News

• When children are breached – inside the massive VTech hack
  • Let's intro with bad security advice
    • Never encrypt
    • If you have to encrypt, use something well known like MD5
    • Don't check user input. If you can't trust your users, who can you trust?
    • If you find you've been hacked, don't worry about it - it probably will never happen again
    • Who needs SSL? There's too much traffic - nobody will be able to get your requests
    • Client-side validation is good enough
    • If you have to use SSL, you can trust certificates from anyone. If they took the time to generate them, and they must be smart.
• What’s new for Windows 10 IoT this fall
• Bing Launches their Mobile-Friendly Testing Tool
• Pull To Refresh and SlidableListItem controls for XAML UWP apps
  • Controls on GitHub
• Microsoft Build 2016 gets official dates
  • March 30 - April 1, 2016, in San Francisco
• Debugging an app while running in Continuum with Miracast

Ali Alvi

Lead Program Manager for Microsoft Band, responsible for application platform and developer tools for Microsoft Band. He's Been at Microsoft for 14 years and previously worked on Windows and Internet Explorer.

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