Honeypots: Tracking Hackers

Perceptions and Misconceptions of Honeypots

Historically, honeypots have had a clouded reputation, but undeservedly so. Although the concept of honeypots is more than a decade old, honeypots have not been adopted until recently. Many misconceptions may explain this delay between concept and implementation. People feel that if an attacker is lured into a honeypot, the attacker will only be infuriated by the deception and retaliate against the organization. Others feel that honeypots require too much work: building advanced jail environments, recoding binaries, or developing sophisticated kernel module. Or they fear that if the honeypot is misconfigured or not maintained properly, attackers will have access to resources they otherwise would not ...