Law Enforcement Agencies

Critical Thinking: Hands-On Project – HoneyBOT®

HoneyBOT® is a simple honeypot for beginners to use. Honeypots can give you a good idea of how many people are probing your machine for weaknesses. Without a honeypot, you may not be able to tell if anyone is scanning your machine.

Submit your answer the following questions:

• What impact would more open ports have on the ability of your honeypot to attract hackers?
• Can hackers tell that you have a honeypot running?
• Do they have honeypots for spammers to keep them from harvesting emails from your webpages?
• Do you think law enforcement agencies (e.g., CIA, FBI, NSA, etc.) in the United States run honeypots to track criminal behavior?

Your well-written paper should meet the following requirements:

• Be two to four pages in length
• Contain an illustrative table or a diagram created from properly cited external references
• Include two credible external references in addition to the textbook
• Formatted according to Saudi Electronic University and APA writing guidelines.