Excellent points and I warn my students about such things all semester. On the other hand, I don't think there's a better way to learn to protect yourself than knowing exactly how attackers go about hurting you.

Actually I was planning on doing precisely as you suggest: off-line, well-insulated, using throw-away VM's as targets, etc. I'm just looking for some example code to use as a headstart vs. beginning completely from scratch.

Cheers,

//ted

Folks,

I'm teaching an Introduction to Computer Security class and would love
to find what others have done in creating lab exercises for building and
managing a simple botnet in order to make it more "real" for my
students. Any pointers to references would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

//ted
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 T E D   M A R K O W I T Z
 Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science (ECECS)
 252 Buckman Hall
 Tagliatela School of Engineering
 University of New Haven
 West Haven, CT 06516

 WWW: http://www.unh-ececs.net
 e-mail: tmarkowitz@newhaven.edu
 office/fax: 1-203-655-2400
 mobile: 1-203-984-6565
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Folks,

I'm teaching an Introduction to Computer Security class and would love
to find what others have done in creating lab exercises for building and
managing a simple botnet in order to make it more "real" for my
students. Any pointers to references would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

//ted

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 T E D   M A R K O W I T Z
 Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science (ECECS)
 252 Buckman Hall
 Tagliatela School of Engineering
 University of New Haven
 West Haven, CT 06516

 WWW: http://www.unh-ececs.net
 e-mail: tmarkowitz@newhaven.edu
 office/fax: 1-203-655-2400
 mobile: 1-203-984-6565
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