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News Focus: Vista at Black Hat

Microsoft turns off its sales pitch, puts on its technical hat and impresses the hackers at Black Hat.

Written by ZDNET Editors, Contributor Aug. 4, 2006 at 1:34 p.m. PT

Hackers and security experts head for Las Vegas once again for the Black Hat Briefings, to probe tech security and see what shakes out. This year should see a departure from the usual bug hunting and break-ins: Microsoft has reserved a slot to outline the defenses, rather than the weaknesses, in Vista's code.

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