Microsoft's "monkeys" find first zero-day exploit

Microsoft's "monkeys" find first zero-day exploit
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2005-08-08

Microsoft 's experimental Honeymonkey project has found almost 750 Web pages that attempt to load malicious code onto visitors' computers and detected an attack using a vulnerability that had not been publicly disclosed, the software giant said in a paper released this month.

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Microsoft's "monkeys" find first zero-day exploit 2005-08-09
DCrawford (2 replies)

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Microsoft's "monkeys" find first zero-day exploit 2005-08-10
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Microsoft's "monkeys" find first zero-day exploit 2005-08-12
Anonymous

I agree. Telling they've found something, but not revealing anything isn't helpful at all.

I'm pretty much done with Microsoft, and I've moved off. At least in the open-source world, they tell you something is bad, and give you ways to avoid or fix the issue.

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It would be nice to have seen mention of Kathy Wang's honeyclient research as well 2005-08-12
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Microsoft's "monkeys" find first zero-day exploit ridicolous 2005-08-13
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