The next generation of security threats

Microsoft security engineer Robert Hensing had a question for the hundreds of his company's developers seated before him: can a person's PC become infected with a rootkit simply by opening a PowerPoint file? In the packed conference center, a smattering of developers raise their hands. Nearby, in an adjacent room, where hackers invited to speak at Microsoft's Blue Hat conference watch the presentations on TV, an entire table of hands go up.

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