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Definition: Honeypot |
HoneypotNoun1. South African shrub whose flowers when open are cup- or goblet-shaped resembling globe artichokes. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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A honeypot is a computer system or software intended to attract hostile activity such as cracking or spamming, by masquerading as a vulnerable system. It is a computer security tool used to gather information about attackers and their techniques. Honeypots can distract adversaries from more valuable machines on a network, they can provide early warning about new attack and exploitation trends and they allow in-depth examination of adversaries during and after exploitation of a honeypot.The term "honeypot" is believed to come from the Winnie the Pooh stories, in which Pooh finds himself stuck inside a pot of honey which he intended to eat.
Security Honeypots
Programs such as Fred Cohen's Deception Toolkit masquerade as vulnerable network services. When an attacker connects to a service and attempts to break in, they simulate weakness but do not allow the attacker to actually gain control of the system. By logging the attacker's activity, such a system gathers information about the attacks being used, as well as the attacker's own IP address and other information.
The Honeynet Project is a research project deploying networks of honeypot systems ("honeynets") to gather extensive information about "the tools, tactics, and motives" of computer criminals.
Spam Honeypots
Spammers are known to abuse vulnerable resources such as open mail relays and open proxies. Some system administrators have created honeypot programs which masquerade as these abusable resources in order to discover the activities of spammers.
Open relay honeypots include Jackpot, written in Java, and smtpot.py, written in Python.
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A honeypot is another name for the plant king protea.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Honeypot."
Synonym: HoneypotSynonym: king protea (n). (additional references) |
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| "Honeypot" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 76.47% of the time. "Honeypot" is used about 34 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 76.47% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Noun (proper) | 23.53% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 34 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "honeypot": like bees round a honeypot. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
honeypot | 56 |
ant honeypot | 4 |
honeypot production | 3 |
honeypot setup | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "honeypot"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | overrendt kulturcenter (overcrowded cultural honeypot). (various references) | |
Dutch | te intensief bezocht cultureel aandachtspunt (overcrowded cultural honeypot), cultuurhistorisch toeristisch concentratiepunt onder te zware recreatiedruk (overcrowded cultural honeypot). (various references) | |
French | pôle culturel surpeuplé (overcrowded cultural honeypot). (various references) | |
German | wie die motten ums licht (like bees round a honeypot), überlastete touristische Hauptsehenswürdigkeit (overcrowded cultural honeypot). (various references) | |
Greek | πυκνοκατοικημένος πόλος πολιτιστικού ενδιαφέροντος (overcrowded cultural honeypot). (various references) | |
Italian | polo culturale sovrappopolato (overcrowded cultural honeypot). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oneypothay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pólo cultural sobrepovoado (overcrowded cultural honeypot). (various references) | |
Spanish | mielero, cazuela para miel. (various references) | |
Turkish | cazip şey (allure, allurement), bal küpü, çekici kimse (loadstone, lodestone, stunner). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | спокуса (allure, allurement, bait, enticement, lure, seducement, seduction, temptation), глечик для меду. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-n-o-o-p-t-y" | |
-1 letter: oophyte, typhoon. | |
-2 letters: phoney, phooey, photon, phyton, python, typhon. | |
-3 letters: honey, hooey, hooty, netop, peony, phone, phono, phony, photo, tepoy, toney, tophe, toyon. | |
-4 letters: hent, hone, hoop, hoot, hope, hype, hypo, hyte, nope, note, onto, open, pent, peon, phon, phot, poet, pone, pony, pooh, poon, then, they, tone, tony, toon, tope, toph, toyo, tyne. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-n-o-o-p-t-y" | |
+3 letters: entomophily, heterophony, hypotension, stereophony. | |
+4 letters: autohypnoses, hymenopteron, hypotensions, monophyletic, phytohormone. | |
+5 letters: anthropometry, butyrophenone, chronotherapy, hymenopterons, hymenopterous, hypothecation, openmouthedly, photosynthate, phytohormones, phytopathogen. | |
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