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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."
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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It's a take off of the Black Hat security conference, which is a vendor neutral. The terms Black hat and White hat are commonly used to describe the intent of security researchers who are either malicious (Black hat) or ethical (White hat).
What users are you talking about? This is conference internal to Microsoft, with speakers invited (mostly) from Black Hat conference. It is limited to full-time employees ("blue badges") hence - BlueHat.
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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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