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Released: January 03, 2013
To thwart hackers, firms salting servers with fake data
Source: Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post (Free Registration)
Brown Printing Co., which prints popular magazines and catalogues, knew that it had valuable assets in its computer systems and that those assets — online editions and subscriber databases — were increasingly at risk with the proliferation of cyber-espionage.
And so, to confront one of the newest and most damaging crimes, it turned to one of the oldest tricks in human history: deception. The Waseca, Minn., company began planting fake data in Web servers to lure hackers into “rabbit holes” in the hopes of frustrating them into giving up.
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