Microsoft Boosts Bug Bounty to $100K
If you're a fan of hacking Microsoft's systems, then the company is going to reward you even more for your efforts.
No, Microsoft isn't masochistic. In actuality, its bug bounty program is designed to help the company address critical vulnerabilities and reward those who tinker with Microsoft's systems and services to find them. The goal, as with so many other bug bounty programs, is to give creative exploiters something for their efforts and to discourage them from releasing the results of their hacking to the larger underground communities and/or general public.
In a blog post released to coincide with the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, Microsoft's Security Response Center said it will raise the Bounty for Defense maximum from $50,000 to $100,000. The team is also "launching a bonus period for Authentication vulnerabilities in the Online Services Bug Bounty [and] adding RemoteApp to the list of domains covered in the Online Services Bug Bounty."
