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.

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

Instead of telling that they have found these

malicious websites, Microsoft should inform the

public so the user can block their IP's or add

the URL to the restricted zone. Typical Microsoft

warning people for dangers but not doing anything

useful with it. More reason to use Firefox or any

oth...

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