Microsoft's most wanted
MS-Watch | at | by Mike
More than two months ago, I called on Microsoft to take out the botnets and their perpetrators. The call may have been answered.
Microsoft has invited security experts to its Redmond, Wash., campus for super-secret meetings on Thursday and Friday. The two-day event is so hush, hush that eWeek.com has a story about the meeting of security minds.
Real escapade would be some Black Hat live chatting the event over IRC, because he or she had hacked one of the participant's computers.
Seriously, all ribbing aside, this week's meeting is potentially a watershed event for Microsoft. The proliferation of botnets and increasing number of zero-day vulnerabilities put Microsoft, its customers and the whole Internet at risk. Microsoft is one of several companies capable of putting on the Marshall's badge and standing up to the marauders terrorizing the Netizens. Microsoft is right to rally the security good guys into a posse of botnet hunters.