- It's the applications, stupid
- Will a whitelist save personal computing?
- Thousands of Web sites under attack
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- Re-thinking the security of virtual machines
- Security Development Lifecycle trumps code complexity
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- Strategic security: Get a handle on authentication
- Control user installs of software
August 20, 2007 | Comments: (0)
Honeyd for Windows is Back!
Honeyd for Windows gets a much needed update.
Jesper Jurcenoks, co-founder of netVigilance, Inc., has released an updated version of Honeyd for Windows. You can get it here.
Honeyd, originally a Unix/Linux-only product by Niels Provos, is one of the best virtual honeypot software programs in existance. It is very flexible and useful. Michael Davis did the original Honeyd port to Windows (thank you very much, Michael), but that version didn't keep up with Windows as Windows XP and later came out. Changes in Microsoft Windows, and a few other notorious bugs made it hard for me to ever recommend using Honeyd for Windows over the last year or so.
Instead, I'd recommend that people use the Unix/Linux version of Honeyd, but that meant learning new skills if you were a Windows-only person; or use Kfsensor (my favorite honeypot software).
Jesper Jurcenoks and his company took the time to do a complete re-write and free, update of Honeyd for Windows. Jesper even took the time to correct one bug that remains in the Linux/Unix version to make sure it didn't get replicated to the Windows version. netVigilance even offers a $99 GUI configurator, which can save you hours of configuration and troubleshooting. Thanks to Jesper and netVigilance (and Michael Davis for his earlier contributions) for allowing us Windows security types to play with Niels excellent honeypot software.
Posted by Roger Grimes on August 20, 2007 06:54 AM
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