{"id":221907,"date":"2017-07-27T11:57:24","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T09:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=221907"},"modified":"2017-07-27T12:01:09","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T10:01:09","slug":"microsoft-launches-new-windows-bug-bounty-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/221907-microsoft-launches-new-windows-bug-bounty-programme.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft launches new Windows bug bounty programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has launched a new <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/msrc\/2017\/07\/26\/announcing-the-windows-bounty-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>bug bounty programme<\/strong><\/a> for Windows, which aims to maintain its &#8220;high security bar&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The company said the programme\u00a0will include all features of the Windows Insider Preview in addition to focus areas in Hyper-V, Mitigation bypass, Windows Defender Application Guard, and Microsoft Edge.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re also bumping up the pay-out range for the Hyper-V Bounty Program,&#8221; said Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>It said any\u00a0critical or important class remote code execution, elevation of privilege, or design flaws that compromise a customer\u2019s privacy and security will receive a bounty.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All security bugs are important to us and we request you report all security bugs to secure@microsoft.com via Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure policy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Information about the Microsoft Bounty Programs can be found at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/security\/dn425036\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>aka.ms\/BugBounty<\/strong>.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The payouts for the programme are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Microsoft Hyper-V (Windows 10 and Server 2012) &#8211; <strong>$5,000 to $250,000<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Mitigation bypass and defense (Windows 10) &#8211; <strong>$500 to $200,000<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Windows Defender and Application Guard (WIP Slow) &#8211; <strong>$500 to $30,000<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Microsoft Edge (WIP Slow) &#8211;\u00a0<strong>$500 to $15,000<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Windows Insider Preview (WIP Slow) &#8211;\u00a0<strong>$500 to $30,000<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/221863-russia-used-facebook-to-try-spy-on-french-presidential-campaign-report.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Russia used Facebook to try spy on French presidential campaign \u2013 Report<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has launched a new bug bounty programme for Windows, which aims to maintain its &#8220;high security bar&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":177211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[123,807],"class_list":["post-221907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-microsoft","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221907"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221915,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221907\/revisions\/221915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}