Microsoft pen test contest - $150000 award

[namespace7]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/19/microsoft_bug_bounty_black_hat/

http://www.microsoft.com/security/msrc/report/bountyprograms.aspx#

Go go go.

[Code.Illusionist]

My skills are like 0 for this task. But, let's see how other people do this. It's always great challenge .

[Darkvision]

heh, microsoft is finally putting out.

[vezzy]

They've been hiring private pentesters for ages, but it's interesting to see that they're now outsourcing to the public.

[Chef]

This looks like a cool thing Microsoft is doing.


Is there any way I can learn how to do what they are asking on this forum?


Thanks, feel free to private message me.

[ande]

Is there any way I can learn how to do what they are asking on this forum?

This is a hacking and security forum. They are looking for "hackers" to crack their protection methods/systems, come up with new protection concepts and break IE. Yeah, I think you've come to the right place. We might not have tutorials for these exact things, but what most of this all boils down to is reversing, software exploitation and quite deep OS/computer understanding. Which is topics you can find around here.

[Chef]

Damn Ande you are on a roll answering all my questions. I appreciate that a lot!
I will definitely be sticking around on this forum as it seems to have a very knowledgeable mature and of course friendly community!
 
Thanks man, right now I'm going to work on developing a fluent understanding of either C or C++ once I figure out the best path to take to learn them.
~Chef