Announcing the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Bounty program

One of Microsoft’s many security investments to protect customers is in the partnerships we build with the external security research community. We are excited to announce the launch of theDynamics 365 Bounty program and welcome researchers to seek out and disclose any high impact vulnerabilities...

April 2019 Security Update Release

Today, we released security updates to provide additional protections against malicious attackers. As a best practice, we encourage customers to turn on automatic updates. More information about this month’s security updates can be found on the Security Update Guide. Tags Security Advisory Securi...

2019 年 3 月のセキュリティ更新プログラム (月例)

2019 年 3 月 13 日 日本時間、マイクロソフトは以下のソフトウェアのセキュリティ更新プログラムを公開しまし...

Vulnerability hunting with Semmle QL, part 1

Previously on this blog, we’ve talked about how MSRC automates the root cause analysis of vulnerabilities reported and found. After doing this, our next step is variant analysis: finding and investigating any variants of the vulnerability. It’s important that we find all such variants and patch...

Announcing the BlueHat v18 Schedule

Where did the summer go? This year the BlueHat Security Conference moved forward in the schedule to late September. Next year it will settle into a steady orbit of early October moving forward. With that change in schedule, it is hard to believe that it is time to reveal the schedule for BlueHat...

Windows Defender System Guard でシステムのセキュリティを強化し整合性を維持する

本記事は、Windows Security のブログ “Hardening the system and maintaining integrity with Windows Defender System Guard” 2017 年 10 月 23 日 米国...

VulnScan – Automated Triage and Root Cause Analysis of Memory Corruption Issues

The Microsoft Security Response Center MSRC receives reports about potential vulnerabilities in our products and it’s the job of our engineering team to assess the severity, impact, and root cause of these issues. In practice, a significant proportion of these reports turn out to be memory...

Extending the Microsoft Office Bounty Program

Microsoft announces the extension of the Microsoft Office Bounty Program through December 31, 2017. This extension is retroactive for any cases submitted during the interim. The engagement we have had with the security community has been great and we are looking to continue that collaboration on...

August 2017 security update release

Today, we released security updates to provide additional protections against malicious attackers. By default, Windows 10 receives these updates automatically, and for customers running previous versions, we recommend they turn on automatic updates as a best practice. More information about this...

セキュリティ更新プログラム ガイド (Security Update Guide) を使ってみよう

※ 2020 年 11 月に、セキュリティ更新プログラム ガイドがリニューアルしています。新しいセキュリティ更新プログ...

SHA-1 Collisions Research

Today, a group of eight researchers from across the security industry released a research report on SHA-1 that demonstrates for the first time, a “hash collision” for the full SHA-1 hash algorithm called “SHAttered”. This is a significant step toward understanding this type of security issue, a...

Out-of-band release for Security Bulletin MS15-078

Today, we released a security bulletin to provide an update for Microsoft Windows. Customers who have automatic updates enabled or apply the update, will be protected. We recommend customers apply the update as soon as possible, following the directions in the security bulletin. More information...

Congratulations to James Forshaw Recipient of Our First $100,000 Bounty for New Mitigation Bypass Techniques!

Congratulations to James Forshaw for coming up with a new exploitation technique to get our first ever $100,000 bounty. A security vulnerability researcher with Context Information Security, James already came in hot with design level bugs he found during the IE11 Preview Bug Bounty, and we’re...

Assessing risk for the July 2013 security updates

Today we released seven security bulletins addressing 34 CVE’s. Six bulletins have a maximum severity rating of Critical, and one has a maximum severity rating of Important. We hope that the table below helps you prioritize the deployment of the updates appropriately for your environment. Bulleti...

Doors Open for New Bounty Programs

As we announced last week, Microsoft is now offering $100,000 bounties for new exploitation techniques that can bypass our latest platform-wide defenses and up to $50,000 bonus bounties for defense ideas. We’re also offering from now until July 26 bounties of up to $11,000 for critical security...

A few more days before EMET 4

On May 8th, we announced that EMET 4 would have been released today, May 28th. Since that day, we had additional feedback and we are working on a few things that are requiring a little bit more time than expected. This considered, we are not releasing EMET 4 today, and we will take a few more day...

Scaling Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)

Introduction Microsoft engineering teams use the Security Development Lifecycle to ensure our products are built in alignment with Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative security principles: Secure by Design, Secure by Default, and Secure Operations. A key component of the Security Development...

Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2023: Elevating Security Together

As the 20th anniversary of Cybersecurity Awareness Month begins, I find myself reflecting on the strides made since its inception. The journey to enhance and improve cybersecurity is ongoing and extends beyond October. It’s not merely a technological challenge; it is fundamentally about people...

Microsoft Response to Layer 7 Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks

Summary Beginning in early June 2023, Microsoft identified surges in traffic against some services that temporarily impacted availability. Microsoft promptly opened an investigation and subsequently began tracking ongoing DDoS activity by the threat actor that Microsoft tracks as Storm-1359. Thes...

Congratulations to the Top MSRC 2023 Q1 Security Researchers!

Congratulations to all the researchers recognized in this quarter’s Microsoft Researcher Recognition Program leaderboard! Thank you to everyone for your hard work and continued partnership to secure customers. The top three researchers of the 2023 Q1 Security Researcher Leaderboard are: Kai Lu...

BlueHat 2023: Connecting the security research community with Microsoft

We’re excited to welcome more than 400 members of the security research community from around the world to Redmond, Washington for BlueHat 2023. Hosted by the Microsoft Security Response Center MSRC, BlueHat is where the security research community, and Microsoft security professionals, come...

Microsoft は、Azure クラウド サービスにおける 4 つの SSRF の脆弱性を解決しました。

本ブログは、Microsoft resolves four SSRF vulnerabilities in Azure cloud services の抄訳版です。最新の情報は原文を参照してください。 概要...

セキュリティ更新プログラムの通知・配信の改善 – 新しい配信方法について

本ブログは、Improvements in Security Update Notifications Delivery – And a New Delivery Method の抄訳版です。最新の情報は原文を参照してく...

1年間のバグ報奨金プログラム レビュー: 報奨金 $13.7M

本ブログは、Microsoft Bug Bounty Programs Year in Review: $13.7M in Rewards の抄訳版です。最新の情報は原文を参照してください。 Microsoft...

Microsoft Office、2022年8月からシンボルを公開

本ブログは、Microsoft Office to publish symbols starting August 2022 の抄訳版です。最新の情報は原文を参照してください。 Microsoft Office が...

Security Update Guide Notification System News: Create your profile now

Sharing information through the Security Update Guide SUG is an important part of our ongoing effort to help customers manage security risks and keep systems protected. In January 2022 we introduced Phase One of a new way for customers to receive email notifications about new Microsoft product...

クラウドサービスにおけるセキュリティ更新のアナトミー

本ブログは、Anatomy of a Cloud-Service Security Update の抄訳版です。最新の情報は原文を参照してください。 世界中のマイク...

Azure Site Recovery の脆弱性を軽減

本ブログは、Microsoft Mitigates Azure Site Recovery Vulnerabilities の抄訳版です。最新の情報は原文を参照してください。 概要 概要 マ...

Researcher Spotlight: Hector Peralta’s Evolution from Popcorn Server to the MSRC Leaderboards

“The bug bounty literally changed my life. Before this, I had nothing.” Coolest thing he purchased : His first vehicle! Best gift to give: Buying his nephew gaming accessories. Favorite Hacking Companion : His two cats. They’re always by his side when he is working late. Origin of his Hacker name...

影響の大きいシナリオにおけるマイクロソフトのバグ報奨金プログラムの拡大

本ブログは、Expanding High Impact Scenario Awards for Microsoft Bug Bounty Programsの抄訳版です。最新の情報は原文を参照し...

マイクロソフトのサポートを装った詐欺にご注意ください

パソコンやタブレットを利用している際に、突然、“ウイルスに感染した” といった内容を示す画面とともに、...

2021 年 12 月のセキュリティ更新プログラム (月例)

2021 年 12 月 14 日（米国時間）に、マイクロソフトは、マイクロソフト製品に影響する脆弱性を修正するために、セ...

Introducing Bounty Awards for Teams Mobile Applications Security Research

We are pleased to announce the addition of Microsoft Teams mobile applications to the Microsoft Applications Bounty Program. Through the expanded program we welcome researchers from across the globe to seek out and disclose any high impact security vulnerabilities they may find in Teams mobile...

