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 ridicolous 2005-08-14
MonkeyMan

I think you are missing the point, by using honeymonkeys with differing vulnerability levels MS has just proactively located websites that are actively trying to exploit those vulnerabilities. I think this is brilliant. It will be even more brilliant if a) it helps shut down some bad sites b) helps ...

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