honeypot

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Recent Examples of honeypot Any event of this magnitude is a honeypot to bad actors, who know there will be plenty of users out there itching to tap or point and click at a solution for their missing fixes. Zak Doffman, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025 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 See All Example Sentences for honeypot
Recent Examples of Synonyms for honeypot
Noun
  • Now, the advertising bonanza might be coming to an end after the demise of the shipping loophole that spurred it.
    Daisuke Wakabayashi, New York Times, 3 May 2025
  • Asia-Pacific markets were mostly higher on Tuesday, while U.S. stock futures were near-flat ahead of Wall Street’s own earnings bonanza.
    Jenni Reid, CNBC, 29 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The administration’s efforts to stop this gravy train threaten the climate house of cards built up for decades.
    Peter Murphy, Boston Herald, 14 May 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Weighing a hefty 15 pounds, the cache was found by two hikers who handed the treasure over to the museum in February.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 8 May 2025
  • The image below, from a Seagate presentation shows a high-capacity enterprise HDD with an SSD cache both functioning over a PCIe bus to the DPU and a special NIC supporting remote direct memory access using NVMe-oF and AIStorage object storage with optional GPUDirect capability for the HDD data.
    Thomas Coughlin, Forbes.com, 6 May 2025
Noun
  • The star's jewelry stash is bedazzled with so much more than anklets though.
    Michelle Lee, People.com, 28 Apr. 2025
  • The Chinese appear to be disgorging themselves of their vast stash of treasuries.
    Brian Domitrovic, Forbes.com, 27 Apr. 2025

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

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