Sebastian Poeplau

March 27, 2013

Ghost 0.3 released

Today I’ve released version 0.3 of the Ghost USB honeypot, which introduces a lot of new features, including a completely rewritten core for better malware detection. […]
December 18, 2012

Two roads diverged in Ghost development

Over the last few weeks I’ve basically rewritten the core of Ghost, our system for USB malware detection. While the new approach promises to be much […]
October 16, 2012

Two more of our projects selected for Magnificent7

Rapid7 have announced the selected projects for the second round of their Magnificent7 program. The program sponsors open source efforts in the area of IT security […]
September 4, 2012

Ghost version 0.2 released

We’ve just released version 0.2 of the Ghost USB honeypot for Windows XP and Windows 7 with a lot of great new features. You can download […]
August 7, 2012

Want to Use Ghost in Your Own Setup?

This is a short introduction to one of the features that the upcoming Ghost 0.2 will offer. I expect to release the new version in late […]
July 14, 2012

Current Status of Ghost

As the first half of the HP summer of code has passed, I’d like to give a short update on the current status of the Ghost […]
July 10, 2012

Synchronous Communication between Kernel and User Space

In this post I’d like to describe some aspects of the communication between kernel and user mode in the Ghost USB honeypot. More specifically, I’ll focus […]
June 25, 2012

Open Source Licensing Madness

Before we released the Ghost USB honeypot as open source software, we had quite some trouble to apply the GPL to our case. Since there wasn’t […]
June 14, 2012

Ghost USB honeypot released

I’m very pleased to announce that we have released the first public version of the Ghost USB honeypot. Ghost is a honeypot for malware that uses […]