill Cheswick. Support for asymmetric routes and GRE tunneling allowing distributed Honeyd installations and virtualization of dispersed topologies. External machines can be integrated into the virtual routing topology to create more realistic honeynets. This feature may also be used for network simulation by placing several machines at different ends of the topology and see how packets are affected by packet loss, etc. Subsystems can be shared between different virtual hosts now to increase the performance on large networks. Many many bug fixes. More information on Honeyd can be found at http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/honeyd/ Honeyd is released under a 4-clause BSD license. Please, check the GPG signature before installing Honeyd. It is recommended to run Honeyd under a sandbox like Systrace; see http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace/ Feedback and comments are welcome. Regards, Niels Provos. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attend the Black Hat Briefings & Training, July 28 - 31 in Las Vegas, the world's premier technical IT security event! 10 tracks, 15 training sessions, 1,800 delegates from 30 nations including all of the top experts, from CSO's to "underground" security specialists. See for yourself what the buzz is about! Early-bird registration ends July 3. This event will sell out. www.blackhat.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Current thread:
- Honeyd 0.6: Happy Summer/Pre-Birthday Release Niels Provos (Jun 25)
- Re: Honeyd 0.6: Happy Summer/Pre-Birthday Release -- Plugins ravenlord (Jun 27)
- RE: Honeyd 0.6: Happy Summer/Pre-Birthday Release -- Plugins Curt Purdy (Jun 27)
- Re: Honeyd 0.6: Happy Summer/Pre-Birthday Release -- Plugins ravenlord (Jun 27)