IDS: Re: RES: Protocol Anomaly Detection IDS - Honeypots

["Mike Shaw" <mike () shawnuff net>]

> For example, you create a word document that has the title of payroll
> or 'research and development'.  You put whatever fluff you want 
> in the
> document, and give it a "tracking number", such as 14A8478bG98734T90AAZ.
This is something I've been doing on my production networks for a couple years now, but at more than the wire level.

Think:
Excel spreadsheets of bogus usernames and passwords.
Fake info being passed over AIM and other cleartext protocols on a hub.
Bogus customer records in a banking app.
Bogus hosts in host lists.
File names that should never be in a directory scan.
False DNS entries such as "accounting.domain.com"

The possibilities are endless.

-Mike

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