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.

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

So if they publish this list of questionable sites, what do you think the folks with the sites will do? start up new sites with the same garbage or remove the malicious code? If you are watching a criminal with the intent of catching them in the act, do you warn the public first, to beware of them ...

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