Microsoft opens up their bounty program
Posted by: Timothy Weaver on 11/05/2013 04:54 PM
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Microsoft is expanding its security bug bounty program.
Microsoft would like anyone from sysadmins to software engineers on the sharp end of a digital attack in the wild to report their findings. Make sure that you collect all the evidence you can, because Redmond wants proof-of-concept exploit code and a technical analysis of the assault before it will hand over the prize.
Katie Moussouris, senior security strategist lead for Microsoft Trustworthy Computing said ""We want to learn about these rare new exploitation techniques as early as possible, ideally before they are used, but we’ll pay for them even if they are currently being used in targeted attacks if the attack technique is new – because we want them dead or alive."
Microsoft would like anyone from sysadmins to software engineers on the sharp end of a digital attack in the wild to report their findings. Make sure that you collect all the evidence you can, because Redmond wants proof-of-concept exploit code and a technical analysis of the assault before it will hand over the prize.
Katie Moussouris, senior security strategist lead for Microsoft Trustworthy Computing said ""We want to learn about these rare new exploitation techniques as early as possible, ideally before they are used, but we’ll pay for them even if they are currently being used in targeted attacks if the attack technique is new – because we want them dead or alive."
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