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Microsoft's Blue Hat Conference
SecureThroughObscure writes "ZDNet Zero-Day security blogger Nate McFeters got an exclusive look at the Microsoft Blue Hat conference. This is an invite-only conference that few media get to attend, but apparently McFeters was brought in with co-worker Rob Carter to talk about some vulnerabilities they had discovered with a few product security teams in attendence, and was also asked to do a guest blog posting about the conference at the Microsoft Blue Hat blog. McFeters also included several pictures of the conference and after conference events."
hmm... nope, can't think of a joke.
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Is this specifically a dig at Red Hat?
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You're driving your car, but they're riding their bikes there.
This is worst than the third time Janeway took the borg head on by becomming a drone... probable but highly unlikely. One would think that a company that boasts itself in the media as much as Microsoft does for being an open book enterprise, that one of their Vulcans would give them a more logical approach. Think about it...
WWPD - What Would Picard Do?
An invite-only confrence where they test how well their product does? You'll get skewered data that we all know their going to use to bash Linux and support Windows.
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Huh ? black hat grey hat white hat, now blue hat ? what about fartie heart hats ? is i.t. world discriminating against people with Hats from other walks of life ? shame on you all ...
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The Blue Hats match the blue screens you see.
Maybe I'm a Star Trek geek, but that was hilarious!
Look, I was happy with black hat / white hat. Grey hat was pushing it... what is next, the zebra pimp hat conference?
That's for marketing people.
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accessories for the bsod...
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Microsoft's Blue Screen of Death Hat Conference
There, fixed it for you...
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Hmm .. now I wonder why they call it Blue Hat .. oh right the original one is called Black Hat and they had to make this one something different from black. I guess Blue is for the BSOD.
Hold a conference for only its security people? I mean, it sure looks like employees outnumber the actual guests there, and I suspect the guests are Microsoft contractors or employees of Microsoft Gold Partners that were forced to go by their boss. People actually WANT to attend Black Hat.
I loved the photo of the mac laptop sitting on the Microsoft podium.
The summary says "McFeters was brought in with co-worker Rob Carter to talk about some vulnerabilities they had discovered with a few product security teams in attendence" - that makes it sounds like Nate and Rob found vulnerabilities in Microsoft products. If you actually read the guest blog entry, it says:
"Microsoft had Rob Carter [...] and I come in to discuss some recent vulnerabilities that we've discovered with a few third-party vendors with whom Microsoft has tight relationships"
Probably this is referring to Adobe - Nate and Rob have previously reported vulns to them and had them patched.
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Troll!? What? It's funny.
Out of all the stretches for a joke I've seen in this thread this comment was the best so far. There's a well-known association between Microsoft and the dreaded BSOD, especially in Slashdot context. Seems like a fair pun to me.
I think you're confusing 'uncomplimentary' with 'Troll'.
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if a conference of blue-hats suddenly cried out:
"I put on my robe and wizard hat..."
Ah, arrogance and stupidity, all in the same package. How efficient of you. -- Londo Mollari
if they wear blue badges why dont they call it the blue badge meeting instead of taking the red away from (redhat) hat and named it bluehat. i saw a couple of mac book in one of those pictures
or is that photo gallery some sort of hoax? Has anyone seen a duller set of pictures? Even the writer of the titles for them got bored & cleared off.
BTW, what's the record time for posting as anonymous coward? I'm only a couple of years in & wonder if I hold out for 5 I might feel I deserve a prize. Cakes all round in 2011.
For some reason I was hoping this was about some Smurf fetish gathering.
Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers.
My first impression of the headline was: "Why the hell would Microsoft do a Fedora conference?"
15 people in a carpeted room doesn't really constitute a conference.
;-) with the obligitory projector, and booze.
Looks cheap and cheezy
What can that small number of people actually accomplish for
and OS that has hundreds of millions of installations around
the world.
Appears to be just an excuse for a hand selected crew to get
drunk, and then post blurry photos of their quieter moments.
Was there any "chair throwing" going on?
Why is it that every time I look through pictures for a Microsoft event, I can find a picture of someone toting a Mac?
"Alex .. discussed the need for more transparency from vendors on the standards that the browsers depend upon"
.. we all know the reason for that and keeping the conference closed is hardly the way to go about being transparency.
.. discovered that phishing was just one means of supply to fill the demand for identities in the identity theft ecosystem""
.. cross-site scripting attack frameworks"
.. :)
..
Well, doh
"Billy and Nitesh
Make an email transport system that don't suffer from phishing and identity theft attacks."
"Manuel Caballero discussed
Make a Web server/browser that don't suffer from 'cross-site scripting attacks'
Just love the white on black text and 'courier wew' type font
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Wonder if they getting an invetation next year.
http://content.zdnet.com/2347-12691_22-200400-200403.html?seq=3
unbelievable crap from the assholes in redmond
I get the impression based upon all the stories posted by SecureThroughObscure that it is either Nate or someone pimping Nate strongly...