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The Blue Hats Are Coming! The Blue Hats Are Coming!

Later this week, hackers with good intentions will descend upon Redmond, Wash. and try to break into Windows and other Microsoft products. Microsoft will give back by drilling deep into new security issues such as virtualization, mobile and Office. Good times, good times!

Posted by Doug Barney on September 24, 2007


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