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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. FIRST POST by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FIRST POST

  2. Ha HA by cerebralpc · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In my best Nelson voice

  3. You FAIL it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  4. How about +1, Troll? by ArielMT · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    About your sig: Wondering why i am doing so strange posts? I am trying to get a "+5,Flamebait" or "-1,Insightful" rating.

    How about (Score: 1, Troll)?

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    It must be Windows. It needs half a gig of RAM and a hardware-accelerated graphics card just to run Solitaire.
  5. ppl ppl, evrywhr! by Apotsy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Wher thrs musc, thrs ppl.

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    Free Hans!