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[ PRIVACY Forum ] To thwart hackers,
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To thwart hackers, firms salting their servers with fake data
http://j.mp/UiwbuV (Washington Post)
"The Waseca, Minn., company began planting fake data in Web servers to
lure hackers into "rabbit holes" in the hopes of frustrating them into
giving up. The bait was varied - including bogus user log-ins and
passwords and phony system configuration files. Anyone who took it was
being watched by Brown, their computer locations tagged and their
tactics recorded."
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I remember first writing and deploying such a "honey pot" at UCLA in
early ARPANET days. Much fun watching the result.
--Lauren--
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