In October, Microsoft rewarded a very large bonus (100.000 dollars) for the first time to security researcher James Forshaw for the discovery of a mitigation bypass exploit in Windows 8.1. This week, the company revealed that 100 has been given thousands of dollars to researcher Yu Yang to find and report on variants of the Mitigation Bypass.
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 by account on Twitter that he is $100.000 richer.
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Since the first announcement of the new software vulnerability detection program in June, Microsoft has awarded a total of 253.000 dollars to seven security researchers to find problems in Windows 8.1 and in the preview version of Internet Explorer 11.
