http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/170431/microsoft_reaches_out_at_china_hacker_conference.html Owen Fletcher IDG News Service August 19, 2009 Microsoft shared the stage with Chinese security researchers at a Beijing hacker conference on Wednesday, aiming to build ties in a country that produces a growing number of threats to Microsoft products. John Lambert, a team head at the Microsoft Security Engineering Center, spoke to an audience of a few hundred people about security features in Microsoft products and tools used by the company to find vulnerabilities in its software. Microsoft has worked to build contacts with security researchers worldwide, but the language barrier and low attendance by Chinese experts at overseas conferences make the country's security circles harder to access, Lambert said. Important security research increasingly comes out of China, but is often presented in Chinese, he said. Microsoft was a sponsor of the Beijing forum, called XCon, and Lambert said the company would consider attending other security conferences in China where skilled researchers gather. [...] ________________________________________ Subscribe to InfoSec News http://www.infosecnews.orgReceived on Thu Aug 20 2009 - 02:24:32 PDT
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0 : Thu Aug 20 2009 - 02:41:22 PDT