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Source: MSNBC - Posted by Dave Wreski
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The world of computer hackers is a constant cat-and-mouse game between "white hats" and "black hats." Some white hats use "honeypots" to learn about their enemy. Honeypots look like normal Web servers to a black hat, but they are really traps . . .
The world of computer hackers is a constant cat-and-mouse game between "white hats" and "black hats." Some white hats use "honeypots" to learn about their enemy. Honeypots look like normal Web servers to a black hat, but they are really traps with special software that allow white hats to track every step a computer vandal takes. Click above to see, step by step, a full-blown attack by a black hat aimed at a honeypot, through both the eyes of the hacker and the white hat stopping her.
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