Business Smart Security

And so, to confront one of the newest and most damaging crimes, it turned to one of the oldest tricks in human history: deception.
Timeline: Explore some of the technological advances that led to cyberspace and some examples of notable hacks.
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. The bait was varied — including bogus user log-ins and passwords and phony system configuration files. Anyone who took it was being watched by Brown, their computer locations tagged and their tactics recorded.

To thwart hackers, firms salting their servers with fake data