honeypots

Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. software or system designed to attract and catch hacker attacks, malware, or spam.

Real-world Examples

The honeypot towns of the Cinque Terre are half an hour away by train.

Source: The Guardian Reading Selection

They do get honeypots sent after them, and blackmail efforts, and fake sources using false identities.

Source: PBS Interview Education Series

I'm doing internet scanning and building honeypots there.

Source: DEFCON Collection

Get your hand out of his honeypot and get over here.

Source: 2 Broke Girls Season 2

I send that money out into the real world, and when it comes back...- Clean as a virgin's honeypot, huh? - Cleaner.

Source: The Shawshank Redemption (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

So was the plum pudding, which melted in one's mouth, likewise the jellies, in which Amy reveled like a fly in a honeypot.

Source: "Little Women" original version

One lobbyist said to me this week that basically business people when they have these events with Labour politicians are like bees around the honeypot.

Source: Financial Times Podcast

The children went to him like bees to a honeypot, and establishing themselves on each knee, proceeded to captivate him by rifling his pockets, pulling his beard, and investigating his watch, with juvenile audacity.

Source: Little Women (Bilingual Edition)

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