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honeypot sitting on a brown paper on a table. Spoon in honey. Honey jar.

What is a Honeypot?

Author(s):

Caleb Townsend, Staff Writer, United States Cybersecurity Magazine

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In 1986, systems administrator Clifford Stoll noticed nine seconds of unpaid computer time at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Upon being asked to resolve this, Stoll eventually came to the conclusion that a hacker had illegally gained … Read more