Cybersecurity experts design special traps called honeypots to trick hackers into exposing enough about themselves to enable the good guys to identify and possibly prosecute the bad guys. The first ...

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Honeypots are designed to trick hackers into exposing themselves. The first known use of such a trap occurred in the mid-1980s, when a $0.75 discrepency exposed an international cadre of spies ...