Hack in the Box Meets Windows Vista

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday July 11, 2006 @11:23PM from the book-your-flights-now dept.

Strange_Brew writes "It appears Microsoft is really going all out to get Windows Vista secured before its release date in 2007. There's an article on PC World which talks about Microsoft's plan to give Asia's largest hackers conference an inside look at the new security features in Windows Vista this coming September." From the article: "The Hack In The Box conference will host two speakers from Microsoft. The first, Dave Tamasi, a lead security program manager at Microsoft, will give a presentation on security engineering in Vista. The talk will include a discussion about features suggested by hackers and other security conscious members of the computing community, in addition to security improvements made on Vista. The second speaker, Douglas MacIver, a penetration engineer at Microsoft, will review Vista's BitLocker Drive Encryption and the company's analysis of threats and attempts to penetrate the security feature."

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Vista still "protective" of keeping it's malware by Anonymous Coward · 2006-07-11 23:41 · Score: 5, Interesting

One of the common myths is that Windows is just a victum of it's own success. The logic behind the myth is that if Mac or Linux where just as popular then the same exact problems would occur.

There is one major difference... Mac and Linux allow privileged processes to remove (and even replace) a file that still is in use. Vista continues to "protect" files that are in use from deletion.