Microsoft to show off Vista at Hack In The Box Security Conference
Microsoft plans to give a hacker conference in Asia an inside look at new security features on Windows Vista later this year, the organizer of the event said Tuesday.
The company's commitment to show off Vista to the hacker and security community is part of a long-term trend aimed at gaining greater feedback from users prior to product debuts. More and more software and hardware vendors are trying to weed out vulnerabilities before products go to market, and they often turn to the underground and above ground security community for advice.
"Companies know that fixing vulnerabilities in already released products is always going to be much more expensive than finding and squashing them during the development stage," said Dhillon Andrew Kannabhiran, organizer of the 6th annual Hack In The Box deep knowledge security conference (HITBSecConf2006) set for Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in September. L33tdawg: For further details on HITBSecConf2006, please take a look at the official conference website. Do note that seats for the hands on technical training sessions and the conference are going pretty quick, so if you haven't registered yet, you are strongly encouraged to do so to avoid disappointment. You can register for the event here.
HITBSecConf2006 - Malaysia is a deep-knowledge network security conference which is supported and endorsed by the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) and Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit (MAMPU).
