Microsoft paying $260k for exploits, building new anti-ROP defenses

[funkydude]

Microsoft unveiled the anti-ROP defenses on Thursday morning in a blog post announcing three finalists to its own competition. Microsoft's initiative will award more than $260,000 in cash and prizes for the development of new security protections to make its software more resistant to hack attacks. The BlueHat contest was unveiled at last year's Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, and the grand prize winner will be announced next month. Microsoft hasn't said when it expects the technologies to go live, or exactly which products will use them.

http://arstechnica.com/security/2012...urity-defense/

[funkydude]

Awesome news, glad MS is jumping on the "paying" bandwagon. I wonder how well Windows 8's new 'AppCountainer' sandbox handles ROP attacks though.