Microsoft Invites Hackers to Test Vista

[WildCowboy]

Linkety.

Cushman said the presentations have already paid off. One talk, delivered in March by a security expert named Johnny Long, detailed a new way to identify security holes using Google. Shortly after the talk, a Microsoft manager applied the technique and discovered a customer was at risk because it hadn't properly set up a computer that was running SQL, a database program that competes with business programs sold by Oracle Corp.

Let me guess...this revolutionary new way to identify security holes using Google:

Type "microsoft security holes" into Google.

 

[dsnort]

Well, at least they are trying to make their product more secure. If they had done this with XP I probably wouldn't have switched to Mac! (So, I guess I'm glad they didn't?)😕