Apple hires former Windows Hacker away from Microsoft

According to a piece on Wired, Apple has hired?Kristin Paget away from Microsoft to be part of Apple's security team.

Just over five years ago, she was part of a small team of elite hackers brought in by Microsoft to lock down Windows Vista.

Her LinkedIn profile?now displays her job title as "Core OS Security Researcher at Apple."

It's intereting to note that she used to go by Chris Paget, presumably to conceal her gender in the male-dominated field of IT security and software engineering in general.?But she's not lacking credibility -- otherwise Microsoft and Apple wouldn't have hired her -- Paget has lots of experience in the field.?

While mostly under NDA (for obvious reasons) she spoke about her Windows?Vista hacking at Black Hat 2011 in Las Vegas when her NDA expired:

?We prevented a lot of bugs from shipping on Vista,? Paget said, according to a recording of her talk. ?I?m proud of the number of bugs we found and helped get fixed.?

In fact, she was so successful in her Windows bug tracking that she actually forced Vista to be delayed. She even received a special t-shirt?signed by Microsoft Vice President of Windows Development Brian Valentine that read "I delayed Windows Vista."

Apple's days of security by obscurity days are clearly over. In April it was revealed over 600,000 Macs were infected with malware. Apple added malware protection to OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard starting in 2009 and Paget's hiring is a great sign that the company is taking security seriously.

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