$20,000 Hacker Challenge Placed on Windows Flaws, Exploits
- By Grey McKenzie
- Published 01/15/2008
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Billed as a Hacker Challenge,
the $20,000 "special prize" is being offered by Digital Armaments, one
of several companies that pay hackers who agree to give them exclusive
rights to advance notification of unpublished vulnerabilities or
exploit code.
Digital Armaments said the bounty will be available for each submission
that results in an exploitable vulnerability or working exploit against
Windows or a Windows Diffuse application. To qualify, the flaw data
must include examples and documentation, the company said.
Not much is known about the people behind Digital Armaments. The company's Web site does not include any details about its backers or its whereabouts.
This is not the first high-priced flaw data bounty from Digital Armaments, which previously offered hacking challenges for bugs in the Symbian OS, Oracle Database and VMware.
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