Microsoft's BlueHat prize comes with $200,000 for the first place winner.
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LAS VEGAS -- A year ago this week, Microsoft announced a startup-style contest with serious reward money called BlueHat to get security researchers to apply their expertise to innovative defenses. Today, the company revealed that the efforts of one of the three BlueHat finalists would be incorporated into their Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit tool.
Mike Reavey, the senior director of Microsoft's Security Response Center, explained that the BlueHat contest process was a big win for Microsoft. "In less than a year, we were able to solicit for ideas, receive them, implement them, and get them to customers," he said during a phone call with CNET last week.
The new version of EMET, as the tool is known, will soon ship with Return Oriented Programming (ROP) defenses "inspired" by the work of BlueHat finalist Ivan Fratric, Microsoft said in a press release announcing the tool upgrade. "ROP is an advanced technique that attackers use to combine short pieces of benign code, already present in a system, for a malicious purpose," Microsoft explained.
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