Manufacturer of the PatriotBox HoneyPot server.

A hacker is lured, endured, and studied. One of the first examples of a honeypot. First published in 1992.

A program that acts as a honeypot for spammers who use spambots to harvest email addresses from Web sites.

Created to detect when anyone attempts a Back Orifice scan against your computer. Also detects attempted connections to other services, such as Telnet, FTP, SMTP, POP3 and IMAP2.

An open proxy honeypot (proxypot) that pretends to be an open proxy. Designed primarily to catch the mail spammer.

This is a short guide to build a GenII Honeynet Gateway, also called a Honeywall, under Linux, broaching the most common problems and providing several solutions and tips.

A toolkit designed to make it appear to attackers as if the system running DTK has a large number of widely known vulnerabilities.

Configuring and deploying Sink Hole Routers, which are the network equivalent of a honey pot.

Connection Redirection Applied to Production Honeypot.

Generates thousands of counterfeit 802.11b access points for use as part of a honeypot or to confuse Wardrivers, NetStumblers, Script Kiddies, and other undesirables.

The Florida Honeynet Project is a not for profit, all volunteer organization dedicated to honeynet research.

GHH emulates a vulnerable web application by allowing itself to be indexed by search engines. It is hidden from casual page viewers, but is found through the use of a crawler or search engine.

An Active Server Pages (ASP) compliant web server honey pot, that detects common attacks against web servers and logs the requests in a real-time viewer . It can recognize Buffer Overflows , Denial of Service attacks, Directory Transversal attacks, SQL Injection attacks , XSS attacks , Session hijacking attacks.

A system for automated generation of signatures for network intrusion detection systems (NIDSs).

Small daemon that creates virtual hosts on a network (honeypot). Can be used as a virtual honeynet, for network monitoring, or as a spam trap. For *BSD, GNU/Linux, and Solaris.

Wikisecure's honeyd page that describes the basic functionality and operation with self-explanatory examples.

Honeyd configuration wizard, a SQL Interface, and reports.

A community of organizations actively researching, developing and deploying Honeynets and sharing the lessons learned.

HSC is an analysis tool to view events on your personal honeynet. View and correlate events from Snort, TCPDump, Firewall, Syslog and Sebek logs.

Brazilian Honeypots Alliance. Includes tools to summaries honeyd logs, mydoom.pl (A perl script which emulates the backdoor installed by the Mydoom virus), and an OpenBSD LiveCD Honeypot.

Paper on the use of honeynets to learn more about botnets. Covers uses of botnets, how they work and how to track them.

Article discussing the creation of the Honeynet Project.

Information covering intrusion detection and prevention systems, research and production honeypots, and incident handling. Also provides general overview of network security issues.

An introduction to honeypots, the different types, and their value.

Techniques, tools and resources for conducting Honeypot Research and Forensic Investigation. White papers include monitoring VMware honeypots, apache web server honeypots, and VMware honeypot forensics.

White papers, mailing list and other resources related to honeypots.

An article about how to use VMware to produce honeypots to catch system intruders.

Index of over 75 papers on Honeypots.

A honeynet gateway on a bootable CDROM.

Impost can either act as a honey pot and take orders from a Perl script controlling how it responds and communicates with connecting clients; or it can operate as a packet sniffer and monitor incoming data to specified destination port supplied by the command-line arguments (pre-release version available).

This paper explains how to go about configuring VMware to deploy a Honeywall, combining the advantages offered by the Honeywall CDROM and the virtual environments.

A ready-to-run SMTP relay honeypot, written in pure Java.

An Introduction to second generation honeynets (honeywalls).

Tracking Botnets with help of Honeynets.

A program that creates a tarpit or, as some have called it, a "sticky honeypot".

Provides visualization of hack attempts against a honeypot server. Reports include attack intensity over time and attack types. Based on IDS data produced by snort.

A free, distributed, open-source project to help website administrators track, stop, and prosecute spam harvesters stealing email addresses from their sites.

Incident analysis for a compromised default honeypot installation of RedHat Linux 6.2. Includes design, configuration and log details for the compromised machine.

SCADA HoneyNet Project: Building Honeypots for Industrial Networks (SCADA, DCS, and PLC architectures).

LogIDS, LogAgent, SécurIT Intrusion Detection Toolkit, and ComLog (a cmd.exe wrapper)

Directory of articles, white papers, and documents on honeypots and other security topics.

Article discussing issues with Honeypot technology, focusing on dealing with the possibility of your Honeypot being detected (and potentially abused) by an attacker.

Article discussing methods hackers use to detect honeypots.

This two-part paper discusses how hackers discover, interact with, and sometimes disable honeypots at the system level and the application layer.

Honeypots that dynamically learn your network then deploy virtual honeypots that adapt to your network.

This paper evaluates the usefulness of using honeypots to fight Internet worms and perform counterattacks.

This paper evaluates the usefulness of using honeypots to fight spammers.

This article is about deploying and managing honeypots in large, distributed environments through the use of Honeypot Farms.

This paper discusses honeytokens, honeypots that are not computers, but rather digital entities that are stored in a restricted part of the network.

Article discussing the use of honeypot technology to combat attacks on wireless networks.

Low-interaction honeypot appliance.

A honeypot system and "Honeypot Exchange Program."

A tool to analyze honeyd-logfiles of the honeyd-daemon. Generates graphical and textual results from queries against the logfile data.

Website set up to deliver almost infinite numbers of bogus email addresses to email harvesting bots.

Independent non-profit research organization of security professionals dedicated to information security focused on honeynet technologies.

A collection of programs to deploy, run and analyse network and host simulations in IP networks.

Web page summarizing different commercial and freeware honeypots.

A system that redirects all hostile traffic from your production systems to a honeypot that is a partial mirror of your production system. Once switched, the would-be hacker is unknowingly attacking your honeypot instead of the real data.

The goal of this project is to organize dispersed honeypots across the Internet and share findings with the security community.

A Darknet is a portion of routed, allocated IP space in which no active services or servers seemingly reside. However, there is in fact include at least one server for real-time analysis or post-event network forensics.

A simple honey pot program based on iptables redirects and an xinetd listener.

Information on deploying a Virtual Honeynet based on Honeywall using VMware.

WebMaven is an intentionally broken web application. It is intended to be used in a safe legal environment (your own host) as a training tool, as a basic benchmark platform to test web application security scanners and as a Honeypot.