Microsoft offers $250,000 for security defense research

Post date: Aug 04, 2011 9:33:17 PM

Microsoft today announced that it will give out $250,000 in BlueHat Prize rewards for innovative research on computer security defense. Winners will be announced at next year's Black Hat security conference, with the grand prize being $200,000 and second prize being $50,000, Katie Moussouris, head of Microsoft's Security Community Outreach and Strategy team, said in a conference call from the conference being held

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