Microsoft To Pay $200k Prize For New Security Tech

Trailrunner7 writes "In the face of mounting external pressure to begin paying bug bounties, Microsoft is instead launching a new program that will pay a $200,000 top prize to a security researcher who develops the most innovative defensive security technology. The program is designed to 'inspire researchers to focus their talents on defensive technologies,' the company said. Known as the Blue Hat Prize, after the company's regular internal research conferences, the program will focus in its first year on getting researchers to design a novel runtime technology to defend against memory safety vulnerabilities. Microsoft security officials said that rather than paying for individual bugs the way that some other companies such as Google, Mozilla and others do, they wanted to encourage researchers to think about ways to defeat entire classes of bugs."

Comments

Sit on your butts!

[Dr.Bob,DC]

I can't understand why Microsoft would want to create a contest to promote people to sit on their butts for even longer than we do! This has no practical purpose, unlike Bill Gates' plan to bring toilets to the Third World. That's butt-sitting, yes, but it will help poorly managed nervous systems from being overrun by diseases like Cholera. If those people followed a strict vegan diet, their feces would help flush disease from their system.

The best computer defense is to TURN IT OFF!

Get plenty of exercise

Get plenty of sleep

Eat well, preferably an organic, vegan diet

Receive spinal adjustments to ensure your nervous system is in tip-top shape!

Take care,
Bob