The Honeynet Project

Folks, Google has just announced the accepted projects on the GSoc website. We had an excellent line up of students and proposals this year and were able to accept 12 projects! Thanks for all the students who have applied this year and congratulations to all accepted!

Christian

With GSoC 2011 student applications having been open for the past week, we've been having a number of interesting discussions with potential students on both #gsoc2011-honeynet on irc.freenode.net and on our public GSoC mailing list and this summer is already looking to have many exciting project ideas.

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The 2011 Annual Honeynet Project workshop was hosted in Paris, France from 21-25 March 2011. For the first time, we included a open public day. We hope this becomes a permanent fixture, as the feedback from attendees was excellent. The slides for this event can be found here. As well as the presentations, there was a "Capture the Flag" exercise that was occurring throughout the day.

The Australian Chapter contributed to the workshop by presenting on VOIP security during the public day and a demonstration on creating time animated geographic heatmaps of malicious IP's.

Highlights for me were:

• Learning about the research that many chapters are doing in the mobile malware space, particularly within the Android platform. Mobile malware is one of the Honeynet project's priority research areas.
• Many ideas and feedback on data visualization techniques.
• The growing awareness of the need to mature our data analysis capability, in order to compliment our already impressive data collection technologies.
• The many break-out workshops, including some very productive sessions for our upcoming Google Summer of Code program.
• And of course the food, forging new friendships and refreshing old ones with many HP members from around the globe.

Thanks, and congratulations go to all those Honeynet project members involved in organizing this event, and thanks to the ESIEA Engineering School in Paris for providing the facility.

Folks, challenge 7 - forensic analysis of a compromised server - put up by Hugo Gonzalez from the Mexico Chapter and Guillaume Arcas from the French Chapter is in full swing. Submissions are due by March 31st, so if you want to participate, you have 5 days left. We award little prizes for the top three submissions! Hope to see your submission.

Christian

Our annual workshop in Paris got off to the perfect start this weekend when Google went live with the new look GSoC 2011 Melange site and announced which lucky organizations had been accepted as mentoring orgs for GSoC 2011.

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Folks, we had a great day at the first-ever public Honeynet Project Security Workshop yesterday with many excellent presentations by our members from around the globe. The presentations ranged from deep technical dives around shellcode detection and mobile malware reverse engineering to views on social dynamics of attackers and ethics of computer security research.

Further, we hosted a small capture-the-flag/forensic challenge competition, which received plentiful participation - especially with the younger crowd.

We hope that everybody enjoyed the workshop. If you were not able to make it to the workshop this year, we have attached the slides to this blog post. Hope to see you again in 2012.

Christian Seifert
CEO, The Honeynet Project

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23:00 UTC Friday March 11th was the first deadline for Google Summer of Code 2011, and the cut off point for organizations interesting in participating to complete their org application.

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Has it really been another year already? Having really enjoyed our experience as a successful mentoring organization in Google Summer of Code 2009 and Google Summer of Code 2010, The Honeynet Project is very pleased to announce that we will once again be applying to be accepted this year as a potential mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2011 (note the changed URL for GSoC 2011).

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