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Improve security with a Zero Trust access model
Zero Trust is a security model that I believe can begin to turn the tide in the cybersecurity battles. Traditional perimeter-based network security has proved insufficient because it assumes that if a user is inside the corporate perimeter, they can be trusted. We’ve learned that this isn't true...
Traditional perimeter-based network defense is obsolete—transform to a Zero Trust model
Digital transformation has made the traditional perimeter-based network defense obsolete. Your employees and partners expect to be able to collaborate and access organizational resources from anywhere, on virtually any device, without impacting their productivity. Customers expect personalized...
An intern's experience with Rust
Over the course of my internship at the Microsoft Security Response Center MSRC, I worked on the safe systems programming languages SSPL team to promote safer languages for systems programming where runtime overhead is important, as outlined in this blog. My job was to port a security critical...
Microsoft Re-Releases Security Updates
Microsoft has re-released security updates to address a vulnerability in Microsoft software. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to take control of an affected system. Updates are now available automatically via Windows Update or Windows Server Update Services. The Cybersecurity an...
Microsoft Blacklists Dozens of New File Extensions in Outlook
Microsoft is banning almost 40 new types of file extensions on its Outlook email platform. The aim is to protect email users from what it deems “at-risk” file attachments, which are typically sent with malicious scripts or executables. The move will prevent users from downloading email attachment...
Policy Compliance Library Updates, July 2019
Qualys' library of built-in policies makes it easy to comply with the security standards and regulations that are most commonly used and adhered to. Qualys provides a wide range of policies, including many that have been certified by CIS as well as the ones based on security guidelines from OS an...
September 10, 2019-KB4514354 Cumulative Update for .NET Framework 4.8 for Windows 10 Version 1607
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September 10, 2019-KB4514359 Cumulative Update for .NET Framework 3.5 and 4.8 for Windows 10 version 1903 and Windows 10 version 1909
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September 10, 2019-KB4514357 Cumulative Update for .NET Framework 4.8 for Windows 10 Version 1803
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Description of the security update for SharePoint Foundation 2013: September 10, 2019
Description of the security update for SharePoint Foundation 2013: September 10, 2019 Summary This security update resolves an elevation of privilege vulnerability that exists in Microsoft SharePoint. To learn more about the vulnerability, see Microsoft Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures...
Description of the security update for Office 2010: September 10, 2019
Description of the security update for Office 2010: September 10, 2019 Summary This security update resolves a security feature bypass vulnerability that exists when Microsoft Office incorrectly handles input. To learn more about the vulnerability, see Microsoft Common Vulnerabilities and Exposur...
CVE-2019-1125
An information disclosure vulnerability exists when certain central processing units CPU speculatively access memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could read privileged data across trust boundaries. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would have to log on to an...
Energy Sector Phish Swims Past Microsoft Email Security via Google Drive
A targeted spearphishing campaign has hit an organization in the energy sector – after using a savvy trick to get around the company’s Microsoft email security stack. According to Aaron Riley, a researcher from Cofense, the campaign impersonated the CEO of the targeted company, sending email via...
Microsoft Releases Security Updates to Address Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities
Microsoft has released security updates to address two remote code execution vulnerabilities, CVE-2019-1181 and CVE-2019-1182, in the following operating systems: Windows 7 SP1 Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Windows Server 2012 Windows 8.1 Windows Server 2012 R2 Windows 10 Windows Server 2016 Windows...
Meet the MSRC at Black Hat 2019
We’re getting close to Black Hat, and we hope to see you there. Here’s where you can find members of the Microsoft Security Response Center if you’d like to say hello, ask a question about a report you made, discuss a recent blog article, or just show us pictures of your dog. Wednesday, August 7 ...
A proactive approach to more secure code
What if we could eliminate an entire class of vulnerabilities before they ever happened? Since 2004, the Microsoft Security Response Centre MSRC has triaged every reported Microsoft security vulnerability. From all that triage one astonishing fact sticks out: as Matt Miller discussed in his 2019...
Microsoft Releases Security Updates for PowerShell Core
Microsoft has released updates to address a vulnerability in PowerShell Core versions 6.1 and 6.2. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to take control of an affected system. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA encourages users and administrators to review the...
July 9, 2019 — KB4506988 Cumulative Update for .NET Framework 4.8 for Windows 10, version 1709
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