Honeynet Project

The Honeynet Project is an international security research organization, "dedicated to investigating the latest attacks, developing open source security tools to improve Internet security and learning how malicious hackers behave." With Chapters around the world, The Project volunteers have contributed to fight against malware (such as Confickr), discovered new attacks and created security tools used by businesses and government agencies. After pioneering the use of honeynet technologies more than 10 years ago, the organization continues to be on the cutting edge of security research by working to analyze the latest attacks and educating the public about threats to information systems across the world. The project itself is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.