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Honeypot

 
Hacker Slang: honey pot

1. A box designed to attract crackers so that they can be observed in action. It is usually well isolated from the rest of the network, but has extensive logging (usually network layer, on a different machine). Different from an iron box in that its purpose is to attract, not merely observe. Sometimes, it is also a defensive network security tactic — you set up an easy-to-crack box so that your real servers don't get messed with. The concept was presented in Cheswick & Bellovin's book Firewalls and Internet Security.

2. A mail server that acts as an open relay when a single message is attempted to send through it, but discards or diverts for examination messages that are detected to be part of a spam run.


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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: South African shrub whose flowers when open are cup- or goblet-shaped resembling globe artichokes
  Synonyms: king protea, Protea cynaroides


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Honeypot or honeytrap may refer to:


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Dansk (Danish)
n. - honningkrukke

Français (French)
n. - pot à miel, (US) vagin (vulg)

Deutsch (German)
n. - Honigtopf

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - βάζο μελιού, (καθομ.) μανούλι

Italiano (Italian)
attrazione, vasetto di miele

Português (Portuguese)
n. - formiga (f) operária (Entom.)

Русский (Russian)
горшок для меда, нечто привлекательное

Español (Spanish)
n. - mielera

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - honungsburk

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
装蜂蜜的容器, 两手在腿臀下紧紧钩住的姿势

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 裝蜂蜜的容器, 兩手在腿臀下緊緊鉤住的姿勢

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 꿀단지, 매력 있는 것

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 蜜の壷, 蜜アリ

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮דבר מאוד מושך או מגרה, סיר הדבש‬


 
 

 

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