James Forshaw, who heads vulnerability research at UK consulting firm Context Information Security, won Microsoft's first $US100,000 ($106,000) bounty for identifying a new "exploitation technique" in Windows, which will allow it to develop defences against an entire class of attacks, the company said.

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