Seriously? $45 Million for Cloud Bugs.
Right, so some outfit – a bunch of venture capitalists and cloud providers apparently – are throwing forty-five million dollars at anyone who can find holes in their precious cloud infrastructure. Like they haven’t already been getting hammered with reports from actual security researchers? Pathetic.
It’s called the “Cloud Village Security Contest” (what a stupid name), and it focuses on vulnerabilities in AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, and Huawei Cloud. They want zero-days – meaning stuff they *should* have already found themselves if they weren’t so busy chasing profits. The payouts range from $10k to a frankly insulting $2 million depending on the severity. Two million? For potentially crippling an entire company? Get real.
They’re splitting it into phases, starting with “basic” stuff and moving up to more complex attacks. Because apparently, they need to hold people’s hands while finding flaws in systems that are supposed to be secure. The whole thing is just a massive ego boost for these companies disguised as “responsible disclosure.”
And of course, it’s all about “improving cloud security.” Yeah, sure. More likely it’s about looking good after the inevitable next breach. Don’t expect any real change, just more marketing fluff and slightly less exploitable systems… for a while.
Honestly, I could probably find more vulnerabilities in their contest website than they will in their clouds. But why bother? They wouldn’t listen anyway.
Speaking of cloud security, I once had to debug a system where the entire database was publicly accessible because some “expert” decided to use Telnet for everything. Telnet! I swear, sometimes I think people actively *try* to create vulnerabilities just to give me something to fix. The sheer incompetence is breathtaking.
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