Malware Honeypot Projects Merge 45
rebvend writes "eWeek is reporting that two of the biggest honeypot projects (mwcollect and nepenthes) have merged operations. A new meta-portal at mwcollect.org will become a top-level community covering malware collection efforts while nepenthes will become the official tool for malware collection."
MS Strider honeymonkey project (Score:5, Informative)
What Is Strider "HoneyMonkey"? [microsoft.com] is a differnet take on the problem. /. reported on the project... http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/18/224 0222 [slashdot.org]
Re:No Windows version ? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:I'm surely not the only slashdotter... (Score:1, Informative)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeypot_(electronic
The term "honeypot" is often understood to refer to the British children's character Winnie-the-Pooh, a stuffed bear who was lured into various predicaments by his desire for pots of honey.
During the Cold War it was an espionage technique, which inspired spy fiction. The term "honeypot" was used to describe the use of sexual entrapment to gain information. In a common scenario, a pretty female Communist agent would trick a male Western official into handing over secret information.
An alternative explanation for the term is a reflection of the sarcastic term for outhouses and other methods of collecting feces and other human waste in places that lack indoor plumbing. Honey is a euphemism for such waste, which is kept in a honeypot until it is picked up by a honey wagon and taken to a disposal area. In this usage, attackers are the equivalent of flies, drawn by the stench of sewage.