Microsoft announced that it paid more than 2.7 million yen for IE 11 bugfixes

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Microsoft did not acknowledge the necessity of "Bounty Program" which pays compensation as a reward for those who found vulnerabilities in programs and web services,Three Bounty Programs announced to start from June 26, 2013. One of them is "Interenet Explorer 11 Preview Bug BountyAs a result of one month, we announced that we paid more than $ 28,000 (about 2.7 million yen) to six bug detectors.

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James Forshaw, who found 4 bugs and 1 vulnerability, received the most rewards among the six bugfixes, totaling $ 9400 (about 930,000 yen), the second most reward Received money was Jose Antonio Vazquez Gonzalez who reported 5 bugs, totaling $ 5,500 (about 540,000 yen). In addition, two people work for a security research company.

ByAndreas Åkre Solberg

Those who received the third most frequent reward of 2200 dollars (about 210,000 yen) found Japanese bugs at Mr. Kanigawa Masato. The other three discovers included two engineers from Google and received a reward of $ 1,100 (about 110,000 yen) and 500 dollars (about 50,000 yen) respectively,Save The Children FundIt donated to a non-governmental organization called. The reward of Peter Vreugdenhil who is another bug finder has not been announced.

ByAlexander Minza

Microsoft said that the official version of Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 8 / RT will be released on October 26, 2013 along with Windows 8.1.