Microsoft awarded $100,000 to researcher James Forshaw for new way to circumvent Windows 8.1’s defenses. Forshaw says he spent about half a month on the project. Microsoft’s bounty reward program kicked off a pair of new bounty programs, including the Mitigation Bypass Bounty. Microsoft hinted it may be a long time before it steps out from inside the cone of silence. Microsoft says it will launch next week’s update next week to update Microsoft’s software with the latest version of the software.”]