Microsoft Launches $200,000 Security Innovation Contest

At the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, Microsoft announced a contest for excellence in defensive security technology. Dubbed "Blue Hat," the contest focuses on "the most effective ways to prevent the use of memory safety vulnerabilities."
Current technologies in this area include Data Execution Prevention (DEP) and Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR). Data Execution Prevention blocks attacks that force malicious code into memory areas marked as data. ASLR bollixes malware that needs to find certain code elements at specific addresses. Both Windows and iOS use ASLR.
Katie Moussouris, senior security strategist lead for the Microsoft Security Response Center, said "Microsoft wants to ... »read more

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