Within minutes after the meeting was convened, the hackers – or ‘security researchers’ as they are known – had successfully lured a Windows laptop onto a malicious wireless network.
“It was just silent,” said Stephen Toulouse, a program manager in Microsoft’s security unit. “You couldn’t hear anybody breathe.”
The unusual March gathering, a summit of sorts between delegates of the hacking community and their primary corporate target, illustrates how important security has become to the software behemoth.
Very unique gathering for sure. Good read though, you can check it out at Silicon.com.