Digital Armaments company offers $ 20 thousand for a vulnerability in Windows

Digital Armaments Research Company, a computer security, has announced to hold over the January-February contest for finding vulnerabilities in Windows and applications employed in it. Those who will be able to provide documentation and malicious code, expects a reward in the amount of $ 20000. Concerns raised several points. To begin at the company's website address is missing or telephones, and on published information found typographical and grammatical errors. Even in the title of the contest is incorrect. Paying for vulnerabilities - major business activities Digital Armaments, the work carried out within our own Digital Armaments Contributor Program. If you believe information on the site, Digital Armaments working group was established in 2003.

The practice of open purchase of vulnerability is not new and does not constitute illegal activity. Of course, it annoys developers whose products affect detected errors. But as rightly pointed buyers information about errors, it is better to let them be open to buy it, as hackers will be traded errors on the black market. Moreover, developers often do not want to pay for information, thereby forcing researchers themselves to seek remuneration for the work done. Last year, proposals for vulnerabilities discovered even opened an online auction.