Deployment of Kippo SSH Honeypot on Ubuntu Linux | Linux Today

Deployment of Kippo SSH Honeypot on Ubuntu Linux

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Lubos Rendek
Feb 5, 2013

Do you feel that someone is attempting to access you server? To find out, you can deploy a honeypot within your system to help you ease your paranoia by either confirming or dismissing your initial believe. As an example you can start the Kippo SSH honey pot, which allows you to monitor brute-force attempts, collect up today exploits and malware. Kippo also automatically records hacker’s shell session, which you can replay to explore various hacking techniques and later use this gathered knowledge to harden your production server. Another reason why to install a honeypot is to take away an attention from your production server. In this tutorial we will show how to deploy a Kippo SSH honeypot on the Ubuntu server.

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Lubos Rendek

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