What is a term called honeypot

[CAILYN]

I was going through a article which states attacks and other threats on the internet. It also shows some measure taken to stop them out. I need some information on the same. First what is a honeypot and what does it do. In the same way what is sandbox and for what purpose social engineering is implemented.

[Milton.J]

Securing networks and computer programs demand more and more investments (resources human material and financial): firewalls, anti virus etc. A honeypot is a term where he ground is open for attack. And then information is collected on the basis of attack for calculating the cause of the same.

[Spyrus]

The honeypot has numerous goals like deflect the attention of attackers to targets that appear more interesting and easier. Or enable the analysis methods of attacks by examination. The honey pot is a trap pirates is the imitation of a system / program / wifi access point. It replicates a potentially interesting for an attack but has no contact with the real system which is well on. It merely simulate activity / system services / activities of users of a system in operation.

[Snake08]

A sandbox is a controlled environment in which typically turns (sometimes multiple) application. This environment is partitioned from the rest of the system. A user in a sandbox has access to only some list of procedures. Thus if one malevolent person arrives to launch a piece of code via an application in a tank, the effects will be limited because the user application owner (usually root) can make any changes to the system.

[Zachary]

This is to attack a computer system by the link most likely to commit a miscalculation: the human. When the attacker is knowledgeable about the structure of the body it is, it's easy to pretend to be one or two players of executives / managers and any pretext of emergency / constraints of society very serious, requesting sensitive information on computer system. The caller may be deceived by the hacker's knowledge of the organization of society and release of strategic information.

[Big Fish]

Here, there is no technical procession, but only organizational. It is essential to control who has access to what information and under what conditions and that they can be transmitted. It is also important to ensure that each caller to whom he is dealing. In proposing such a person to recall a number of the company or to send the requested information on an email.