14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft launched a Windows 8.1 bounty campaign in June to encourage more security researchers to look for security flaws in the new operating system.
Today, the company announced the extension of the program, saying that it’s now accepting mitigation bypass techniques submitted by responders and forensic experts.
“Today’s news means we are going from accepting entries from only a handful of individuals capable of inventing new mitigation bypass techniques on their own, to potentially thousands of individuals or organizations who find attacks in the wild. Now, both finders and discoverers can turn in new techniques for $100,000,” the company said.
Up until now, only a single person won the $100,000 (€74,000) bounty for Windows 8.1, but several others qualified for a second bounty program supposed to help find flaws in Internet Explorer 11.