Microsoft Bug Bounty Programs Year in Review: $13.7M in Rewards

Security researchers are a vital component of the cybersecurity ecosystem that safeguards every facet of digital life and commerce. The researchers who devote time to uncovering and reporting security issues before adversaries can exploit them have earned our collective respect and gratitude. The...

Updates to the Windows Insider Preview Bounty Program

Partnering with the research community is an important part of Microsoft’s holistic approach to defending against security threats. Bounty programs are one part of this partnership, designed to encourage and reward vulnerability research focused on the highest impact to customer security. The...

Azure Sphere Security Research Challenge Now Open

The Azure Sphere Security Research Challenge is an expansion of Azure Security Lab, announced at Black Hat in August 2019. At that time, a select group of talented researchers was invited to come and do their worst, emulating criminal hackers in a customer-safe cloud environment. This new researc...

Microsoft Identity Bounty Improvements

Microsoft is continually improving our existing bounty programs. Today we’re happy to share the latest updates to the Microsoft Identity Bounty. Originally launched in July 2018, the Microsoft Identity bounty program has helped build a partnership with the security research community to improve t...

Scalable infrastructure for investigations and incident response

Traditional computer forensics and cyber investigations are as relevant in the cloud as they are in on-premise environments, but the methods in which to access and perform such investigations differ. This post will describe some of the challenges of bringing on-premises forensics techniques to th...

Inside the MSRC – Anatomy of a SSIRP incident

This is the second in a series of blog posts that shares how the MSRC responds to elevated threats to customers through the Software and Services Incident Response Plan SSIRP. In ourlast blog post, we looked at the history of the Microsoft Security Response Center and SSIRP, and how Microsoft tak...

June 2019 security update release

Today, we released security updates to provide additional protections against malicious attackers. As a best practice, we encourage customers to turn on automatic updates. More information about this month’s security updates can be found on the Security Update Guide...

Inside the MSRC– The Monthly Security Update Releases

For the second in this series of blog entries we want to look into which vulnerability reports make it into the monthly release cadence. It may help to start with some history. In September 2003 we made a change from a release anytime approach to a mostly predictable, monthly release cadence...

Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection で反射型の DLL 読み込みを検出

本記事は、Windows Security のブログ “Detecting reflective DLL loading with Windows Defender ATP” 2017 年 11 月 13 日 米国時間公開...

Announcing the BlueHat v17 Schedule

September is here! The dash from the close of the call for papers to now has been amazing. We had nearly two hundred submissions spanning the gamut of security topics and presenters. The result is a solid schedule that will challenge and educate all attendees. On behalf of the content advisory...

Announcing the BlueHat v17 Schedule

September is here! The dash from the close of the call for papers to now has been amazing. We had nearly two hundred submissions spanning the gamut of security topics and presenters. The result is a solid schedule that will challenge and educate all attendees. On behalf of the content advisory...

Eternal Synergy Exploit Analysis

Introduction Introduction Recently we announced a series of blog posts dissecting the exploits released by the ShadowBrokers in April 2017; specifically some of the less explored exploits. This week we are going to take a look at Eternal Synergy, an SMBv1 authenticated exploit. This one is...

BlueHat v17 Call for Papers Opens

Calling security professionals and enthusiasts throughout the world. Microsoft is pleased to open the Call for Papers for our BlueHat v17 Security Conference. Potential speakers have from June 1st through August 18th to submit abstract proposals for this unique opportunity. As in past events, we...

Taking your feedback on the Security Update Guide

The Security Update Guide has been in public preview since November 2016. This month marked our first release when security update information was published entirely in the new format. Over the last few months, customers and partners have provided a lot of feedback on the direction and...

Windows Defender ATP でクロスプロセス インジェクションを発見する

本記事は、Microsoft Malware Protection Center のブログ “Uncovering cross-process injection with Windows Defender ATP” 2017 年 3 月 8 日 米国時...

Adobe Flash Player security vulnerability release

Today, we released an Adobe Flash Player security update to provide additional protections against malicious attackers. As a best practice, we encourage customers to turn on automatic updates. More information about these updates can be found on the Security Update Guide. MSRC team...

Out-of-band release for Security Bulletin MS14-068

On Tuesday, November 18, 2014, at approximately 10 a.m. PST, we will release an out-of-band security update to address a vulnerability in Windows. We strongly encourage customers to apply this update as soon as possible, following the directions in the security bulletin. More information about th...