The Honeynet Project has appointed Ali Ikinci as the new CEO. 

We wish to thank Faiz Ahmad Shuja for leading the project over the past years, and welcome Ali for accepting the challenge. 

Founder and current leader of the Turkish Chapter, Ali is a longtime Honeynet Project member and contributor: he co-authored research papers on malicious website detection with low-interaction honeyclients and on honeypots for the Internet of Things. Born and raised in Germany, Ali is also an established professional in the Information Security field, with broad experience as a Chief Security Analyst, Product Manager, Senior IT consultant and Entrepreneur.

We are excited to announce the release of mitmproxy 5.2, a free and open source interactive HTTPS proxy! As the first part of his Google Summer of Code (GSoC) at the Honeynet Project, our student Martin Plattner (@MartinPlattnr) has completely revamped mitmproxy’s replacement feature, which is a powerful tool to modify and redirect HTTP messages.

As a small demonstration, Martin showed us how we can make these turbulent times much more bearable with a simple mitmproxy invocation:

The Honeynet Project recently appointed a new Chief Research Officer, Tamas Lengyel.  We want to thank again Lukas Rist for leading and growing our research over the past years, and welcome Tamas that accepted the role.

Tamas is Chapter Lead of Malware Analytics at Scale (MAS) and has been an active GSoC mentor over several years now with Honeynet. In his day job he is Senior Security Researcher at Intel, where he is focusing on low-level system security research, primarily working with hypervisors and firmware. He is a maintainer of the Xen Project Hypervisor, LibVMI and the DRAKVUF binary analysis system. Tamas received his PhD from the University of Connecticut and regularly publishes at top-tier academic conferences. He gave talks at conferences such as BlackHat, CCC and Microsoft Digital Crime Consortium.