I have spent part of the weekend at
Ph-Neutral, a mini-conference bringing together blackhat and whitehat people.
This year the organizers did an excellent job choosing a location: the conference took place on an island in the middle of Berlin called
"Die Insel". The island featured two different bars, room for talks and a cosy beach. What a nice location.
I am running a small
honeypot at my home dialup capturing unsolicited traffic. Today I found the time to view through its logs. Although I could not spot anything special, I had a good time examining the catch, such as various scans for proxies, relays and vulnerabilities, e.g.
GET http://www.woqianqi.cn/go.php HTTP/1.0
CONNECT mx3.mail2000.com.tw:25 HTTP/1.0
GET /cacti/cmd.php HTTP/1.0
GET /w00tw00t.at.ISC.SANS.DFind:)
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While not a professional tool for monitoring internet threats, a honeypot at home suffices to observe incoming cruft and, eventually, have a good time.
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