Game of Hacks - The Mother of All Honeypots

Explore the intricacies of a unique honeypot experiment in this conference talk from AppSecUSA 2015. Dive into the creation and analysis of "Game of Hacks," a viral web application designed to train developers on secure coding while secretly serving as a honeypot. Learn how attackers adapted to various security measures over a 6-month period, and gain valuable insights applicable to any web application. Discover the real-time adjustments hackers made to overcome strengthening measures, including business logic attacks, DDoS attempts through site scraping, and comment spam exploitation. Examine the methodologies used to fortify the honeypot and extract practical lessons for enhancing enterprise web application security.