Microsoft bundles BlueHat finalist tech into anti-exploit tool
Microsoft has beefed up one of its anti-exploit tools with technology from a $200K contest finalist. Technology from a BlueHat Prize finalist Ivan Fratric, designed to mitigate attacks that leverage Return Oriented Programming (ROP), has already been incorporated into Redmond's Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) 3.5 …
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Micro$haft...
if they designed software waffle waffle drone drone...
There, that's the next 20 posts taken care of.
Re: Micro$haft...
Yup. Something about making something that doesn't suck, and vacuum cleaners...
Good lord. $200K for finding a problem in other people's code?
That's almost as much as the Turing Award, which requires long time commitment and actually having pushed computing forward.
Sometimes I think the security field is just a legalised racketeering group.
Drop in the ocean....
if it helps protect $70bn turnover.
And isn't the Turing award judged by your peers whereas this Bluehat prize is just a fancy public contract bid?
Re: Drop in the ocean....
How does it help if they keep finding new holes every year? It's like trying to plugging the holes on a sinking ship.
Yes the Turing award is judged by peers, just as security research should be - this on the other hand is more marketing than anything else.
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