Honeypots have become a widely used security tool to monitor the methods and habits of

What Are Honeypots by Doug Chick Honeypots have become a widely used security tool to monitor the methods and habits of Hackers. Honeypots are not that widely known, even among computer people but they have been around for more then 10 years. Honeypots are decoy systems that emulate a corporate network environment. This allows security administrators the ability to watch blackhat hackers work and learn from their actions. Hackers could be fooled into thinking they've accessed a corporate network, when actually they're just banging around in a honeypot. Unlike firewalls or intrusion detection systems, Honeypots do not solve a specific problem. The value of honeypots is in its ability to track movement within the site. 

Honeypots have been particularly useful in setting traps on wireless networks for hackers searching for unsecured Wi-Fi access points. A government contractor, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) launched what might be the first organized wireless honeypot, designed to tempt unwary bandwidth borrowers. SAIC gathered useful data on their techniques and tools of choice. Even my website as a honeypot on it. I use it to warn all the hacker want- to-bes cruising my site for tools and tips that they are every