In October, Microsoft awarded a very large bonus ($100.000) to the first-time researcher better safetys James Forshaw for the discovery ενός mitigation bypass exploit στα Windows 8.1. Αυτή την εβδteam, the company revealed that another $100K has been given to researcher Yu Yang to find and report on the Mitigation Bypass variants.
The 100.000 dollar fee was posted discreetly on the website Bounty Hunter of Microsoft and also revealed through Twitter by Katie Moussouris, Senior Strategist of the Company.
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Ο Yu Yang, who works for NSFOCUS Labs Security, also announced from his Twitter account that he is richer by 100.000 dollars.
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From the first announcement of the new proletterof finding software vulnerabilities, in June, the Microsoft has awarded a total of 253.000 dollars to seven security researchers to find problems in Windows 8.1 and its preview version Internet Explorer 11.
