Windows has had it’s share of vulnerabilities in the past, so now Microsoft is offering more than $250,000 in cash and prizes for contestants who can come up with new ways to mitigate exploits. Anonymous and LulzSec are out there after all, taking companies down.
Microsoft will pay $200,000 for the best “novel runtime mitigation technology designed to prevent the exploitation of memory safety vulnerabilities.” Two runners up will also receive $50,000 and a MSDN Universal subscription valued at $10,000. I’d say that is lots of incentive to come up with some new tricks, wouldn’t you?
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Microsoft, money, researchers, Security, Windows 
This has been the last post since August 4th. Is everything okay, SlipperyBrick?
Hehe…anyone else think that Anonymous and LulzSec will enter for the prize?
Scary organizations, those guys…
I hope you didn’t just imply that LulzSec are actually talented enough to find zero day exploits themselves. >.>
tell microsoft to use linux.
Interesting, Microsoft should employee them instead of giving them a prize. This is almost like a temporary solution to a big problem, without having to hire a genious and pay them 20 times the amount below. Cheap bastards.
This ia a great idea, we should support innovation!
Hmm, very interesting.. any updates on who’s the best of them all in enhancing microsoft’s windows security?