Hackers to hear about a more secure IE
MICROSOFT will tout the new safety features of Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 during a keynote presentation at the upcoming Hack in the Box Security Conference (HITBSecConf2005) to be held in Kuala Lumpur at the end of this month.
The keynote presentation, titled Internet Explorer Security: Past, Present & Future will be delivered by Tony Chor, group program manager for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer team. He will outline threats to secure browsing and discuss Microsoft’s response with Internet Explorer (IE) for Windows XP SP2 (Service Pack 2).
Although the development of IE 7 is openly discussed in the IE team’s blog on MSDN.com, this will be the first time the implementation of IE 7’s new safety features, such as “phishing filter” and “protected mode,” will be demonstrated to the public.
Chor, a 15 year veteran of Microsoft, is responsible for leading the IE team as well as driving the design, development, and release of new versions of IE, including IE 6 in XP SP2 and IE 7 for XP and Windows Vista (formerly codenamed “Longhorn”). L33tdawg: Further details relating to Tony Chor's keynote presentation is available here.
