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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...
Attention Bounty Hunters – The Ramp Up to Black Hat
We’re three weeks into our new world of bounties for Microsoft products now, and as the clock ticks down on one program, we’re prepping for some live excitement with one of the others. First, the Internet Explorer 11 Preview Bounty is entering its final 10 days; the bounty period for that program...
Filling A Gap In the Vulnerability Market – First Bounty Notification
When Microsoft decided to offer not one but three new bounties, paying outside researchers directly for security research on some of our latest products, we put a lot of thought into developing those bounty programs. We developed a customized set of programs designed to create a win-win between t...
Security Update Guide Improvement – Representing Hotpatch Updates
Today we are updating the way Microsoft Security Update Guide SUG represents the Windows Hotpatch feature to make it easier for users to identify the hotpatch and security updates. Hotpatching was introduced a year ago as a new way to install updates on supported Windows Server Azure Edition...
Reflecting on Cybersecurity Awareness Month: At its Core, Cybersecurity is all about People
As Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2022 comes to a close, I’m grateful for the impact it has had in bringing cybersecurity to the forefront since it began in 2004. Though the month may be over, our work in cybersecurity is never done. Often, we think about cybersecurity as a complex technology...
Azure Synapse Spark で修正された脆弱性について
本ブログは、Vulnerability Fixed in Azure Synapse Spark の抄訳版です。最新の情報は原文を参照してください。 概...
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...
Expanding the Microsoft Researcher Recognition Program
The Microsoft Researcher Recognition Program offers public thanks and recognition to security researchers who help protect our customers through discovering and sharing security vulnerabilities under Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure. Today, we are expanding the program to recognize more...
Expanding the Microsoft Researcher Recognition Program
The Microsoft Researcher Recognition Program offers public thanks and recognition to security researchers who help protect our customers through discovering and sharing security vulnerabilities under Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure. Today, we are expanding the program to recognize more...
Congratulations to the Top MSRC 2021 Q3 Security Researchers!
Congratulations to all the researchers recognized in this quarter’s MSRC Researcher Recognition Program leaderboard! Thank you to everyone for your hard work and continued partnership to secure customers. The top three researchers of the 2021 Q3 Security Researcher Leaderboard are: BugHunter010 8...
2021 年 10 月のセキュリティ更新プログラム (月例)
2021 年 10 月 13 日 日本時間、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 MSRC 最優秀セキュリティ研究者の表彰
本記事は「Congratulations to the MSRC 2021 Most Valuable Security Researchers!」の日本語抄訳です。 MSRC...
Microsoft Bug Bounty Programs Year in Review: $13.6M in Rewards
Partnering with the security research community is an important part of Microsoft’s holistic approach to defending against security threats. Bug bounty programs are one part of this partnership. By discovering and reporting vulnerabilities to Microsoft through Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure...
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...
On-Premises Exchange Server Vulnerabilities Resource Center - updated March 25, 2021
On March 2nd, we released several security updates for Microsoft Exchange Server to address vulnerabilities that are being used in ongoing attacks. Due to the critical nature of these vulnerabilities, we recommend that customers protect their organizations by applying the patches immediately to...
Microsoft Internal Solorigate Investigation Update
As we said in our recent blog, we believe the Solorigate incident is an opportunity to work together in important ways, to share information, strengthen defenses and respond to attacks. Like other SolarWinds customers, we have been actively looking for indicators of the Solorigate actor and want ...
Security Analysis of CHERI ISA
Is it possible to get to a state where memory safety issues would be deterministically mitigated? Our quest to mitigate memory corruption vulnerabilities led us to examine CHERI Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions, which provides memory protection features against many exploited...
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...
What to Expect When Reporting Vulnerabilities to Microsoft
At the Microsoft Security Response Center’s MSRC, our primary mission is to help protect our customers. One of the ways we do this is by working with security researchers to discover security vulnerabilities in our services and products, and then making sure those that pose a threat to customers...
Top MSRC 2020 Q2 Security Researchers Announced – Congratulations!
We are excited to announce the top contributing researchers for the 2020 Second Quarter Q2! Congratulations to all the researchers who continue to rock the leaderboard, and a big thank you to everyone for your contribution to securing our customers and the ecosystem. The top three researchers of...
Top MSRC 2020 Q2 Security Researchers Announced – Congratulations!
We are excited to announce the top contributing researchers for the 2020 Second Quarter Q2! Congratulations to all the researchers who continue to rock the leaderboard, and a big thank you to everyone for your contribution to securing our customers and the ecosystem. The top three researchers of...
