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Hack in the Box Meets Windows Vista

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. Microsoft job listings by RMB2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I myself think it's interesting that there are actually "penetration engineers" at Microsoft.

    Makes sense, after all. I've always kinda felt like MS was giving it to us all up the ......

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    1. Re:Microsoft job listings by Moqui · · Score: 5, Funny

      If not a job, at least the business card to hand out at bars. How's that for a great start to a conversation?

  2. The never ending story by rangeva · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I remember the days before the release of XP SP2 - it was announced to be a security update that will make Win XP the most secured OS out there. Since then who can count the number of patches, updates and vulnerabilities. I wonder if it will be different with Vista...

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    1. Re:The never ending story by James_Duncan8181 · · Score: 5, Informative

      The browser and the file manager are only visually the same in that they inhabit the same window. They are different kparts. Do you understand what this means? They are seperate components, with potentially different rights. Unless you think that the fact that you can use Gecko in Konqueror with the kmozilla kpart means that the Mozilla Foundation also make a file browser.

      (Disclaimer: I use GNOME. I am also not a big fan of Konq. If you're someone who talks about technical issues but clearly doesn't bother to have an informed opionon, please go and drown yourself.)

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  3. Vista still "protective" of keeping it's malware by Anonymous Coward · · 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.

  4. Re:No good by necro81 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think you are under the false assumption that all the mainstream OS's out there (Windows, OS X, and *nix) are all equally flawed with regards to security, and it's just that whoever happens to be on top has all their flaws exposed to the world. Such a position assumes that, just by creating a polished and fully-featured OS, it is inherently unstable or insecure.

    I for one am sick of this argument, because it simply isn't true. It IS possible for the primary OS publisher out there - be it Microsoft or someone else - to release a secure OS for the masses. While being top dog does expose you to the most flak, it doesn't a priori prevent you from doing a good job in the first place.