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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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for honeypot
Noun
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The ticket revenue increase and sponsorship bonanza from the Ohtani signing ahead of last season has all aspects of their business firing.—
Kurt Badenhausen,
Sportico.com,
30 May 2025
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This change in ownership allowed industry to license these technologies from the universities and to commercialize the research, creating dramatic improvements in all areas of the American society and an economic bonanza for the U.S. economy.—
Barbara Bry,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 May 2025
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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
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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
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Residual Data In Browser Caches And Temporary Storage Data persistence in browser caches and temporary storage is often overlooked when using tools like Google Drive.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
4 June 2025
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The joint patrols have also uncovered bunkers, and more than two hundred and twenty-five weapons caches belonging to Hezbollah and other armed groups.—
Rania Abouzeid,
New Yorker,
2 June 2025
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Murphy eventually invited his Senate colleagues to help themselves to his stash, leading to them offering to help restock the desk with their own candy.—
Asher Notheis,
The Washington Examiner,
2 June 2025
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The grainy footage shows an approximately 25-pound bobcat gingerly walking across a log to return to its python stash.—
Bill Kearney,
Sun Sentinel,
19 May 2025
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“Honeypot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/honeypot. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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