The easiest way to find vulnerabilities in a system is to pay a hacker to find them, or in the case of Microsoft, many hackers. One big one was discovered and they’re rewarding the revelation with lots of cash.
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Microsoft pays hacker over $100,000 for bringing out a bug
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Published October 8, 2013
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Microsoft Corp said on Tuesday it is paying a well-known hacking expert more than $100,000 for finding security holes in its software, one of the largest such bounties awarded to date by a high-tech company.
The software maker also released a much anticipated update to Internet Explorer, which it said fixes a bug that made users of the world’s most popular browser vulnerable to remote attack.
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