back to article Game to go a round with a Spartan? Microsoft will pay if you bruise it

Redmond will expand its bug-bounty program ahead of the launch of Windows 10, including a two-month hunt for vulnerabilities in its Project Spartan browser. If you want to play Athens to Microsoft's Spartan, there's as much as US$15,000 up for grabs for remote code execution bugs, sandbox escapes, and “design-level security …

  1. x 7

    going live end of july? Cutting it a bit fine to find and remedy everything.

  2. Hans 1

    >The Azure bounty offer will cover virtual machines, cloud services, storage, Active Directory “and much more” Shirt wrote.

    The guy in charge of certificate renewal is the largest threat to QoS, there, how much do I get for that, MS ?

  3. Dan 55 Silver badge
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    It's a bit of an easy challenge

    Start by going through the IE11 CVEs that don't involve Active X or quirks mode.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: It's a bit of an easy challenge

      "Start by going through the IE11 CVEs that don't involve Active X or quirks mode."

      Spartan is completely new code...

  4. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    "Jason Shirk writes"

    "Shirt wrote"

    Which is it? Both are very cool surnames. If it's the former, his parents missed out on naming him something beginning with "I". Same for any surname that can be a verb.

    For the latter, his parents are culpable for not giving him a first name beginning with "T".

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