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
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...

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