- Title
- Weems: An extensible HTTP honeypot
- Creator
- Pearson, Deon, Irwin, Barry V W, Herbert, Alan
- Date
- 2017
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/428396
- Identifier
- vital:72508
- Identifier
- https://researchspace.csir.co.za/dspace/bitstream/handle/10204/9691/Pearson_19652_2017.pdf?sequence=1andisAllowed=y
- Description
- Malicious entities are constantly trying their luck at exploiting known vulnera-bilities in web services, in an attempt to gain access to resources unauthor-ized access to resources. For this reason security specialists deploy various network defenses with the goal preventing these threats; one such tool used are web based honeypots. Historically a honeypot will be deployed facing the Internet to masquerade as a live system with the intention of attracting at-tackers away from the valuable data. Researchers adapted these honeypots and turned them into a platform to allow for the studying and understanding of web attacks and threats on the Internet. Having the ability to develop a honeypot to replicate a specific service meant researchers can now study the behavior patterns of threats, thus giving a better understanding of how to de-fend against them. This paper discusses a high-level design and implemen-tation of Weems, a low-interaction web based modular HTTP honeypot sys-tem. It also presents results obtained from various deployments over a period of time and what can be interpreted from these results.
- Format
- 5 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Proceedings of Southern African Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (SATNAC), Pearson, D., Irwin, B.V. and Herbert, A., 2017. Weems: An extensible HTTP honeypot. Southern Africa Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (SA TNAC), Proceedings of Southern African Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (SATNAC) volume 2017 number 1 1 5 2017 Conference
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- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Southern Africa Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (SA TNAC) Statement (https://www.satnac.org.za/)
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RU Department of Computer Science
SDG 09. Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
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