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 2005-08-12
Roger

If they published the list, all it would achieve is those sites would move elsewhere -- plus the honeymonkeys would no longer work, and would need to be set up again with a new list (secret this time).

The only winners from publishing the list would be the bad guys operating the malicious sites (...

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