Microsoft turns the table on hackers offering $250,000 reward for researchers who create defences to protect Windows users against cyber-attacksBosses at Microsoft are hoping to turn poachers into gamekeepers by offering computer hackers $250,000 to develop new security defences for their software.The firm's BlueHat Prize, which is open to programmers everywhere, will pay $200,000 to the person who comes up with what they judge to be the best new way of preventing cyber-attacks.
SECURITY RESEARCHERS at antivirus vendor Trend Micro have uncovered a large-scale cyber espionage operation that uses malware to steal information from hundreds of computers belonging to many governments, mostly in the former USSR.
"The countries most impacted by this attack are Russia, Kazakhstan and Vietnam, along with numerous other countries - mainly in the CIS (Commonwealth Independent States - or former Soviet Union)," the Trend Micro researchers noted.