RPi Honeypot

By timadmin in Raspberry PI 0 Comment

I’m setting up a Raspberry Pi to use at work as a host that can respond to ping requests and provide a target to test monitoring software against. It occurred to me that this might be more useful if I add something to the Pi to spice it up a bit: honeypot software. What could be more fun than having a honeypot that one could drop onto a network at a moment’s notice?

Here’s where I found my first clues on how to do such a thing:
https://isc.sans.edu/diary/A+Honeypot+for+home:+Raspberry+Pi/18463

Here I go!

SD Card Formatting

By timadmin in Administrative, Hardware, Raspberry PI 1 Comment

At long last I am sitting at a desk working on my MacBook with the Raspberry PI running next to me.  It is so cute, up and waiting with the command line interface.  What should we do today?  Well, what we do every day – take over the world!  But first, we have to prepare for the unlikely event that we might possibly fail.  If a failure were to occur it seems like a really good idea to have a <gasp> recovery plan.  Since the RPI uses a MicroSD card for it’s boot partition I think I’ll start by having a couple of those ready to go.

The first step is to get a 4 GB or larger micro SD card.  Check.

The next step is to format the card.  Cool, so how does one do that?  Why, by downloading the formatting utility from the SD Card Association, of course.  From this link.

What about a NOOBS installer and Raspbian image?  Well, download those from here.

Extract the files, copy them to the SD card and you should be good to go.