honeypot

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Recent Examples of honeypot Partly because iMessage is a honeypot for spam, business notifications and OTPs and doesn’t have the natural cleanliness of other platforms—most of our WhatsApps (or similar) come from friends and family. Zak Doffman, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024 These shadow networks outside the gaze of corporate IT overlords have become a honeypot for sensitive data and proprietary information. Zak Doffman, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025 Traditional honeypots are invisible links that human visitors can't see but bots parsing HTML code might follow. Ars Technica, 21 Mar. 2025 Windows remains a honeypot for cyber attacks and security vulnerabilities, for half or more of its user base to be off support is simply unthinkable. Zak Doffman, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for honeypot
Recent Examples of Synonyms for honeypot
Noun
  • At the same time, the networks forgo a bonanza in advertising revenue, limiting commercial breaks to just four minutes per hour—or roughly a quarter of the standard broadcast load.
    Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 11 Apr. 2025
  • The real bonanza period only lasted from 1878 to 1882.
    Richard Grant, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • This just-okay kids’ film — the sort trying to capitalize on the Harry Potter gravy train way after the fact — is set in the 1950s as a boy, Lewis (Owen Vaccaro), is sent to live with his eccentric uncle Jonathan (Jack Black) after his parents’ tragic death.
    Tim Grierson, Vulture, 15 Mar. 2025
  • The city of Miami is one of the worst examples of how the gravy train works.
    Linda Robertson, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • In 1924, workers digging on another property near Boca Raton that was owned by a different developer reportedly unearthed a cache of 17th- and 18th-century Spanish and English coins.
    Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Families of victims of the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel sued a Palestinian American businessman, accusing him of developing properties to conceal Hamas tunnels and weapon caches.
    Natasha Frost, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • At one point, at a therapist's urging, Hale's parents took a stash of guns.
    Adam Tamburin, Axios, 2 Apr. 2025
  • The men transported migrants by sharing routes, guides, stash houses, trucks and trailers to consolidate costs and minimize risks, according to court records.
    Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2025

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“Honeypot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/honeypot. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.

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