Microsoft Proposes Personal Honeypots to Fend Off Hackers

[Guest]

Since attackers in a network cannot always be identified immediately and hacking methods tend to evolve faster than security features do, Microsoft proposes to trap intruders even in personal networks in honeypots.

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[Devoteicon]

Seriously Tom, fix the way you display pictures. It's annoying having to click more then once to enlarge 'em.

 

[gmarsack]

If everyone did this, I would imagine to some degree the level of threats would fade as attackers would shy away from a network that is baited.

 

[Onus]

What's the point? Until crackers face consequences for getting caught, the games will continue. Jail for a couple years, then a six-figure job, do not constitute consequences. Upon conviction, their heads need to be held in a bucket (the bottom of which says "GAME OVER!") to catch the mess when someone pulls the trigger.

 

[XmortisX]

Eww... the pic is all blurry when you enlarge it. But I get the idea, this sounds good however I don't think once MS makes this big they won't find a way to disable the "honey pot" and continue the attack. The question is what if hacker sniff network realize there is a honey pot then returns later after he/she discovers which is fake or real? It would take a admin a considerable amount of time to configure fake contacts ect. ect. To make the info as legit as possible. IMO

 

[redeye]

but really FBI/police officer/nbc news/sir... that child porn is not mine!... it is just there in my personal honeypot to catch hackers!!.. honestly!!! LOL / facetious (look up the definition... applies perfectly)

 

[memadmax]

No... honeypots are used in "drive by" port scanning... something that hackers hardly do now... it's much easier to plant malicous code on porn sites and let the victim come to them....
Back in the early 00's this would be feasible as china was doing alot of driveby's... but now china seems to have switched gears and targeting known "high value" corporate/government networks.... The rest of the hackers are lazy and do the above porn site method/canned email phishing.....

 

[WyomingKnott]

I love item number 108 in the patent application.

 

[JohnnyLucky]

Being a senior citizen the term honeypot has a completely different meaning.

 

[WyomingKnott]

A "particularly popular visitor attraction which attracts tourists, and sometimes locals, in large numbers?"

OM/WC again

 

[freggo]

Patenting that ?
I've been using this on numerous sites to catch and log IP addresses of bots, spammers, proxy servers and other undesirable visitors for years, then call a routine from global.asa (in the case of ASP sites) for example to do a quick check on what to do with the new visitor.
Never thought about getting a patent on something like that.
Did not even suspect that was possible.

 

[Guest]

Now I'll finally be able to catch that dastardly Winnie the Pooh and end his nefarious hacking once and for all!

 

[chewy1963]

[citation][nom]WyomingKnott[/nom]A "particularly popular visitor attraction which attracts tourists, and sometimes locals, in large numbers?" OM/WC again[/citation]

Actually we old timers remember the meaning as "the place where you eat out", you know right next to the "stink"....

 

[WyomingKnott]

Chewy1963

I was playing dense.

 

[hetneo]

I think that M$ should harden their OS before submitting patent applications for techniques that are already in use, and are actually developed because of how increasingly insecure is every new generation of M$ products.