Pooh couldn’t ever do enough to get himself some honey! He’d disguise himself as a little dark rain cloud, he’d get himself stuck in honey jars by trying to lick the bottom of the jar and once he ate himself so fat he had to sit stuck in the door of Rabbits home for many days until he became thin again.
When it comes to “honeypots” - hackers are similar, they can't resist. In a nutshell, honeypots are fake customers, websites, or user credentials. Companies and organizations interested in proactively studying the patterns of who is stealing what use this technique to lure in the bad guys and then track the 'honey' to see where it goes. A friend of mine did something similar with email addresses. He started creating a unique email address for himself whenever he signed up for a service. E.g. He played fantasy football, so he created daves_fantasy_football@vendor.com when he started receiving spam on this email address, he KNEW who sold his information!
Here is a great technical paper from Honeyblog written to explore many areas regarding the topic of malware and new black market forming around the internet in China.
It has a lot of detail explaining who is stealing ID's in China, who the thief is selling them to - and ultimately how the fraudsters can make money off of video game credits!
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