Standing behind “MSRC Listens”

Last week at BlueHat’s “MSRC Listens” session, I took the stage with Mechele Gruhn, manager of the Vulnerability Response PM team, to explain how MSRC is changing our communication, workflows, and tooling to deliver an improved user experience for our partners in the security research community. ...

Announcing Changes to Microsoft’s Mitigation Bypass Bounty

Today we’re announcing a change to the Mitigation Bypass Bounty that removes Control Flow Guard CFG from the set of in-scope mitigations. In this blog, we’ll provide additional background and explain why we’re making this change. Mitigation Bypass Bounty Background Microsoft started the Mitigatio...

Microsoft .NET Core, ASP.NET Beta Bug Bounty

Microsoft today opened a bounty for the .NET Core and ASP.NET Beta, both of which are part of the Visual Studio development suite. The bounty will remain open through Jan. 20 and payouts will fall between $500 and $15,000 USD. Microsoft said only bugs in the .NET core runtime CoreCLR and beta...

Lessons Learned in Building a Vulnerability Coordination Program

CANCUN – Bounty programs are mislabeled creatures, too often pigeonholed as a payoff for finding individual vulnerabilities in software. Wrong. “The name bug bounty is actually a false categorization of what is truly just an incentive program,” said Katie Moussouris, chief policy officer at...