honeypot

• Virtual Honeypots opens in the preface with a quick time line of an actual attack on a honeypot, in which a remote user breaks into a virtual machine, downloads several scanning and password guessing tools and then begins to scan other networks, also downloading a movie in the process. —  Comments for ArsGeek
• From there the book is full of step by step, practical information for setting up just about any type of honeypot or honeynet (a network of, in this case, virtual honeypots emulating different server or client installs). —  Comments for ArsGeek
• Shmoo offers Airsnarf, a proof of concept that a fake gateway page could act as a honeypot for legitimate hotspot users —  Wi-Fi Networking News
• Kate appears to be in some sort of yoga pose, and luckily her honeypot is covered so Nikki Blonsky isn't tempted to kick it. —  Socialite Life
• The belated updates were spotted by researchers for Trend Micro following the arrival of a new file in one of the directories in so-called "honeypot" machines deliberately seeded with Conficker C. Analysis showed that the file had arrived via the peer-to-peer file transfer system that infected machines use to communicate. —  BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition

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