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In the Land of Milk and Honeypots, part fourby jefbags

Virtually a server…

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As noted in my previous entries, I have been messing around with and documenting the creation of a honeypot server and environs, and the use of tools and techniques to analyze activity. In the last post I set up the server and did basic hardening. In this post, I will finish the set up of the virtual machines and install the Modern Honey Network (MHN) application.

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In the Land of Milk and Honeypots, part threeby jefbags

Let’s set up the server…

As noted in my previous entries, I have been messing around with and documenting the creation of a honeypot server and environs, and the use of tools and techniques to analyze activity. In the last post I set up the router using OpenWRT. In this post, I will outline what was done to build the machine and setting up the base of the server environment.

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Book Report: First, Break All the Rulesby jefbags

What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently!

I want to capture some notes and interesting concepts I’ve learned from reading the book “First, Break All the Rules” by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman (Copyright © 1999 by the Gallup Organization). The book represents over twenty five years of research conducted by the Gallup Organization. They interviewed millions of employees and managers in order to find out what makes the most successful manager. They asked hundreds of different questions, on every conceivable aspect of the workplace, job duties, workplace satisfaction, management style etc. They also collected metrics and other performance data on a cross section of twelve distinct industries, analyzing scores of things such as productivity, profitability, employee retention, and customer satisfaction. They then took all of this survey info and data, overlayed some statistical and analytical methodology, and boiled down managerial success to twelve basic questions. These then can be further divided into 3 basic sections of employee and team maturity.

So what are the 12 magic questions on which managerial success hinges? Here’s what they came up with…

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In the Land of Milk and Honeypots, part twoby jefbags

Hardening the OpenWRT device…

As noted in my previous entry, the purpose of this series of posts is to document the creation of a honeypot, and the use of tools and techniques to analyze activity. In this post, I will continue configuring the OpenWRT router, lock down some of the settings, and also set up some NAT’s and open ports.

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In the Land of Milk and Honeypots, part oneby jefbags

Setting the stage…

Ok, hello. The purpose of this article is document the creation of a honeypot on my home network safely, and show some of the traffic and activities that are captured and analyzed. It might go without saying that this is a potentially dangerous thing to do, and may jeopardize my other personal devices, and also get me in trouble with my ISP. That being understood, safety is the most important concern in this exercise. Where applicable, active monitoring, logging and alerting will be used to ensure manage any issues.

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