Out Of The Box

Challenge 4 of the Honeynet Project Forensic Challenge – titled “VoIP” – is now live. This challenge 4 – provided by Ben Reardon from the Australian and Sjur Eivind Usken from Norwegian Chapter – takes you into the realm of voice communications on the Internet. VoIP with SIP is becoming the de-facto standard. As this [...]

Honeynet Project Challenge 2010/3 – “Banking Troubles” has just been posted and is to investigate a memory image of an infected virtual machine. The challenge has been provided by Josh Smith and Matt Cote from The Rochester Institute of Technology Chapter, Angelo Dell’Aera from the Italian Chapter and Nicolas Collery from the Singapore Chapter. Submit [...]

Challenge 2 of the Honeynet Project Forensic Challenge has just been posted. The challenge has been provided by Nicolas Collery from the Singapore Chapter and Guillaume Arcas from the French Chapter and is titled browsers under attack. Submission deadline is March 1st and results will be released on Monday, March 15th 2010. Small prizes will [...]

After several years without any Honeynet Project Challenges, there will finally be new Forensic Challenges starting next Monday (January 18th, 2010). Here is the official announcement. I am very happy to announce the Honeynet Project Forensic Challenge 2010. The purpose of the Forensic Challenges is to take learning one step farther. Instead of having the [...]

A new series of papers is available from the Honeynet Project: “Know Your Tools” deals with specific types of honeypots and explains how to use them. The first paper in this series deals with Picviz, a tool to visualize data based on parallel coordinates plots. Picviz is a parallel coordinates plotter which enables easy scripting [...]

Few days ago I started a new really exciting experience by joining the Honeynet Project. This really short post is just for saying thank you to Lance Spitzner for the umpteenth time for the opportunity he offered me. With the hope to be able to contribute as best as I can!