Celebrating 20 Years of Trustworthy Computing

20 years ago this week, Bill Gates sent a now-famous email to all Microsoft employees announcing the creation of the Trustworthy Computing TwC initiative. The initiative was intended to put customer security, and ultimately customer trust, at the forefront for all Microsoft employees. Gates’ memo...

Blue Hat Sensitive Database Disclosure Vulnerability SQLi

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HackerOne Bug Bounty Platform Lands Top Microsoft Security Expert

With bug bounties being all the rage, the platforms that support them are emerging as important pieces of the security research, disclosure and reward ecosystem. One of those platforms, HackerOne, has scored a major coup in hiring Katie Moussouris, the driving force behind Microsoft’s bounty...

Microsoft Mitigation Bypass Bug Bounty Winner Yang Yu

Yang Yu is no stranger to writing mitigation bypasses for Microsoft Windows products. A year ago at the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, the 35-year-old security researcher from Beijing did an extensive presentation on bypassing Address Space Layout Randomization ASLR and Data Execution...

Microsoft Mitigation Bypass Bug Bounty Winner Yang Yu

Microsoft has paid out another $100,000 bounty as part of its Security Response Center’s bounty program. A researcher from Asia named Yang Yu was awarded the prize today for three mitigation bypass variants, Microsoft announced. “This payout reflects the fact that we learned something new that wi...

DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge Offers $2M to Winners

The bug bounty continues to be turned on its ear. Microsoft began the wave of paying premium money for mitigation technologies via its Blue Hat prizes, and now DARPA has gone all-in to the tune of $2 million for the development of an automated network defense system that not only scans for and...

Vasillis Pappas Wins $200,000 Microsoft Blue Hat Prize

LAS VEGAS–Microsoft on Thursday handed out three rather large checks to a trio of security researchers, the largest one–$200,000–going to Vasillis Pappas who won the company’s first Blue Hat Prize competition for defensive technologies. Pappas’s kBouncer ROP mitigation technology edged out...

From Three Nations and Three Different Perspectives, Blue Hat Finalists Focus on Defense

By Rob Lemos LAS VEGAS — If Jared DeMott hadn’t been eager to take a different path, he would never be in security, much less a finalist in Microsoft’s search for defensive technologies, known as the Blue Hat Prize.Raised in a manufacturing town, he was accepted to the Air Force Academy in 1996,...

Microsoft Reveals Blue Hat Prize Finalists

Microsoft has announced the three finalists for its $200,000 Blue Hat Prize contest and all three of the researchers in the running for the win submitted technologies designed to defeat ROP return-oriented programming exploits. Each of the entrants takes a different tack with his ROP defense and ...

Katie Moussouris on the Microsoft Blue Hat Prize

Dennis Fisher talks with Katie Moussouris of Microsoft about the company’s new Blue Hat Prize for innovative defensive security technology, why Microsoft didn’t start a bug bounty program and whether this will become an annual contest. Podcast audio courtesy of sykboy65 Subscribe to the Digital...

Microsoft to Pay $200,000 for Innovative Defense Technology in Blue Hat Prize Program

LAS VEGAS–In the face of mounting external pressure to begin paying bug bounties, Microsoft is instead launching a new program that will pay a $200,000 top prize to a security researcher who develops the most innovative defensive security technology. The program is designed to “inspire researcher...

Blue Hat Sensitive Database Disclosure SQLi Vulnerability

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Blue Hat - Sensitive Database Disclosure / SQL Injection

+Exploit Title: Powered by Blue Hat Sensitive Database Disclosure Vulnerability +Author : ^Xecuti0n3r + Date : 12.04.2011 + Hour : 13:37 PM + E-mail : xecuti0n3ryahoo.com + dork : intext:"Powered by Blue Hat" + Category : Web Apps SQli Choose any site that comes up when you enter the dork...