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Downloads Featuring 140 levels in adventure mode alone, 3 game modes, 86 pages of comic book storyline, and a full orchestral musical score, Bounty will surely shiver your timbers Set sail with Mirabelle and her motley crew of pirates in search of the...
[January 18, 2007, 6:57]
iDefense offers bounty for Vista and IE7 flaws
News Security intelligence and analysis company iDefense is to offer an $8,000 bounty for vulnerabilities found in Vista and Internet Explorer 7 (IE7).iDefense, which became part of Verisign in July 2005, is offering the cash as part of its...
[January 11, 2007, 15:44]
Microsoft's hacker bounty is a waste of money
Talkback In your article "Microsoft's hacker bounty is a waste of money" you erronously state that Mac OS X doesn't ship with a firewall - this is INCORRECT. It does ship with a firewall. I am running OS X v10.2.8 and I currently have my firewall switched ON.
[November 13, 2003, 10:24]
Can Microsoft's virus bounty fight organised crime?
News This new breed of virus writers and spammers will not feel threatened by a $250,000 bounty on their heads. Microsoft's $5m Reward Program may help catch script kiddies, such as the German teenager suspected of authoring a variant of the Sasser worm...
[May 10, 2004, 17:30]
News Burst: BSA puts £10,000 bounty on software pirates
News The Alliance claims that software piracy is rife among businesses in the UK and hopes that the 10k bounty will prompt employees to inform on crooked firms. The Business Software Alliance (BSA) is offering £10,000 reward for information that helps...
[November 3, 2000, 10:51]
Mozilla offers $500 bug bounty
News Linux software maker Linspire and Internet entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth funded the new initiative, dubbed the Mozilla Security Bug Bounty Program. A string of high-profile flaws in browser software prompted the Mozilla Foundation to announce on...
[August 3, 2004, 11:00]
BSA offers £10,000 bounty for software pirates
News The Alliance claims that software piracy is rife among businesses in the UK and hopes that the 10k bounty will prompt employees to inform on crooked firms. The Business Software Alliance (BSA) is offering £10,000 reward for information that helps...
[November 3, 2000, 13:12]
Virus bounty 'will change nothing'
News Some security experts believe the bounty could disrupt the relationships between virus writers, effectively shutting down the loose online circles where authors meet and exchange code. This bounty is really meant to deter people from releasing...
[November 6, 2003, 8:10]
Librarians mutiny over Moore's Law bounty
News Librarians at Stanford University, the University of Washington and other universities say they are angry at Santa Clara, California-based Intel for posting on eBay a $10,000 bounty for a copy of the magazine.
[April 15, 2005, 9:50]
Can Microsoft's virus bounty fight organised crime?
Talkback I think that rather than offering a bounty for the virus writers who obvious exploit security holes within Windows, the bounty should be put on the head of whichever Microsoft programmer let such obvious security holes aflict millions of people...
[May 10, 2004, 23:59]
BSA offers $1m US 'piracy' bounty
News Americans willing to report their employers for using counterfeit software will be able to claim up to $1m (£496,181) in rewards, after the Business Software Alliance announced a three-month promotional bounty.
[July 4, 2007, 15:56]
Mozilla offers $500 bug bounty
Talkback surely the creators of these bugs could just create them and then 'discover' them to recieve the reward?
[August 3, 2004, 12:26]
Microsoft's hacker bounty is a waste of money
Talkback Microsoft should offer a 1M prize for a virus that can shut down the 5% Macintosh population of the world. Since the people running Mac's aren't doing anything important anyways, nobody will probably care except for the PR people for both companies.
[November 17, 2003, 23:22]
Sasser bounty hangs on conviction, says Microsoft
News The charges are the latest success for Microsoft's virus bounty effort. Sven Jaschan, the alleged author of the Sasser worm and several variants of the Netsky virus, was charged last week by German police, but the informant who led authorities to...
[September 13, 2004, 8:15]
Microsoft's hacker bounty is a waste of money
Talkback Microsoft will NEVER offer a prize for hacking into OSX. Why? Coz the odds are noone will successfully hack it, and M$ will look extremely stupid.
[November 23, 2003, 3:35]
Open source specialists offered tech support bounty
Talkback European companies exist that have been doing this sort of thing for years - minus the Xbox (which a stupid idea). Why the article?
[May 9, 2006, 16:10]
BSA offers £20k bounty to rat on your boss
Talkback "£20,000 reward to anyone who informs on their employer using illegal or unlicensed software" - I would be happy to use "illegal or unlicensed software" to inform on my masters. But there's no doubt a missing "for" in the above quotation.
[April 28, 2006, 19:24]
BSA offers £20k bounty to rat on your boss
Talkback For some reason or another decision makers believe everthing Microsoft says except when it comes down to the details of Microsoft's licensing agreements. Thus they deploy the whole bundle of joy without good record keeping in various license...
[May 10, 2006, 23:02]
Librarians mutiny over Moore's Law bounty
Talkback It's strange. Why Mr Gordon Moore himself didn't keep a copy of the original with him?
[April 15, 2005, 23:55]
Symantec flaw found by TippingPoint bounty hunters
Talkback ARE THERE ANY SUCH THIING AS AbOUNTY hUNTER IN THE U.K
[November 10, 2005, 9:36]
