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  1. Announcing the BlueHat Prize winners!

    Minutes ago in Las Vegas at the Microsoft Researcher Appreciation Party, we completed the journey we set out on together at the 2011 Black Hat briefings. There, we asked the security research community to focus its talent and expertise on defense, to design and prototype novel runtime mitigation...
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  2. The BlueHat Prize finalists, in their own words

    In a little less than 24 hours, we will award $200,000 to Jared DeMott, Ivan Frantic, or Vasilis Pappas as we name the inaugural winner of the BlueHat Prize – and we’ll award more than $50,000 for the two runners-up. As excitement builds towards that announcement, I was fortunate...
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  3. Blue Hat Prize technology available in Tech Preview

    One year ago this week we challenged the security community to take an unconventional focus on defensive innovation. We called that challenge the Link Removed due to 404 Error, and tomorrow night, we will award the grand prize of $200,000 to one of the finalists - Jared DeMott, Ivan Fratric, or...
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  4. Countdown to the BlueHat Prize announcement and a chance for you to win $5000

    Hello, To mark the start of the 10-day countdown to the BlueHat Prize award ceremony, the MSRC Ecosystem Strategy Team is announcing the BlueHat Prize Question Sweepstakes that will give you a chance to win $5,000 at Black Hat this year! Be sure to check out the official announcement here and...
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  5. BlueHat Prize: And the finalists are...

    Hello, The judges have finished reviewing the submissions for the first BlueHat Prize contest and the finalists are in! Please visit Link Removed due to 404 Error for details on the three finalists and their entries that mitigate return-oriented programming (ROP). The finalists will collectively...
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  6. BlueHat Prize: And now the fun begins

    The entry window for the first annual BlueHat Prize closed at 11:59pm PDT on April 1. We've been eagerly awaiting a final entry count from the contest organizers, and senior security strategist Katie Moussouris has just posted that tally on the EcoStrat blog. Congratulations to all participants...
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  7. A live BlueHat Prize webcast and the August 2011 security updates

    Hello all. It has been very nearly a week since our Link Removed due to 404 Error at Black Hat. Now that everyone’s had some time to digest the basics, we’ve asked Senior Security Strategist and chief BlueHat Prize architect Katie Moussouris to stop by the Trustworthy Computing...
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  8. Announcing the BlueHat Prize for Advancement of Exploit Mitigations

    Protecting the general computing ecosystem is a really tough job, and given some of the media headlines, it’s easy to get discouraged and wallow in the problems. It seems like we’re constantly bombarded with statistics measuring the number of bugs, vulnerabilities, or attacks in an...
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