ORLANDO — Honeypots have largely been relegated to use by academia and antivirus vendors because most enterprise IT teams figure they’re too expensive to run and could land their companies in legal ...

Although technically related to intrusion-detection systems and firewalls, honeypots have no real production value as an active sentinel of networks. That is, they aren't set up to actively protect ...

Norwich University undergraduate student Bob Pelletier is doing some interesting research work on honeypots in the independent study program with me this term in which he is building a working ...

I often recommend that my clients set up and use a honeypot, and not just because my last book was entitled Honeypots for Windows. Honeypots are any non-production computer asset set up only as a ...

Imagine being able to sit behind a hacker and observe them take control of a computer and play around with it. That’s pretty much what two security researchers did thanks to a large network of ...

The honeypot has long been an essential component of cybersecurity programs that organizations have used for decades. These deceptive tools—designed to mimic a range of digital assets and entrap ...

Suchi Rudra is a writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, BBC, and Vice, among other publications. The term “honeypot” has its origins in the world of espionage, but these days, the ...

New honeypot book delivers Virtual Honeypots: From Botnet Tracking to Intrusion Detection by Niels Provos and Thorsten Holz As a long-time honeypot and honeyclient professional (and honeypot book ...

Honeypots can be tricky to configure as well as dangerous. Imagine leaving your home unlocked in order to find out who would burglarize it. That's pretty much the scenario with a honeypot. Honeypots ...

My professional life has been full of clients devastated by trusted, internal attackers. In every case, the damage done amounted to hundreds of thousands of dollars. In one case, the victimized ...

Longtime readers of my column know what a honeypot proponent I am. I run several around the world, collecting information on malware and malicious hackers, and I think every company should have one.