Microsoft to hold 2nd Blue Hat seminar in October
MICROSOFT is reaching out to hackers in another bid to beef up its software security.
The company is organising a two-day security seminar called Blue Hat at its corporate headquarters.
The name mingles the colour of Microsoft's logo with a tribute to Black Hat hacker-fests, which have been around for several years.
The Blue Hat conference, to be held in October, will be the second time Microsoft has invited about 10 security researchers, as it prefers to call them, to its Seattle campus. The first Blue Hat was so successful that similar events will be held every six months or so, Microsoft security response team manager Stephen Toulouse says.
On the first day of the conference, researchers will meet Microsoft senior managers in charge of various software products to discuss how security and the choices made by executives affect customers.
