Australian Honeynet Project

Founded in Jan 2008, the Australian Honeynet Project supports the mission of understanding the tools, tactics and motives of those who represent a cyber threat. We share our findings with other security researchers and Law Enforcement authorities. We hope our activities will benefit Australian citizens who make legitimate use of the Internet. Our broad aim is to help make the Internet a safer place for end users.

Essentially the Australian Honeynet Project is a community based 'For Public Good' project, we currently have three core members who guide and maintain the project.

We also have 'contributors' who provide advice, intelligence, data and resources to the project. Contributors can participate for as long as they desire. We try to match contributor's skills and resources up with pieces of work we need done at the time.
Work on the project is done in our spare time and as private citizens. We do not receive wages or other payments for our work. We are not affiliated, guided by or indebted to any commercial or government entity - be they sponsors, contributors or employers. This is our most important ethos, because it allows us to maintain our independence to develop the project without outside pressures, and keep the public good as our primary concern.

Read more about us here.