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Article: Why virtual honeypots are sweet; Authors discuss latest honeypot security tools.(Holz of University of Mannheim's Laboratory for Dependable Distributed Systems and Provos of Google)(Discussion)
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- Network World
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- August 10, 2007
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Byline: Ellen Messmer
A honeypot is simply a "closely monitored computing resource that we want to be probed, attacked or compromised," Niels
Provos and Thorsten Holz tell us in their new book, Virtual Honeypots.
Honeypots can capture information about illicit use, attacks and possibly detect vulnerabilities not well understood. The
latest models of them, virtual honeypots, are simply those that run in virtualized environments, such as VMware.
In an interview with Network World Senior Editor Ellen Messmer, Provos (a senior staff engineer at Google who's credited with
developing the open-source honeypot Honeyd) and ...