The great advance in attacks against network has led to outgrowth of interest in mor aggressive forms of defense to supplement the existing security approaches. One of these techniques involves the use of the deception to collect information about attacks. A honeypot is security deception resource whose value lies in being probed, attacked or compromised. In the paper we present an overview of techniques used by honeypots to deceive the attacker and attacking process, and provide a comparison for persons who are interested in study and developing this new technology. We examine various types of honeypots, and deception techniques they use to counter attacks.