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Project Honeypot

Started by Metallica , Oct 12 2006 11:27 AM

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#1
Metallica

Posted 12 October 2006 - 11:27 AM

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A very interesting article by the BBC.

http://news.bbc.co.u...ogy/6035455.stm

The idea of letting the PC get infected was to see exactly what nasty programs hit our machine and how easy it was to recover from infection.

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admin

Posted 12 October 2006 - 02:22 PM

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24,639 posts

Sounds like any other day here in our staff underground bunker. :whistling:

Cleaning up the PC proved impossible. It was lucky we could just revert to an earlier configuration. If the honeypot had been a home PC almost everything stored on it, pictures, e-mails, might have been lost.

Maybe not impossible, but not easy.