Specter and Meltdown have caused a massive problem in the market. Millions of users have been affected by these failures. Therefore, companies like Microsoft want to prevent this type of failure at all costs. So they have gotten to work with improvements in security. But, they also seek the collaboration of users. They do it with new rewards for finding severe security flaws.
Microsoft offers $ 250,000 for finding severe security flaws
The American company, therefore, provides up to $ 250,000 to users who can discover critical security failures. Although they have to comply with a series of requirements that they have established to obtain this amount of money.
Microsoft increases its rewards
This new program of awards of the company will be valid until December 31 of this same year. In the same will be collecting those vulnerabilities that are similar to Meltdown and Specter. Although logically it is security failures that have not been found. Or these are disclosed even those that the company is looking for. So users have a good motivation.
Microsoft offers from 25,000 to 250,000 dollars 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. Edge-related problems are also included in the program.
With this new rewards program, the company wants to avoid, at all costs, the repetition of a situation like the one experienced at the beginning of the year with these vulnerabilities. We will see if the users manage to find new failures or this attempt is nothing.