What is honeypot and honeynets ?

 Honeypot : A honeypot is a sweet looking server , that intentionally left open or sloppy locked so that attacker can target this easily instead of main server.

 Honeynets : Honeynets is collection of honeypots usually created on same machine using virtual technic , it mimic the activity of actual server sometimes it contains dummy data transection details.

Objective of honeypot and Honeynets 

1. To Know the mythology used by hackers 

2. Distract the attacker from actual server 

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