• Keeping the Gateway Contained

    Once the Gateway was showing me real traffic, the next problem was making sure it could…

  • What the First Traffic Looked Like

    The first recorded traffic was not dramatic at first. Some connections appeared and disappeared within a…

  • The First Services

    Once the Gateway was running on antiX, the next question was what to put on it.…

  • Setting Up the Gateway

    Once I knew the old Gateway could still be useful, the next job was turning it…

  • The Dumpster Find

    The next part of this story started with a computer I had almost forgotten about. Around…

  • From Alerts to Evidence

    An alert is useful because it gets your attention. It is not evidence by itself. When…

  • A Honeypot Is Only as Good as Its Logs

    Putting a honeypot online is the easy part. Before long, scanners will find it and the…

  • Setting Up the ESP32 Honeypot

    In the previous posts, I showed the hardware, some of the activity it captured, and the…

  • What the ESP32 Honeypot Captured

    Once I put the ESP32 honeypot online, I did not have to wait long for something…

  • Building the ESP32 Honeypot

    The hardware behind the first honeypot was nothing exotic. It was an ESP32-S3 development board mounted…