Skip to main content

Securing Your Network From Hackers With HoneyPots?

First thing any hacker would do to compromise any network is gathering information passively and seeking vulnerable services as well as ports. And this is where Honeypots play a role of fake vulnerability in network.
Honeypots are fake theoretically, but not practically. They are real vulnerabilities in Network intentionally kept open & designed to gather information about the possible attack / attacker.



How Honeypots Work?

This fake vulnerability attracts any hacker towards it & he would try to compromise it. The Honeypot will itself stores the data regarding how hacker is trying to break it, what tools he might be using, his intentions, keystrokes and many such things.

This information is useful to network security administrator in many ways. Generally the attack is not done in one shot. Hackers try some initial attacks. And based on its results he hacks into major network flaws after some days.

So Honeypots help security people to secure the networks from the information they have gathered from initial attack. They are called as honey pots only because they are made available in network of vulnerabilities like Honey Comb.

Are Honeypots Vulnerable itself?

Sure they are. There are lot of smart ass hackers – who if anyhow come to know that they are dealing with Honeypots, They can totally screw things up.

Because, they are actually dealing with the system file in the network. So they are already inside it without any breakdown. If they can compromise this fake vulnerability Honeypot i.e. that they can surely break in to the system in less time.

Vulnerability is a vulnerable after all & Honeypots too. But there are very rare chances for attacker to identify it & needs great experience. So, planting Honeypot into any network architecture would be a more secure scenario for any host or network.
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Top 15 Security / Hacking Tools / Utilities / Software

1. Nmap I think everyone has heard of this one, recently evolved into the 4.x series. Nmap (“Network Mapper”) is a free open source utility for network exploration or security auditing. It was designed to rapidly scan large networks, although it works fine against single hosts. Nmap uses raw IP packets in novel ways to determine what hosts are available on the network, what services (application name and version) those hosts are offering, what operating systems (and OS versions) they are running, what type of packet filters/firewalls are in use, and dozens of other characteristics. Nmap runs on most types of computers and both console and graphical versions are available. Nmap is free and open source. Can be used by beginners (-sT) or by pros alike (–packet_trace). A very versatile tool, once you fully understand the results. Get Nmap Here 2. Nessus Remote Security Scanner Recently went closed source, but is still essentially free. Works with a client-server frame...
Post a Comment
Read more

How To Hack Gmail Account Password Working 100 Percent

1st.. NOTE: This is for Educational Purpose Only. hackingfreaks.in is not responsible for any damage done by You. Things That you Need for Hacking Gmail Account Password: 1. Gmail Phisher 2. Free Web hosting Site 3. Little bit of manual Work :P Introduction to Phishing:- If you know little bit of Hacking then Its must for you know About Phishing i.e What is Phishing and how it works and most important How you can protect yourself from getting into the Trap. I will try to explain all of these in my article. First of all What are Phish pages and what is phishing?? Phish pages are basically the fake pages or virtual pages that looks similar to the original website Page. The only difference is the batch program running in the background i.e Original Webpage sends requests to Gmail server while Phish Page sends request to hacker’s php server. Now Phishing is a password hacking technique commonly used by hackers using phish pages that looks similar to original web page. The only...
5 comments
Read more

Happy Club Active User Badge

Grab Happy Club Active User Badge : Copy Code From Here : http://tinypaste.com/08b3d Navigate to the new orkut interface by clicking the "Try new orkut" button on the top. Skip this step if you are already on the new UI Click the "home" button on the top which will land you on the orkut home page Now point your mouse cursor on to the text box so as to display the text formatting option on the top of it and choose "HTML" from the right hand corner of it.   Paste(Ctrl+V) the code in the text box, set the privacy of the scrap to "Public" and click the "Post" button.   Fill the captcha and press "Ok"   Done :)
Post a Comment
Read more