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fire·wall

(fīr'wawl)
1. A special building material that is placed in walls between buildings or rooms to prevent the spread of fire.
2. A software program designed to prevent unauthorized persons from accessing a computer system.
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In the study, more than 5 million attacks were attempted on the global network of honeypots in the 30-day period, demonstrating how cybercriminals are automatically scanning for weak open cloud buckets.
Honeypots are classified into three groups according to their level of interaction between attacker and honeypot: low, medium and high [9].
Detecting honeypots is mostly dependent on the design of the honeypot itself rather than following a predefined criterion out there.
"Media Honeypot serves as a new platform to connect European startups and legacy players to find innovation and foster competitiveness in the European media landscape.
The term honeypot usually refers to an entity with certain features that make it especially attractive and can lure attackers into its vicinity.
DNS log analysis and "honeypots" are also used to detect botnets, but these techniques are not always scalable.
Honeypot can be considered an artificial intelligent technique due to the fact that it mimics the biological nature of particular species.
If an attacker targets multiple services, once they compromise a false target honeypot and are deceived by it, they will change their target to the next service.
He told them: "As long as the gospel is preached in this church, there will be a congregation here - because they will come, like bees to a honeypot, to hear the gospel."
Thankfully the joint committee report on this bill has criticised it severely calling it a 'honeypot for hackers' and saying that the Home Office gave 'fanciful and misleading' evidence to justify 'sweeping powers' that go beyond what they need or should have.
Like other security firms, Symantec has kept an eye on Flame using so-called 'honeypot' computers that report what happens when they are infected with a malicious program.
The vast quantities of data collected could make it harder for security services to identify threats in time and would be a honeypot for hackers and foreign powers.
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