The company’s bounty program for IE11 has come to an end

Oct 8, 2013 02:06 GMT  ·  By

Microsoft has just announced that Internet Explorer 11 bounty program launched in June has finally come to an end, with Redmond paying more than $28,000 (€20,600) to security experts who found vulnerabilities in its browser.

“We’ve worked with so many bright security researchers through the years, and are thrilled that through the bounty programs, we received reports from researchers who had never reported to us directly before. This means we have even more great minds interested in working directly with us to help make our products more secure,” Katie Moussouris, senior security strategist, Microsoft Security Response Center, explained in a blog post.

One of those who received a bounty award is none other than Ivan Fratric, a Google security engineer that discovered flaws worth $1,100 (€950). What’s more, Fermin J. Serna, also a Google employee, received $500 (€360) for finding another glitch in Microsoft’s browser.

Both Google employees have donated the money to charity.

James Forshaw working for Context Security has received no less than $4,400 (€3,200) for the bugs he found in the app, as well as $5,000 (€3,500) for what Microsoft called “cool IE design vulnerabilities.”