Techware Labs Header

Forums have moved

See this announcement for more details, or just go directly there.

  #1  
Old 08-08-2002, 11:30 AM
Keefe Keefe is offline
Administrator
 
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 2,337
Send a message via ICQ to Keefe Send a message via AIM to Keefe Send a message via MSN to Keefe Send a message via Yahoo to Keefe
Default Term of the Day: honeypot

An Internet-attached server that acts as a decoy, luring in potential hackers in order to study their activities and monitor how they are able to break into a system. Honeypots are designed to mimic systems that an intruder would like to break into but limit the intruder from having access to an entire network. If a honeypot is successful, the intruder will have no idea that s/he is being tricked and monitored. Most honeypots are installed inside firewalls so that they can better be controlled, though it is possible to install them outside of firewalls. A firewall in a honeypot works in the opposite way that a normal firewall works: instead of restricting what comes into a system from the Internet, the honeypot firewall allows all traffic to come in from the Internet and restricts what the system sends back out.
By luring a hacker into a system, a honeypot serves several purposes:

-The administrator can watch the hacker exploit the vulnerabilities of the system, thereby learning where the system has weaknesses that need to be redesigned.
-The hacker can be caught and stopped while trying to obtain root access to the system.
-By studying the activities of hackers, designers can better create more secure systems that are potentially invulnerable to future hackers.
Reply With Quote
  #2  
Old 08-08-2002, 07:13 PM
Omega Omega is offline
Administrator
 
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Minneapolis, MN, USA
Posts: 957
Send a message via ICQ to Omega Send a message via AIM to Omega Send a message via MSN to Omega Send a message via Yahoo to Omega
Default

I don't understand how they'd convince the router which incoming requests to direct to the honeypot, and which requests to direct to the real server that needed to handle incoming requests.
Reply With Quote
Reply


Thread Tools Search this Thread
Search this Thread:

Advanced Search
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

vB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Forum Jump


All times are GMT -5. The time now is 08:19 PM. Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.6.5
Copyright ©2000 - 2025, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Forum style by ForumMonkeys.