Hack in the Box Meets Windows Vista

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."

Will Vista ship with firewall ENABLED?!

[Anonymous Coward]

heck, I'm afraid of my dual booting XP just sharing a data partition on my Linux drive..

Microsoft job listings

[RMB2]

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 ......

Dear Microsoft,

[Opportunist]

Thank you for the deep insight in your security. You'll get our response after your release.

Yours,
Asia.

Re:Microsoft job listings

[Moqui]

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

Re:Microsoft job listings

[RsG]

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

It sounds like a good way to get slapped. "Hi, I'm a certified penetration engineer *SMACK* ow!"

Mind you, if you're into that sort of thing, it might be cheaper than paying a dominatrix...

This just in: Asian hackers give M$ a look...

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This announcement followed shortly by a conference in which Asian hackers give Microsoft a look at the new hacked Vista. Good job everyone! Why not just hand them a DVD master of Pirates of the Carribean 2, and a stack of blanks, and say, "this DVD is copy-proof." Sure it is.

Re:The never ending story

[Anonymous Coward]

I've only met one person that liked Konqueror, and I think he was lying to annoy me.

Re:Penetration engineer?

[Anonymous Coward]

Um. Start at the bottom, and work your way up?

Re:Microsoft job listings

[Meneguzzi]

Well, I wonder what kind of background would be required to apply for such a position? In any case, if Vista fails from a security point of view, I'd advise Microsoft to go for the likes of Ron Jeremy, after all, that guy has years of experience in the penetration business. Sorry for the silly joke, but I could not avoid thinking of stupid names for very "specialized" movies stemming from M$ projects. Like "Debby does Vista" or "Developers gone wild"... Once again, sorry for my teenage rants...

Re:Dear Microsoft,

[oahazmatt]

Enclosed you will find information on 27 blatant security holes.

Love,
Asia

P.S. We found 109.

MS Business Practices

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...Douglas MacIver, a penetration engineer at Microsoft...

They seriously need to stop letting people make up their own job titles.