The evolution of Microsoft Threat Protection, June update

Since our announcement of Microsoft Threat Protection at Microsoft Ignite, our goal has been to execute and deliver on our promise of helping organizations protect themselves from today’s sophisticated and complex threat landscape. As we close out our fiscal year, we’ve continued progress on...

Investigating identity threats in hybrid cloud environments

As the modern workplace transforms, the identity attack surface area is growing exponentially, across on-premises and cloud, spanning a multitude of endpoints and applications. Security Operations SecOps teams are challenged to monitor user activities, suspicious or otherwise, across all dimensio...

Ensuring security of your Microsoft Teams apps with Microsoft Cloud App Security

Apps in Microsoft Teams allow you to leverage additional capabilities, enhance your experience, and make Teams work for you by adding your favorite Microsoft and third-party services. Today, hundreds of ecosystem apps provide a great way to enhance and customize Teams, but to enable applications...

Don’t get burnt on pay day. How to buy IoT gadgets sensibly

As it’s the end of the month, and pay day for many, I thought some timely advice would be helpful for people itching to spend their money on IoT gadgets. It’s not all bad. While many manufacturers happily continue to fill shelves with dross, we know plenty of responsible companies whose products...

Safeguard your most sensitive data with Microsoft 365

I am Security Operations’ SecOps worst nightmare. Or at least I used to be. As an industrious product marketer, I often share intellectual property think: details of new product capabilities or spreadsheets that contain customer personal identifying information PII with colleagues and vendors. We...

CVE-2018-14990

CVE-2018-14990 affects multiple Android devices (Coolpad Defiant, ZTE ZMAX Pro, T-Mobile Revvl Plus) due to a pre-installed Rich Communication Services (RCS) app. The vulnerable components include a package named com.suntek.mway.rcs.app.service (with a TestReceiver broadcast receiver) and a refac...

Discover and manage shadow IT with Microsoft 365

While IT teams methodically plan corporate adoption of cloud services, the rest of us have dived in headfirst. Ten years ago, a vendor shared a video file with me via Dropbox because it was too big to email. It was my first experience with a cloud file sharing service, and when I realized I could...

Step 7. Discover shadow IT and take control of your cloud apps: top 10 actions to secure your environment

The “Top 10 actions to secure your environment” series outlines fundamental steps you can take with your investment in Microsoft 365 security solutions. In “Step 7. Discover shadow IT and take control of cloud apps,” you’ll learn how to set up Microsoft Cloud App Security MCAS to identify, access...

Beijing Changping APP has overstepping access vulnerability

Beijing Changping app is an exclusive mobile news and information software for Beijing Changping area. Beijing Changping App has an override access vulnerability, which can be exploited by attackers to obtain information about other users...

Hacking ski helmet audio

I love snow sports, and I also like my tunes, so purchasing the Outdoor Tech CHIPS smart headphones was a no-brainer. They fit into audio-equipped helmets and have huge 40mm drivers. Warm ears and good bass. Better yet, they’re touch sensitive even with gloves on and I can take calls handsfree...

Part 2: Mobile Banking and Buying: Best Practices

In the first part of this two-part blog, we outlined the kinds of banking and buying you can do on your mobile device, but also the things to watch out for. You might have noticed that our cautionary notes center around four threat vectors you need to track to stay safe: device, app, network, and...

Code injection

The Coolpad Canvas device with a build fingerprint of Coolpad/cp3636a/cp3636a:7.0/NRD90M/093031423:user/release-keys contains a platform app with a package name of com.qualcomm.qti.modemtestmode versionCode=24, versionName=7.0 that contains an exported service app component named...

CVE-2018-1000812

The CVE-2018-1000812 entry concerns Artica Integria IMS (versions around 5.0 MR56 Package 58 and likely earlier) with a CWE-640 Weak Password Recovery Mechanism in the Password recovery process. The vulnerability in general/password_recovery.php (line 45) can allow takeover of IntegriaIMS web app...

app.flocknote.com XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-701256 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| app.flocknote.com Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| hidden until disclosure Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| hidde...

Advice on buying ‘smart’ gadgets for Christmas

Christmas isn’t far off, and many of you will be in full present buying mode. In the world of smart-this and connected-that there is more at stake than ever before, and we’re not talking about whether batteries are included or not. As we’ve been testing the security of smart products for over 5...

The evolution of Microsoft Threat Protection, November update

At Ignite 2018, we announced Microsoft Threat Protection, a comprehensive, integrated solution securing the modern workplace across identities, endpoints, user data, cloud apps, and, infrastructure Figure 1. The foundation of the solution is the Microsoft Intelligent Security Graph, which...

Windows 10 Bug Let UWP Apps Access All Files Without Users' Consent

Microsoft silently patched a bug in its Windows 10 operating system with the October 2018 update version 1809 that allowed Microsoft Store apps with extensive file system permission to access all files on users' computers without their consent. With Windows 10, Microsoft introduced a common...

How Microsoft 365 Security integrates with your broader IT ecosystem—part 2

Todays post was coauthored by Debraj Ghosh, Senior Product Marketing Manager, and Diana Kelley, Cybersecurity Field CTO. In part 1 of our blog series, we shared the Microsoft 365 Security strategy for integrating with the broader security community. Today, we cover the services Microsoft 365...

Enable your users to work securely from anywhere, anytime, across all of their devices

This blog is part of a series that responds to common questions we receive from customers about deployment of Microsoft 365 Security solutions. In this series youll find context, answers, and guidance for deployment and driving adoption within your organization. Check out our last blog, Assessing...

Microsoft Intelligent Security Association expands with new members and products

Last April, we introduced theMicrosoft Intelligent Security Associationa group of 19 security technology providers who have integrated their solutions with a select set of Microsoft products to provide customers better protection, detection, and response. Today, we are pleased to announce five ne...