The German Honeynet Project just released a paper on the usage of honeynets to explore botnets: Know your enemy: Tracking Botnets. Besides the description of the use of honeynets to do the tracking, the paper also does a great job in providing insights to the “why” and “how” background information of botnets.

Interestingly a lot of the more successful bots (Angobot, SDBot, DSNX) adopted the GPL as development model. I wonder if they have sourceforge.net project pages?

The last three weeks of my life were pretty much dominated by one single issue: The Move (tm). After collecting innumerable banana cartons (which are btw perfect for moving), living in between half packed boxes, exploiting all our friends and hurting my back on a daily basis it is finally done – the move is (almost) complete. Yesterday we said goodbye to the old apartment.

There is still no telephone or internet in the new flat and 2 (out of 3 1/2) rooms are still inhabitable but the new place already feels like home.