Microsoft offers $100,000 to hack its Linux based IoT security platform
By MYBRANDBOOK
As per news report, Microsoft is offering hackers $100,000 (£81,000) if they can break an IoT security platform. It is run on Linux OS instead of Windows 10.
There are also conditions attached.
For a start, this isn't a challenge to hack into any old Linux OS. Instead, it's a very specific Linux OS that Microsoft has in mind: one that powers its Internet-of-Things (IoT) end-to-end security platform. That platform is Azure Sphere.
This operating system is highly customized and very compact which is combined with a a secure application environment for additional hardening.
Azure Sphere is designed to help take much of the risk out of the IoT equation, and that's why Microsoft has announced a new phase in its Azure Sphere Security Research Challenge.
The new challenge will only run for three months starting June 1. To participate in the challenge, security researchers will need to submit their applications before May 15.
The 50 hackers who are accepted into the challenge pool will get all the resources they need to take on the scenario-based vulnerability discovery test. Resources that will include full access to the Azure Sphere development kit as well as to other Microsoft products and services that could be used during their research.
This challenge will Microsoft to uncover critical vulnerabilities that might otherwise go unnoticed. Unnoticed, that is, until threat actors find and exploit them. Microsoft would hope that there are no such vulnerabilities that could enable the execution of code on the Pluton root of trust security subsystem for Azure Sphere, but if there are, then that could be $100,000 right there.
Find a vulnerability that would enable code execaution on Secure World, situated below the custom Linux kernel, and where only Microsoft-supplied code should be able to run courtesy of the Security Monitor, and there's another potential $100,000.
"Security is a team sport," Sylvie Liu, the Security Program Manager at the Microsoft Security Response Center, said, "and security researchers are so important to making technology as secure as possible."
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