A group of 30 computer security researchers who set up inexpensive "fake" networks to observe how hackers behave as they break into them are finding out about new software vulnerabilities and warning the public.
The security professionals, calling themselves The Honeynet Project, quietly maintain a distributed network of Windows NT, Linux, Sun Sparc servers and desktops accessible via the Internet to monitor how hackers go after various operating systems. As research volunteers operating on a shoestring, they've collected a wealth of data - and at times found out about new attack tools and exploits of the "blackhat" underworld of hackers.
In January, for instance, the Honeynet Project discovered hackers could use a management feature called the CDE Subprocess Control Service to take root control of Solaris.
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