Microsoft on Tuesday forked out what might be the biggest payment to a bug hunter yet: $100,000. The money went to James Forshaw, head of vulnerability research at Context Information Security, for coming up with a new exploitation technique that affects Windows 8.1 Preview. “James’ Mitigation Bypass Bounty submission will help us strengthen platform-wide mitigations that serve as a part of ‘the shield’ that is built into Windows 8.1 Preview,” said Katie Moussouris, senior security strategist at the Microsoft Security Response Center.
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Microsoft Pays First-Ever $100K Bounty for Windows Bug
Posted by: Richard Adhikari October 9, 2013 03:12 PMMicrosoft on Tuesday forked out what might be the biggest payment to a bug hunter yet: $100,000. The money went to James Forshaw, head of vulnerability research at Context Information Security, for coming up with a new exploitation technique that affects Windows 8.1 Preview. “James’ Mitigation Bypass Bounty submission will help us strengthen platform-wide mitigations that serve as a part of ‘the shield’ that is built into Windows 8.1 Preview,” said Katie Moussouris, senior security strategist at the Microsoft Security Response Center.