ORGANIZATION

Active members: - Sébastien Tricaud - Guillaume Arcas - Anthony Desnos - Franck Guénichot - François-René Hamelin - Christophe Grenier

DEPLOYMENTS We have following technologies deployed:

- Kippo on honeycloud. Goal of this deployment is to provide a centralized instance of Kippo & share findings, logs, collected data. - HoneyProxy on honeycloud. - Honeeebox

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

* New tools => HoneyProxy as part of GSoC 2012. => FAUP (formerly furl) => OpenNormalizer => PhotoRec/TestDisk => A.R.E. / AndroGuard

The UK Chapter’s annual status report for 2011/2012 has been published at http://www.ukhoneynet.org/2012/12/04/uk-honeynet-project-chapter-annual-status-report-for-20112012/.

ENISA (The European Network and Information Security Agency) under the leadership of CERT Polska has published report on honeypots. Its a hands-on guide on the various honeypot technologies out there looking at various operational aspects, such as extensibility, reliability, ease of deployment, etc. If you are considering running a honeypot, this is a must read! Check it out at http://www.enisa.europa.eu/media/press-releases/new-report-by-eu-agency-enisa-on-digital-trap-honeypots-to-detect-cyber-attacks. Great job, ENISA!

2013 HONEYNET PROJECT ANNUAL WORKSHOP
10-12 FEBRUARY 2013 IN DUBAI, UAE

DUBAI, 26 NOV 2012: This three-day event features an exceptional collection of international security professionals presenting the latest research tools and findings in malware analysis. The twelfth annual workshop will be held at The Address Dubai Mall Hotel on the 10th through 12th of February, 2013, with sponsorship and support from the UAE Honeynet Project chapter, United Arab Emirates Computer Emergency Response Team (aeCERT), and the Pakistan Honeynet Project chapter. The workshop includes one full day of briefings and two full days of hands-on tutorial trainings. Founded in 1999, The Honeynet Project is a non-profit international research organization dedicated to improving the security of the Internet at no cost to the public.

ORGANIZATION

• Faiz Ahmad Shuja is founder and chapter lead of Pakistan Chapter and an active member since 2003. He is responsible for the management and maintenance of HP infrastructure as Chief Infrastructure Officer.

• Muhammad Omar Khan is an active member and assists in various Honeynet deployment efforts.

• Rehan Ahmed is our active member. He assists in the management of Pakistan chapter and HP infrastructure.

• Omar Khan has been involved in attacks analyses and reporting.

ORGANIZATION
• Brian Hay (Chapter Lead, Full Member)
• Kara Nance (BoD Member, Full Member)
• Chris Hecker
• Clark Harshbarger
• Matt Bishop
• Wesley McGrew
• Lucas McDaniel

DEPLOYMENTS
• 1 Honeeebox in Alaska
• Purchased multiple other Honeeeboxes available for third party deployments
• Periodic Dionaea deployments in both public and private clouds for student and demonstration use.

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

1. Ongoing development of hypervisor-based honeypot monitoring using virtual machine introspection (VMI) on Xen and KVM platforms.
2. Tools for deployment and management of virtual machines

ORGANIZATION
Ahmad Alajail – Chapter Lead
Ahmad Hassan – Member
Anastasios Monachos - New Member
Andrew Marrington – New Member
Majid Al Ali - Member

DEPLOYMENTS
we have successfully change all of our distributed Honeypots from Nepenthes to Dionaea and upgrade our honeypharm with reporting mechanism and the additional information received from Dionaea.

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
As we reached end of 2012 we managed to upgrade our research lab with new hardware’s that can be used for the new projects. Currently we are looking into Glastop and Spampot and the changes that might be required to utilize the output result/findings.

ORGANIZATION Last year our chapter membership has gone through several changes: some members moved to new places and new positions and are no longer a part of the honeynet chapter, while others (Natalia Stakhanova) came back.

Our current members include Ali Ghorbani, Natalia Stakhanova, Hadi Shiravi (Unversity of New Brunswick) and Sami Guirguis (Toronto).

DEPLOYMENTS

We currently have deployed a cluster of server honeypots and SGNET sensor. Both are primarily used for capturing botnet network traffic.

Spartan Devils Chapter Status Report For 2012

ORGANIZATION

Our current membership includes: Gail Joon Ahn (Arizona State University) Tom Holt, (Michigan State University) Max Kilger, and Napoleon Paxton, We are also happy to report that we added Paul Neff to our roster in the last few months.

DEPLOYMENTS
In addition to all tools from honeynet site, we also installed Sandboxie on Vmware ESXi to automatically test malware and reset VMs.

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 over the course of a year and provides them with Rapid7’s technological and marketing expertise.

In March, Cuckoo and Androguard - both developed by members of the Honeynet Project - were chosen, and today’s press release revealed two more of our members’ projects to be supported under the Magnificent7 program.