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Honey Pot or Honeypot

Honey pots, also known as honeypots, are software programs that simulate one or more network services that you designate on your computer's ports. Honey pot can also be an Internet-attached server that acts as a decoy, luring in potential hackers in order to study their activities and monitor how they are able to break into a system. Honeypots are designed to mimic systems that an intruder would like to break into but limit the intruder from having access to an entire network. A honey pot can be used to log access attempts to those ports including the attacker's keystrokes.

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Honey Pot or Honeypot