Microsoft offers $ 250,000 for finding serious security flaws

Specter and Meltdown have caused a huge problem in the market. Millions of users have been affected by these failures. For this reason, companies like Microsoft want to prevent this type of failure at all costs. So they have gotten to work with security improvements. But, they also seek collaboration from users. They do so with new rewards for finding serious security flaws.

Microsoft offers $ 250, 000 for finding serious security flaws

The American company therefore offers up to $ 250, 000 to users who manage to find very serious security flaws. Although they have to meet a series of requirements that they have established to obtain this amount of money.

Microsoft increases its rewards

This new company rewards program will be in effect until December 31 of this year. It will include those vulnerabilities that are similar to Meltdown and Specter. Although logically these are security flaws that have not yet been found or disclosed that the company is looking for. So users have good motivation.

Microsoft offers from $ 25, 000 to $ 250, 000 depending on the severity of the failure found by the user. So some people can earn a lot of money by finding some vulnerability in the operating system. Also Edge related issues are included in the program.

With this new rewards program, the company wants to avoid at all costs a situation like the one experienced at the beginning of the year with these vulnerabilities from happening again. We will see if the users manage to find new bugs or if this attempt doesn't work.

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