Student applications for Google Summer of Code 2010 closed at 19:00 UTC tonight, with the usual last minute rush of submissions (but thankfully no timezone confusion this time). We had thought that receiving three student applications in the final minute, including one with 8.4 seconds to spare was cutting it close, but Plan9 apparently had one lucky applicant with 1.23 seconds remaining on the clock! That must set a new GSoC record… ;-)

On March 29th Google officially began accepting applications from students for Google Summer of Code 2010, which the Honeynet Project is very exicted to be participating in again this year as a mentoring organisation. We’ve recently updated our project ideas page and mentor information and students have until 19:00 UTC on Friday April 9th to apply (you can either chose one of our ideas or propose your own).

If you are interested in applying to be a student and you haven’t already said hello on #gsoc-honeynet on irc.freenode.net then please pop by if you have any questions. Most people find speaking to a project mentor before they apply helps them understand more about what is required to write a good application and we are always happy to answer questions (although please remember that since our members come from chapters all round the world it might take a few hours for someone to respond.

Challenge 3 of the Honeynet Project Forensic Challenge - titled “Banking Troubles” - is now online and we invite you to participate. Challenge 3 - provided by Josh Smith and Matt Cote from The Rochester Institute of Technology Chapter, Angelo Dell’Aera from the Italian Chapter and Nicolas Collery from the Singapore Chapter - is a bit different from our previous challenges in that we do not ask you to analyze a pcap network trace, but rather a memory image from a virtual machine. This should make for an interesting challenge!

Much to the excitement of students all around the world, tonight Google officially announced which mentor organisations have been accepted for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2010, and the Honeynet Project are delighted to have been selected as one of 151 such mentoring organisations! You can view the full list here:

http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/program/accepted_orgs/google/gsoc2010

Fingers crossed we’ll that with Google’s continued support we’ll have the chance to once again meet some very motivated students, create some exciting new projects and gain some great new members over the coming months.

Well, Google Summer of Code 2010 is now officially up and running, with the deadline for organisation applications closing 45 minutes ago. Happily the Honeynet Project’s application for GSoC 2010 was submitted on time, so all we can do now is sit back and wait until March 18th to find out if we are one of the lucky organisations selected this year.

In the mean time, you can find out more about The Honeynet Project’s hopefully successful organisation application in the GSoC 2010 section of our website. This includes background information, ideas for potential project (although students are also free to propose their own), our student application form and how to get in touch with us if we are accepted by Google. You can also read more about the various successful projects from GSoC 2009 in this summary report.

Folks, its a frosty Tuesday morning in Seattle and the deadline for submissions to the forensic challenge 2010/2 “browsers under attack” has passed. We received a total of 34 for submissions from folks all over the world. Nicolas from the Singapore chapter will be judging the submissions in the next few days. We will announce the top three winners on Monday, 22nd of March 2010. Alongside, we will post their submissions as well as our sample solution. Since we were using a web form for this challenge, we will not acknowledge receipt of each submission. If you are unsure whether submission was successful, please email [email protected] and we can check the submission database.) Also, if you have any suggestions on how to improve the forensic challenge, please let us know.

We have decided to extend the submission deadline for our second forensic challenge - “browsers under attack” to Monday, 8th of March 2010. This gives you another week to participate in our latest challenge. Subsequently, the announcement of the results will also move another week to Monday, 22nd of March 2010.

I have contacted all the folks that have already submitted their solution to us about this change. They, of course, have the opportunity to resubmit their solution, if they so wish, until the new submission deadline on the 8th. (If you have submitted and did not receive an email from me, please contact us at [email protected])

Last year the Honeynet Project entered Google Summer of Code (http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/program/home/google/gsoc2009) for the first time. We received 9 Google funded student places and also funded 3 more places of our own, all of whom successfully completed their projects in a wide range of areas of open source security R&D. You can find out more in our Google SoC 2009 section of our website (https://www.honeynet.org/gsoc).

The time-line for GSoC 2010 has now been made public (http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2010/timeline) and organisational applications will be held between March 8 - March 13th, with the Honeynet Project hoping to be accepted for at least as many student places as last year.

Hi everybody,

our first Scan of the Month Challenge in 2010 is over! We received 91 submissions in total, and some parts of the solutions are so interesting that I would like to publicly highlight them in this post. Now that the winners are announced (Congratulations Ivan, Franck, and Tareq!), I think I also owe you an explanation why we asked the specific questions and what we expected as answers. I am sure you will be surprised how many pieces of information you can dig up in a plain pcap - I was indeed when I had a look at the solutions we received. Enjoy!

Monday, February 1st, the submission deadline for challenge 1 of the Forensic Challenge 2010 has passed. We have received 88 submissions and Tillmann who has been judging them mentioned there were some excellent submissions in the mix. Tillmann will be highlighting some answers when we announce the results on the 15th of February.

I have acknowledged receipt of each submission received via email. If you have not received a confirmation mail from me, please contact me at [email protected] and I will check whether we have received it.