Microsoft Announces Top Three Contributing Partners in the Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP)

Today Microsoft announced the MAPP program Top Vulnerability Contributors, Top Threat Indicator Submitters, and Top Zero-Day Reporting for the period of July 1, 2018 – June 30, 2019. The Microsoft Active Protections Program provides security and protection to customers through cooperation and...

Microsoft Announces Top Three Contributing Partners in the Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP)

Today Microsoft announced the MAPP program Top Vulnerability Contributors, Top Threat Indicator Submitters, and Top Zero-Day Reporting for the period of July 1, 2018 – June 30, 2019. The Microsoft Active Protections Program provides security and protection to customers through cooperation and...

Microsoft Launches a New Recognition Program for MAPP Partners

There are many dedicated people and organizations who contribute to the protection and security of our common customers. For years, Microsoft has recognized security researchers for helping protect the ecosystem. Now, we’re announcing the launch of a new program to better recognize and thank...

Microsoft Launches a New Recognition Program for MAPP Partners

There are many dedicated people and organizations who contribute to the protection and security of our common customers. For years, Microsoft has recognized security researchers for helping protect the ecosystem. Now, we’re announcing the launch of a new program to better recognize and thank...

Microsoft Launches a New Recognition Program for MAPP Partners

There are many dedicated people and organizations who contribute to the protection and security of our common customers. For years, Microsoft has recognized security researchers for helping protect the ecosystem. Now, we’re announcing the launch of a new program to better recognize and thank...

Longboard Mapp - Customized SSL, Exported ContentProvider, Redefined SSL Common Names verifier vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Longboard Mapp published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

Microsoft Interflow Information-Sharing Platform Preview Open

Much like the Year of PKI that has never come to be, information sharing has been one of security’s more infamous non-starters. While successful in heavily siloed environments such as financial services, enterprises industry-wide are hesitant to share threat and security data for fear of losing a...

Microsoft Releases Security Advisory 2914486

Today we released Security Advisory 2914486 regarding a local elevation of privilege EoP issue that affects customers using Microsoft Windows XP and Server 2003. Windows Vista and later are not affected by this local EoP issue. A member of the Microsoft Active Protections Program MAPP found this...

Microsoft Expands MAPP Program to Incident Response Teams

Microsoft is expanding its MAPP program that shares attack and protection information with other security vendors and will now be sharing some data with incident responders, as well. The new system will enable organizations such as CERTs and internal IR teams to exchange information on specific...

Announcing the 2013 MSRC Progress Report featuring MAPP expansions

Over the years, our customers have come to expect a certain regularity and transparency in both our security updates and the guidance that goes with them. One regular piece of communication about our work is a yearly progress report, which provides a look into the program updates and bulletin...

Microsoft Names Chinese Firm Hangzhou DPTech as Source of RDP Code Leak

Two months after exploit code the Microsoft RDP MS12-020 vulnerability made its way into the open before the company released a patch, Microsoft has put the blame for the leak on a Chinese security company, Hangzhou DPTech Technologies. Microsoft said Thursday that it has removed the company from...

Microsoft Hacking Code leaked from security info-sharing program

Microsoft Hacking Code leaked from security info-sharing program Microsoft on Friday confirmed that sample attack code created by the company had likely leaked to hackers from a program it runs with antivirus vendors. Code that was submitted to Microsoft last year to demonstrate a serious exploit...

MS12-020 RDP Code Leak Mystery Deepens As Microsoft Remains Silent

Microsoft has a big, ugly problem on its hands. The company is caught in the middle of what’s rapidly become a major controversy centered on the leak of proof-of-concept exploit code for the MS12-020 RDP vulnerability. Many researchers, including the one who first discovered the bug and reported ...

Stuxnet Fallout: Microsoft Patches Critical Print Spooler Hole

Microsoft patched a zero day vulnerability in Windows Print Spooler that was used by Stuxnet and says that cross vendor cooperation may be the silver lining to the Stuxnet attack. Microsoft on Tuesday announced a software update to close a critical hole in a common service used by WIndows XP...

Adobe to Share Vulnerability Data with Security Vendors

LAS VEGAS — Adobe’s push to beef up its security posture took another leap forward here with the announcement of plans to start sharing details on software vulnerabilities with security vendors ahead of time to help reduce the window of exposure to hacker attacks. In partnership with Microsoft,...

A Good Year for Security Collaboration

It seems like just yesterday when I was at Black Hat. Now as I get ready to fly to Las Vegas again, I look forward to seeing a lot of security researchers, hearing their latest exploits and how they fared over the last 352 days. At the same time, it is a great opportunity to look back at the past...