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.

It would be nice to have seen mention of Kathy Wang's honeyclient research as well 2005-08-12
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While it's great to see this technique being applied to useful purpose by Microsoft, it should also be noted that Kathy Wang was talking on honeyclients (which as a term makes more sense) for a while already. She even presented some publically available tools at REcon back in June.

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