Microsoft has launched a competition in which the participants, a method must evolve to the abuse of vulnerabilities in the memory management of Windows. The winner can count on a price of $ 200,000.
Microsoft has launched the Blue Hat Prize was christened. Who wants to take things to the prices, to develop a methodology for geheugenexploits. Examples of possible problems that developers can focus are return-oriented programming and exploits that adress space layout randomization try to work around. Each submission must be a zip-file of up to 2MB in existence, containing a executable that the technique of demonstrating. In addition, a document of a maximum of ten pages will be described what problem will be addressed and which algorithms are used for this purpose.
The person who is the most innovative method develops, you can count on the top prize of $ 200,000. The second place is rewarded with $ 50,000 and the third place is good for a MSDN subscription worth $ 10,000. The contest runs from 3 August 2011 to 1 april 2012. The winner will be during the Black Hat USA 2012-security summit to be published.
From the conditions that the winner is automatically a global, free license to its technology to Microsoft provided, but the copyrights remain in the hands of the developers.