Tech giant takes on blackhat community with new bounty system
Microsoft has extended the payment criteria of its bug bounty programme to include early alerts about active cyber attacks on its services.Microsoft offers bug hunters $100,000 for early attack alerts
Senior security strategist at the Microsoft Security Response Center, Katie Moussouris, announced the extension in a blog post, confirming early attack spotters could be eligible for a payment of up to $100,000.
"We are expanding the pool of talent who can participate and submit novel mitigation bypass techniques and defensive ideas to include responders and forensic experts who find active attacks in the wild. That means more people can 'sing along' to earn big bounty payouts than ever before," read the post.
