Excellent article about using Honeypots to learn about the sort of application threats that are prevalent today. The authors go into detail about how they conducted the study and walk the reader through the results. They cover the following set of topics:
- Code Injection
- Remote Code-Inclusion
- SQL Injection
- Cross-site Scripting
- Spam
- Blog Comment Spam
- Defacements
- Scanning Tools
- Botnet Recruitment
- Phishing
Excellent reading if you’re interested in Internet Security. Read here
