Microsoft Is Paying Upwards To $250,000 Alongside Its Novel Põrnikas Bounty Program

Microsoft has in conclusion launched a novel dedicated põrnikas bounty plan to encourage safety researchers as well as põrnikas hunters for finding as well as responsibly reporting vulnerabilities inwards its latest Windows versions of operating systems as well as software.

Being the favourite target of hackers as well as cyber criminals, every unmarried zero-day vulnerability inwards Windows OS—from critical remote code execution, mitigation bypass as well as elevation of privilege to pattern flaws—could crusade a crisis similar recent WannaCry as well as Petya Ransomware attacks.

In past times 5 years the tech giant has launched multiple time-limited põrnikas bounty programs focused on diverse Windows features, as well as subsequently seeing quite a fleck of success, Microsoft has decided to continue.

"Security is e'er changing, as well as nosotros prioritise unlike types of vulnerabilities at unlike points inwards time. Microsoft strongly believes inwards the value of the põrnikas bounties, as well as nosotros trust that it serves to elevate our safety capabilities."

With its latest põrnikas bounty program, Microsoft is offering upwardly to $250,000 inwards rewards to cybersecurity researchers as well as põrnikas hunters who detect vulnerabilities inwards the company's software, which mainly focuses on:

• Windows 10, Windows Server 2012 as well as Insider Previews
• Microsoft Hyper-V
• Mitigation Bypass Techniques
• Windows Defender Application Guard
• Microsoft Edge Browser

Below is the nautical chart showing details of the targets, brain focus areas as well as the respective payouts:

"In the spirit of maintaining a high-security bar inwards Windows, we’re launching the Windows Bounty Program on July 26, 2017," Microsoft says inwards a weblog post. "The bounty plan is sustained as well as volition proceed indefinitely at Microsoft’s discretion."

Recently, the non-profit grouping behind Tor Project joined hands amongst HackerOne as well as launched a põrnikas bounty plan amongst the payout of upwardly to $4,000 to researchers as well as põrnikas hunters for finding as well as reporting flaws that could compromise the anonymity network.

For to a greater extent than granular details well-nigh Microsoft's Bug Bounty Program, yous tin shipping away cheque out the plan on the TechNet site.

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