Tag: BLACKHAT

Marc Maiffret, despite having a name that sounds uncomfortably French in origin, is one of the founding members of a special and elite club: he's a turncoat hacker. Once an infamous black hat, he's now the chief security architect for leading malware protection system developer FireEye. His list of notable accomplishments is many, but they will all be shadowed by his latest statement: Microsoft ...

Microsoft brought Vista to this year's Black Hat conference, which is a bold move considering their usually nefarious operating system problems in the past. Microsoft proved what they think of Vista's security and capabilities by letting the world's foremost security experts play with and pull it apart, bit by bit. Everyone has accused Microsoft of not caring enough about security, as they ...