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)

Re: Microsoft's "monkeys" find first zero-day exploit 2005-08-12
Roger

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Don

Microsoft's "monkeys" find first zero-day exploit 2005-08-10
Spetz (5 replies)

Re: Microsoft's "monkeys" find first zero-day exploit 2005-08-10
Monkeygirl

Re: Microsoft's "monkeys" find first zero-day exploit 2005-08-11
Paul Nofs

Re: Microsoft's "monkeys" find first zero-day exploit 2005-08-11
Pixl

Re: Microsoft's "monkeys" find first zero-day exploit 2005-08-12
Kevin

Telling users what the sites are is the worst thing they can do. If users block those sites, then the information will just appear somewhere else. The nature of the internet makes anything like that very hard to contain. But by keeping it secret, they can monitor it regularly.

The point of this project isn't to find 'new' sites, it's to monitor the popular ones to eavesdrop on what they're doing.

Blocking IPs is the equiv to blocking a spam message by ip; useless -- you'll just get more.

I fail to see a big correlation to firefox. Firefox has its own vulnerabilities, what is the Mozilla org doing to detect them?

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

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

It would be nice to have seen mention of Kathy Wang's honeyclient research as well 2005-08-12
grey

Microsoft's "monkeys" find first zero-day exploit ridicolous 2005-08-13
MSIE IV (1 replies)

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MonkeyMan (2 replies)

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Anonymous

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Anonymous (2 replies)

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Anonymous

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