Honeypots in Blackhat Mode and its Implications
Honeypot is a recent developed computer security concept which uses active offense to against attacks from Blackhats (people with evil or illegal intents like hackers and virus-producers). It lures hackers to attack a seemly vulnerable but well observed computer system in order to learn about the tactics and tools used by the attackers so that we may improve the system security accordingly. However, a system developed with noble intentions may sometimes be used in evil applications. In this paper, we will discuss the consequences and implications of Honeypots being used with evil intents. A Honeypot system may be set up by Blackhats to lure common Internet users to use a fake system in order to gain valuable information, like credit card numbers, from these users. Implications of such possible usages may damage the credibility of services provided in the Internet, especially those involving payment transactions and sensitive information exchanges. Unless we find ways to avoid such misusages, the consumer trust of E-commerce, E-health and E-government depending on the use of Internet services may be severely hampered.
Honeypots Intrusion detection systems Network security
Chunming Rong Geng Yang
Department of Electrical and Computer and Engineering Stavanger University College, P.O.Box 8002, N- Department of Computer Science and Technology Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Na
国际会议
成都
英文
185-188
2003-08-27（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）