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2013

Preparing for Live Pwnage: Mitigation Bypass Bounty Machine Specs for Black Hat

Wednesday, July 24, 2013

With about one week to go before we all gather at Black Hat in Las Vegas, we’re getting inquiries about precisely how the promised Live Mitigation Bypass Bounty judging at Black Hat will work. For most of the world, it works best when you get a good spot at the Microsoft booth (#301) around noon each day, so you can clearly see the excitement as some of security’s best and brightest look to pop built-in Windows 8.

July 2013 Security Bulletin Webcast, Q&A, and Slide Deck

Friday, July 12, 2013

Today we’re publishing the July 2013 Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page. During the webcast, we fielded 10 questions covering all updates. All questions are included on the Q&A page. We invite our customers to join us for the next scheduled webcast on Wednesday, August 14th at 11 a.m. PT (UTC -8), when we will go into detail about the August 2013 bulletin release and answer questions live on the air.

Filling A Gap In the Vulnerability Market – First Bounty Notification

Wednesday, July 10, 2013

When Microsoft decided to offer not one but three new bounties, paying outside researchers directly for security research on some of our latest products, we put a lot of thought into developing those bounty programs. We developed a customized set of programs designed to create a win-win between the security researcher community and Microsoft’s customers, by focusing on key data about what researchers were doing with vulnerabilities they found in our products.