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Hackers, Meet Microsoft

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the come-together dept.

Mz6 writes "The random chatter of several hundred Microsoft engineers filled the cavernous executive briefing center recently at the company's sprawling campus outside Seattle. Within minutes after their meeting was convened, however, the hall became hushed. Hackers had successfully lured a Windows laptop onto a malicious wireless network. 'It was just silent,' said Stephen Toulouse, a program manager in Microsoft's security unit. 'You couldn't hear anybody breathe.' The demo was part of an extraordinary two days in which outsiders were invited into the heart of the Windows empire for the express purpose of exploiting flaws in Microsoft computing systems. The event, which Microsoft has not publicized, was dubbed 'Blue Hat' -- a reference to the widely known 'Black Hat' security conference, tweaked to reflect Microsoft's corporate color."

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  1. So, uh, during that hushed silence by Neil+Blender · · Score: 5, Funny

    What were they thinking? "Oh, shit our OS isn't secure?"

    1. Re:So, uh, during that hushed silence by halltk1983 · · Score: 5, Funny

      I think it was more along the lines of "I hope the boss doesn't get this or he'll find my pr0n stash on the corporate laptop"

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    2. Re:So, uh, during that hushed silence by WillAffleckUW · · Score: 5, Funny

      What were they thinking? "Oh, shit our OS isn't secure?"

      More likely:

      "How can we spin this from bad to good?"

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      -- Tigger warning: This post may contain tiggers! --
    3. Re:So, uh, during that hushed silence by Infinityis · · Score: 5, Funny

      Probably something along the lines of "At least our TCO is lower..."

  2. Corporate Color by DavidLeblond · · Score: 5, Funny

    The event, which Microsoft has not publicized, was dubbed 'Blue Hat' -- a reference to the widely known 'Black Hat' security conference, tweaked to reflect Microsoft's corporate color.

    Must... not... make... obvious... BSOD comment.... aughhh!

  3. Re:Blue? by nxtr · · Score: 5, Funny

    Come to think of it.... BLUE screen!

  4. Puzzled: why get angry? by shm · · Score: 5, Funny

    From TFA, "... some of the engineers were turning red, becoming obviously angry at the demo hacking incident ..."

    I would think they would be looking at their shoes.

  5. I was sure it was green by djKing · · Score: 5, Funny

    M$'s corporate color is blue? Could have sworn it was green.

    - Peace

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  6. Re:Can We Get Firefox Developers To Do This, Too? by Mingco · · Score: 5, Funny
    They are aiming to be the top of the heap in security, and they've got drive, ambition and aggression.
    Ironically, once they reach the top of the heap in security, they'll discover that it has been overwritten by overflowing buffers.