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...

Celebrating ten years of the Microsoft Bug Bounty program and more than $60M awarded

This year marks the tenth anniversary of the Microsoft Bug Bounty Program, an essential part of our proactive strategy to protect customers from security threats. Since its inception in 2013, Microsoft has awarded more than $60 million to thousands of security researchers from 70 countries. These...

Microsoft Bug Bounty Program Year in Review: $13.8M in Rewards

We are thrilled to share the results of our collaboration with over 345 security researchers from +45 countries around the world in the past 12 months. Together, we have discovered and fixed more than a thousand potential security issues before they impacted our customers. In recognition of this...

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...

Best practices regarding Azure Storage Keys, Azure Functions, and Azure Role Based Access

Summary Azure provides developers and security operations staff a wide array of configurable security options to meet organizational needs. Throughout the software development lifecycle, it is important for customers to understand the shared responsibility model, as well as be familiar with vario...

サイバーセキュリティ月間 2023

政府では、サイバーセキュリティに関する普及啓発強化のため、2 月 1 日から 3 月 18 日までを 「サイバーセキュ...

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ガイドの改善 – ホットパッチ更新プログラムの記載

本ブログは、Security Update Guide Improvement – Representing Hotpatch Updatesの抄訳版です。最新の情報は原文を参照してくださ...

2022 年 8 月のセキュリティ更新プログラム (月例)

2022 年 8 月 9 日（米国時間）、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、セキ...

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...

All Hands-on Deck: A Whole-of-Society Approach for Cybersecurity

The morning of June 9th, I was driving over the Golden Gate Bridge into San Francisco with my family. While crossing the bridge my children shared some facts about this modern engineering marvel. Each day, approx. 100,000 vehicles travel over the bridge deck, which weighs a staggering 150,000 ton...

2022 年 7 月のセキュリティ更新プログラム (月例)

2022 年 7 月 12 日（米国時間）、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、セキ...

Microsoft Mitigates Azure Site Recovery Vulnerabilities

Summary Summary Microsoft recently mitigated a set of vulnerabilities in Azure Site Recovery ASR and released fixes today, July 12, as part of our regular Update Tuesday cycle. These vulnerabilities affect all ASR on-premises customers using a VMware/Physical to Azure scenario and are fixed in th...

Service Fabric におけるLinux 上のコンテナ化されたワークロードからの特権昇格について

本ブログは、 Service Fabric Privilege Escalation from Containerized Workloads on Linux の抄訳版です。最新の情報は原文を参照してください。 協調的な脆弱性の公開...

New Research Paper: Pre-hijacking Attacks on Web User Accounts

In 2020, MSRC awarded two Identity Project Research Grants to support external researchers working to further strengthen the security of identity protocols and systems. Today we are pleased to release the results of the first of these projects. This research, led by independent security researche...

Disclosure of Vulnerability in Azure Automation Managed Identity Tokens

On December 10, 2021, Microsoft mitigated a vulnerability in the Azure Automation service. Azure Automation accounts that used Managed Identitiestokens for authorization and an Azure Sandbox for job runtime and execution were exposed. Microsoft has not detected evidence of misuse of tokens...

ウクライナにおけるサイバー脅威アクティビティ: 分析とリソース

本ブログは、Cyber threat activity in Ukraine: analysis and resources – Microsoft Security Response Center の抄訳版です。最新の情報は原文を参照してください。 2022 年...

2022 年 1 月のセキュリティ更新プログラム (月例)

2022 年 1 月 11 日（米国時間）、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、セキ...

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...

アプリケーションおよびサービス プリンシパル API での Azure Active Directory (AD) keyCredential プロパティの情報漏えいに関するガイダンス

本ブログは、“Guidance for Azure Active Directory AD keyCredential property Information Disclosure in Application and Service Principal APIs” の抄訳版です。最新の情報は、原本...

BlueHat is Back!

After a short hiatus, BlueHat is coming back with a vengeance! And we’ve got big plans for the entire researcher community. But first, I must apologize. It’s been a while since you have heard from us. We didn’t have BlueHat 2020 or 2021, and we know that was disappointing. It was partly due to th...

Microsoft のバグハンティング：脆弱性発見者へのインタビューとMSRCについて ～ CODE BLUE Open Talkより

より安全で安心な製品やサービスを提供するために、マイクロソフトでは、マイクロソフトの製品やサービスに...

Congratulations to the MSRC 2021 Most Valuable Security Researchers!

The MSRC Researcher Recognition Program offers public thanks and acknowledgement to the researchers who help protect customers through discovering and sharing security vulnerabilities under Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure. Today, we are excited to recognize this year’s Most Valuable Security...

Security Update Validation Program (SUVP) に関するよくあるお問い合わせ

本記事は「Security Update Validation Program: the early bird tests the worm」の日本語抄訳です。 Security Update Validation Program SUVP、セキュリテ...

2021 年 4 月のセキュリティ更新プログラム (月例)

2021 年 4 月 14 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...

Introducing Bounty Awards for Teams Desktop Client Security Research

Partnering with the security research community is an important part of Microsoft’s holistic approach to defending against security threats. As much of the world has shifted to working from home in the last year, Microsoft Teams has enabled people to stay connected, organized, and collaborate...

