I found myself with a rare 30mins this evening to twiddle my thumbs (between making pasta bake for the family and time to be reading bedtime stories), and attempted to tick a random task off my to-do list. As you may have guessed from the title, feeding activity from a Cowrie SSH honeypot into Slack. […]
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DC44191 – More AWS Security Ramblings
As the world (or at least, myself) begins to emerge from Lockdown, in-person events are returning. For me, this was initiated with an excellent trip to Manchester, experiencing Matillion’s Super All Hands gathering, meeting with new colleagues that had until that point merely been faces on a collage of Zoom tiles. As part of the […]
AWS HoneyUsers
Deception technology and techniques are having a resurgence, expanding beyond the ‘traditional’ high/low- interaction honeypots, into honeyfiles, honeytokens and (as you may have guessed from title) honeyusers. Today is the culmination of a “what if?” idea I’d been thinking for years, actually started working on earlier in the year (but then 2020 happened), but is […]
Cowrie SSH Honeypot – AWS EC2 build script
Happy New Year all! Whilst eating FAR too much turkey and chocolates over the festive break, I’ve managed to progress a couple of personal projects on (between stints on the kids’ Scalectrix track, thanks Santa). Still tasks to do(*), but a working EC2 User-Data script to build to automate deployment Cowrie honeypot has reached MVP […]