honeypots

[Byron Sonne]

> Any tips or advice greatly appreciated.

Subscribe to some/all of the SecurityFocus mailing lists: 
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive

I did and it is quite entertaining and I've learned a good bit of stuff. 
There are tons of excellent docs out there, I think a dude called Lance 
Spitzner does some serious work with them.

There's something called the Honeynet Project 
(http://www.honeynet.org/misc/project.html) that does some pretty 
hardcore stuff.

Also, check out honeyd, it "is a small daemon that creates virtual hosts 
on a network. The hosts can be configured to run arbitrary services, and 
their personality can be adapted so that they appear to be running 
certain operating systems" (http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/honeyd/)

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