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Windows Vista Weblog

October 8th, 2006

Microsoft organizes party for hackers

MS needs more outside info on Vista, so they’re trying to be friends with the hacking-community… During a recent visit to Malaysia, a team from Microsoft actually threw local hackers a party, and spoke to them about Vista. I also think this marks a change in strategy to how Microsoft views hackers: From incurable villains […]

By Vincent -- 0 comments

August 4th, 2006

Vista hacked at Black Hat

While Microsoft is asking hackers to try and break Vista, the damn thing is already hacked! Joanna Rutkowska, a Polish researcher, hacked Vista while at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas. She showed that it is possible to bypass security measures in Vista and allowing any unsigned device driver to be loaded. The demo […]

By Vincent -- 4 comments

September 30th, 2005

Hackers Advise Microsoft on IE7

In a classic case of poachers turned gamekeepers, hackers (or, the “security research community”) have been helping Microsoft sort out IE7 at the Hack in the Box conference in Kuala Lumpur.
Of course, we’ve know this sort of conversation has been going on for a while : remember the Black Hat drinks party at the […]

By duncan -- 4 comments