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Title	Honeypot: A decoy to lure hackers
Type	Feature
Source	CRN 11/7/03
Summary	Although honeypots have no technical value in terms of stopping network intrusions, the data that is collected from traffic to the honeypot can be very valuable to security and network administration. The honeypot lures potential hackers into thinking that an attractive vulnerability exists; the more the honeypot is attacked, the more actionable information is gathered about the attacks. continue

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