Release of Client Honeypot Capture-HPC v2.5.1

[christian.seifert () gmail com]

The Honeynet Project (http://www.honeynet.org) and School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science at Victoria 
University of Wellington (http://www.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/) are excited to announce the release of Capture-HPC v2.5.1. 
Capture-HPC is an innovative security product that is able to find and investigate the increasing problem of 
client-side computer attacks. This new software release aims at further improving the speed and scalability of the 
software allowing for large scale deployments of client honeypots. Capture-HPC is freely available from our web site 
at: https://projects.honeynet.org/capture-hpc/wiki. It is written and distributed under the GNU General Public License, 
v2. 

Capture-HPC is a computer security product that allows anyone to: investigate client-side computer attacks; security 
researchers to find and study malicious servers; virus and malware researchers to collect malware pushed by malicious 
servers; network administrators to monitor 
their systems for client-side attacks; and web site operators to monitor their web sites for unauthorized modifications 
with client- side attack code. 

With version v2.5.1, several new features were introduced: 
* Addition of preprocessor plug-in architecture. Preprocessor plug-in allows handling of input urls before they are 
passed onto Capture. For instance, this could be used to create a crawler or filtering plug-in. 
* Recording of process IDs for all state changes. This allows to the client plug-in to determine what URL the attack 
originated from even if multiple URLs are inspected.
* Exposure of a variety of performance related configuration values. This allows an operator to fine tune an 
installation of Capture to the hardware its running on. This leads to a more efficient use of available resources.
* Addition of intelligent revert cycle of virtual machines. A more scalable system results.
* Numerous optimizations and bug fixes.

Capture-HPC is freely available from our web site https://projects.honeynet.org/capture-hpc/wiki 
. It is written and distributed under the GNU General Public License, v2. A public mailing list is available at 
https://public.honeynet.org/mailman/listinfo/capture-hpcproviding   support and a forum to exchange configuration 
files, plug-ins, results, etc.

Special thanks to Josh Smith, Lasse Borup, Matthias Luft, David Watson, and Armin Garcia for donating their time to 
test and document Capture-HPC v2.5.1.

About The Honeynet Project 
Founded in 1999, The Honeynet Project (http://www.honeynet.org) is an international, non-profit (501c3) research 
organization dedicated to improving the security of the Internet at no cost to the public. With chapters around the 
world, our volunteers are firmly committed to the ideals of Open Source. Our goal, simply put, is to make a difference. 

About School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science at Victoria University of Wellington School of 
Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science at Victoria University of Wellington (http://www.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/) is one of 
New Zealand's leading centers of research in each of its teaching disciplines of mathematics, statistics, operations 
research and computer science. The School attracts large external research grants and provides a range of services to 
the broader community to enhance the application of mathematical, statistical and advanced information technology in 
New Zealand. We utilize the knowledge generated from this cutting-edge research to create challenging, interesting and 
practical courses. 

Contact Information: 
Christian Seifert, PhD Candidate, New Zealand Honeynet Project Lead, Christian.Seifert_at_gmail.com 

Related links: 
# http://www.honeynet.org 
# http://blog.honeynet.org 
# https://projects.honeynet.org/capture-hpc/wiki
 
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