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Microsoft's Monkey Business |
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by Jun Wei Lee
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Tuesday, 09 August 2005 11:58 PM |
Microsoft is pro-actively trying to secure its
Internet Explorer browser on Windows XP by deploying a legion of cloned
monkeys (read: automated XP clients) to crawl the ghettos of the
Internet in search of websites that will compromise the system without
user interaction.
The move quite questionable though in the sense that
they are deploying totally unpatched XP clients, which would make
distinction between vulnerabilities that have been addressed and those
that aren't. But fear not, your favourite software giant has reported
success in detecting at least 1 unpublished vulnerability that was used
(since patched).
With the new Blue Hat project on the go, Microsoft
seems to be really putting an effort to improve the security of its
operating systems which started with the release of SP2.
Source: SecurityFocus
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