Microsoft unwraps HoneyMonkey detection project

02:54 - Saturday 6 August 2005 by Wolfgang Gruener
Source: Tom's Hardware – Keywords: microsoft, unwraps, honeymonkey, detection, project Category : Miscellaneous

Microsoft has officially lifted the wraps off its Strider HoneyMonkey research project, designed to trawl the dark side of the Internet looking for Web sites hosting malicious code.

Microsoft Corp. released a technical report, available as a PDF, to introduce the concept of an Automated Web Patrol that uses multiple Windows XP machines, some unpatched and some fully updated, to streamline the process of finding zero-day Web-based exploits.

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