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
Just a quick note to you let everybody know that the videos from 2011 Honeynet Project Security Workshop has been posted. The slides can be obtained at the same location.
Folks the submission deadline for the Forensic Challenge 7 – “Forensic Analysis of a Compromised System” - put up by Hugo Gonzalez from the Mexico Chapter and Guillaume Arcas from the French Chapter - has passed. We have received 16 submissions and will be announcing results on Friday, Apr 29th 2011. The winners will get a copy of the book “Virtual Honeypots - From Botnet Tracking to Intrusion Detection” written by Niels Provos and Thorsten Holz.
Tillmann Werner from the Giraffe Honeynet Project chapter just released the first version of “streams”, a tool for browsing, mining and processing TCP streams in pcap files. If you ever needed to process large pcap files on a session level, you will love this tool. Have a look at the README to get an impression of its
capabilities.
The README contains some sample output and tool description.
Tillmann’s talk “High Performance Sniffing” from The Honeynet Project public workshop covers this tool:
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.
Student applications run through to Friday April 8th at 19:00 UTC, so if you are a student interested in participating in GSoC 2011 with the Honeynet Project, please take a look at our GSoC 2011 project ideas and make the most of the remaining time to get involved. We cover a very wide range of projects, tools and technologies, so hopefully there is something available to interest everyone, whatever their experience.
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.
The Honeynet Project were delighted to have been successful again this year and to have been accepted as one of 173 organizations who will be mentoring GSoC 2011 student projects this summer! Many thanks go to Google for their continued support for FOSS (particularly the ever supportive Carol), and to all our members and potential students for their interest, support and enthusiasm so far.
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.
The Honeynet Project has been all over the media again lately, mostly due to our visualization research. Ben Reardon (@benreardon) from Australia Honeypot Project VOIP honeynet visualizations appeared on BoingBoing, Geek.com, SmartPlanet, ThreatPost and ZDNet France as well as on many other media venues.
However, the highest profile showing was in the “New Scientist” , leading to more then 100,000 views!
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.
I’m very pleased to confirm that the Honeynet Project have once again applied. Whilst we now patiently wait for Google to announce which organizations will be selected to participate on March 18th, interested prospective students can start looking at our our initial GSoC 2011 project ideas and find more information about getting involved with the Honeynet Project and Google Summer of Code 2011 here - including contact details for email and IRC. Please feel free to get in touch if you have any questions or project ideas.