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20-Year-Old Receives 22 Lakh Reward From Microsoft For Ethical Hacking
Aditi Singh, a 20-year-old girl has been rewarded $30,000 (Rs 22 lakh) by Microsoft for ethical hacking. Reportedly, Singh solved a major concern related to security and found an RCE bug in Microsoft's cloud platform Azure. "I joined the Allen Institute in Kota to prepare for the medicals... just been a year since I started bug bounty hunting," she said. However, she learned Javascript and other programming languages on YouTube.
Tags: bugs, Microsoft, software, Azure
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Microsoft's Revenue Soars As Demand For Cloud, Gaming Services Rises
Microsoft has reported an increase of 50% in the subscription of its 'Azure' cloud-computing services for the last quarter. The growth was a part of Microsoft's 'Intelligent cloud' segment that jumped 23% to $14.6 billion. Besides, the company generated $5 billion quarterly revenue with 40% growth in gaming subscriptions following launch of double-Xbox consoles in November 2020. Reportedly, Microsoft logged an overall year-on-year revenue of… read-more
Tags: Microsoft Corp, Cloud Computing, Xbox, Azure, business
Courtesy: Hindustan Times
