Honey Monkey!

Do you know who Steve Gibson is? He is the author of Shields up! He is also the author, or at least co-author of “Security Now” a new podcast that showcases security content.

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I was surfing around the net and found an interesting web site about Microsoft’s Honey Monkey research program.

ftp://ftp.research.microsoft.com/pub/tr/TR-2005-72.pdf

The Honey Monkey Research program is Microsoft’s way at taking a proactive approach to fighting spyware. Basically, the project involves many computers setup to mimic basic users surfing the web. The computers log and record any URL’s that attempt to infect a pc with any malware/spyware etc.


Ironically, Steve Gibson’s podcast was about this very topic. Give it a listen.