A coworker of mine recently suggested that I should be listening to an excellent podcast called “This Week in Tech” or TWiT for short. It is hosted by the legendary Leo Laporte and is a weekly podcast about all things technology. The regulars include such big names as John C. Dvorak and Steve Gibson, as well as a host of others from the former TechTV. I’ve listened to about five of the twenty episodes so far and found them all enjoyable.

Related to TWiT, is another useful podcast called Security Now!, which is also hosted by Leo. Security Now! focuses on security related topics and includes security guru Steve Gibson as the expert that Leo talks with. It was episode #2 of that podcast that inspired the title of this post. Apparently I have been living in a cave and hadn’t heard about Microsoft’s newest research project. It involves Windows machines crawling the web looking for websites that try to exploit holes in their Internet Explorer browser. Strangely enough, the researchers involved in this project refer to their Windows clients that are doing the browsing as “honey monkeys”, which pays homage to the term honeypot — another tool used in security research. Definitely take a listen to the podcast. It gives a fascinating look at this new research and is worth a listen.

–Pete