オンプレミス Exchange Server の脆弱性の調査や修復に対応する方向けのガイダンス

「Guidance for responders: Investigating and remediating on-premises Exchange Server vulnerabilities」の日本語抄訳です。 最近一般に公開さ...

A new experience for reporting copyright or trademark infringement on Microsoft Services

The Notice of Copyright or Trademark Infringement Portal has helped protect Microsofts users and customers from intellectual property infringement across online services like Microsoft Azure, Office, Outlook, Skype, Stream, Microsoft News, Sway, Hotmail, NuGet, and Yammer. Microsofts response to...

New and improved Security Update Guide!

We’re excited to announce a significant update to the Security Update Guide, our one-stop site for information about all security updates provided by Microsoft. This new version will provide a more intuitive user experience to help protect our customers regardless of what Microsoft products or...

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...

2020 年 6 月のセキュリティ更新プログラム (月例)

2020 年 6 月 10 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...

Congratulating Our Top 2020 Q1 Security Researchers!

Following the second Security Researcher Quarterly Leaderboard and the 2020 MSRC Most Valuable Security Researchers criteria we published in February 2020, we are excited to announce the 2020 First Quarter Q1 Security Researcher Leaderboard, listing our top contributing researchers for the last...

[サイバーセキュリティ月間2020] マイクロソフトのセキュリティに関する情報発信サイトのまとめ

わたしたちセキュリティレスポンスチームは、日本政府が定める「サイバーセキュリティ月間」に賛同し、本ブ...

[サイバーセキュリティ月間2020] 製品のサポートが終了したらどうなるの？

2020 年 1 月に、広く利用されてきた Windows 7, Windows Server 2008/2008R2 のサポートが終了して既に数か月が過ぎました。サポートが終了す...

February 2020 security updates are available

We have released the February 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 in the Security Update Guide...

BlueHat Seattle videos are online!

Were you unable to attend BlueHat Seattle, or wanted to see a session again? We have good news. If you have been waiting for the videos from BlueHat Seattle last month, the wait is over. All videos which the presenter authorized to be recorded are now online and available to anyone...

2019 年 11 月のセキュリティ更新プログラム (月例)

2019 年 11 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...

Introducing the ElectionGuard Bounty program

Today we are launching the ElectionGuard Bounty program. In May 2019, we announced the release of ElectionGuard, a free open-source SDK to make voting more secure, transparent, and accessible. ElectionGuard enables end-to-end verification of elections, open results to third-party organizations fo...

Acquiring a VHD to Investigate

In a previous post we described some of the differences between on-premises/physical forensics and cyber investigations and those performed in the cloud, and how this can make cloud forensics challenging. That blog post described a method of creating and maintaining a VM image which can be...

Announcing the Microsoft Edge Insider Bounty

This week, we released the first Beta preview of the next version of Microsoft Edge. Alongside this, Microsoft is excited to announce the launch of the Microsoft Edge Insider Bounty Program. We welcome researchers to seek out and disclose any high impact vulnerabilities they may find in the next...

Azure Security Lab: a new space for Azure research and collaboration

Azure is exceptionally secure. To help keep it that way, we are doubling the top bounty reward for Azure vulnerabilities to $40,000. But we aren’t stopping there. To make it easier for security researchers to confidently and aggressively test Azure, we are inviting a select group of talented...

Why Rust for safe systems programming

In this series, we have explored the need for proactive measures to eliminate a class of vulnerabilities and walked through some examples of memory safety issues we’ve found in Microsoft code that could have been avoided with a different language. Now we’ll peek at why we think that Rust represen...

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...

Vulnerability hunting with Semmle QL, part 2

The first part of this series introduced Semmle QL, and how the Microsoft Security Response Center MSRC are using it to investigate variants of vulnerabilities reported to us. This post discusses an example of how we’ve been using it proactively, covering a security audit of an Azure firmware...

BlueHat v18 Content Now Available

Last month we wrapped up another great BlueHat event. As an organizer, it is great to hear that the content is so strong that we have participants have to make hard choices on what to attend. BlueHat is about the community we build and the experiences we share. To further support that we are maki...

更新プログラムが正しくインストールされたかを確認する方法 - Windows 7 の場合

本ブログ記事は初級レベルから中級レベルのコンピューター ユーザーを対象にしています。 Windows 10 をお使いのお客...

更新プログラムが正しくインストールされたかを確認する方法 – Windows 10 の場合

本ブログ記事は初級レベルから中級レベルのコンピューター ユーザーを対象にしています。 Windows 8.1 をお使いのお客...

セキュリティ更新プログラム リリース スケジュール (2018 年)

概要 概要 セキュリティ更新プログラムは通常、米国日付の毎月第 2 火曜日に公開します。日本では、時差の関係...

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...

Microsoft’s Top 100 Security Researchers – Black Hat 2018 Edition

This morning we are excited to unveil the security researcher leaderboard at the Black Hat Security Conference. This list recognizes the top security researchers who have contributed research to the Microsoft products and services. If you are curious on how we build the list, check out our blog...