Re: 'Honey monkeys' deployed to catch crooked code

[Tom Ferris <tommy () security-protocols com>]

On Thu, 26 May 2005, Sarb wrote:

> Has anyone seen the following article, "'Honey monkeys' deployed to catch
> crooked code" in New Scientist about a Microsoft technology which seeks
>
> "... out code designed to attack a computer and will sound an alarm if any
> code is executed in contravention of a machine's security settings, or if
> key system-parameters are unexpectedly altered. They use a software
> forensics package called Strider, previously created by Microsoft
> researchers to detect such changes." ?
>
> http://www.newscientist.com/channel/info-tech/dn7400
>
> What do people think? How does it really work?
> Where does this "technology" take us, and what are the possible uses and
> abuses of it?
> Will attacking this technology be the future of successful hacking?

Maybe this link will answer your questions about M$ monkeys:

http://research.microsoft.com/csm/strider/

> Regards
> Sarb Sembhi

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