Microsoft Is Paying Upward To $250,000 Amongst Its Novel Põrnikas Bounty Program

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

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

In yesteryear 5 years the tech giant has launched multiple time-limited põrnikas bounty programs focused on diverse Windows features, together with afterwards seeing quite a flake of success, Microsoft has decided to continue.

"Security is ever changing, together with nosotros prioritise dissimilar types of vulnerabilities at dissimilar points inwards time. Microsoft strongly believes inwards the value of the põrnikas bounties, together with nosotros trust that it serves to heighten our safety capabilities."

With its latest põrnikas bounty program, Microsoft is offering upward to $250,000 inwards rewards to cybersecurity researchers together with põrnikas hunters who discovery vulnerabilities inwards the company's software, which mainly focuses on:

• Windows 10, Windows Server 2012 together with 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, principal focus areas together with 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 spider web log post. "The bounty plan is sustained together with volition proceed indefinitely at Microsoft’s discretion."

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

For to a greater extent than granular details virtually Microsoft's Bug Bounty Program, yous tin forcefulness out depository fiscal establishment check out the plan on the TechNet site.