Solving Uninitialized Kernel Pool Memory on Windows
This blog post outlines the work that Microsoft is doing to eliminate uninitialized kernel pool memory vulnerabilities from Windows and why we’re on this path. For a background on why uninitialized memory matters and what options have been used in the past to tackle this issue, please see our...
Solving Uninitialized Kernel Pool Memory on Windows
This blog post outlines the work that Microsoft is doing to eliminate uninitialized kernel pool memory vulnerabilities from Windows and why we’re on this path. For a background on why uninitialized memory matters and what options have been used in the past to tackle this issue, please see our...
March 2020 security updates are available
We have released the March 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...
[サイバーセキュリティ月間2020] マイクロソフト セキュリティパッチのきほん④
マイクロソフトでは、毎月第二火曜日を月例のセキュリティ更新日とし、さまざまな製品の脆弱性情報を公開し...
[サイバーセキュリティ月間2020] マイクロソフト セキュリティパッチのきほん②
※ 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...
[サイバーセキュリティ月間2020] マイクロソフト セキュリティパッチのきほん①
マイクロソフト製品に存在するセキュリティの脆弱性に関しては、脆弱性情報を公開しセキュリティ更新プログ...
カスタマー サポート データベースのアクセス構成の誤りについて
本記事は、Microsoft Security Response Center ブログ “Access Misconfiguration for Customer Support Database” 2020 年 1 月 22 日 米国時間...
Announcing the Microsoft Identity Research Project Grant
We are excited to announce the Microsoft Identity Research Project Grant a new opportunity in partnership with the security community to help protect Microsoft customers. This project grant awards up to $75,000 USD for approved research proposals that improve the security of the Microsoft Identit...
December 2019 security updates are available
We have released the December 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. As a reminder,...
December 2019 security updates are available
We have released the December 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. As a reminder,...
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...
Announcing the Security Researcher Quarterly Leaderboard
Right before Black Hat USA 2019, we announced our new researcher recognition program, and at Black Hat we announced the top researchers from the previous twelve months. Since it’s easier to track your progress with regular updates than with just an annual report, we are excited to...
Designing a COM library for Rust
I interned with Microsoft as a Software Engineering Intern in the MSRC UK team in Cheltenham this past summer. I worked in the Safe Systems Programming Language SSPL group, which explores safe programming languages as a proactive measure against memory-safety related vulnerabilities. This blog po...
[AD管理者向け] 2020 年 LDAP 署名と LDAP チャネルバインディングが有効化。確認を！
こんにちは、セキュリティ レスポンスチームの垣内ゆりかです。 2019 年 8 月に公開したセキュリティ アドバイザリ...
September 2019 Security Updates
We have released the September 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. As a reminder,...
2019 年 9 月のセキュリティ更新プログラム (月例)
2019 年 9 月 11 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...
August 2019 Security Updates
We have released the August 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. As a reminder, Windo...
Announcing 2019 MSRC Most Valuable Security Researchers
Earlier today we announced MSRC’s 2018-2019 Most Valuable Security Researchers at Black Hat. The following 75 researchers hail from all corners of the world and possess varied experience and skills, yet all of them have contributed to securing the Microsoft’s customers and the broader ecosystem...
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...
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...
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...
2019 年 5 月のセキュリティ更新プログラム (月例)
2019 年 5 月 15 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...
Microsoft Bounty Program Updates: Faster bounty review, faster payments, and higher rewards
In 2018 The Microsoft Bounty Program awarded over $2,000,000 to encourage and reward external security research in key technologies to protect our customers. Building on that success, we are excited to announce a number of improvements in our bounty programs to better serve the security research...
Local privilege escalation via the Windows I/O Manager: a variant finding collaboration
The Microsoft Security Response Center MSRC investigates all reports of security vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft products and services to help make our customers and the global online community more secure. We appreciate the excellent vulnerability research reported to us regularly from the...
Call for Papers | Microsoft BlueHat Shanghai 2019
The Microsoft Security Response Center MSRC recently announced our first BlueHat security conference in Shanghai which will take place on May 29-30, 2019. After 15 years of BlueHat events in Redmond, Washington and Israel, we are thrilled to expand to a new location. We work with many talented...
セキュリティ インテリジェンス レポート (SIR) 第 24 版公開
2019 年 2 月 28 日 米国時間、マイクロソフトは「マイクロソフト セキュリティ インテリジェンス レポート SIR 第 24...
Fuzzing para-virtualized devices in Hyper-V
Introduction Introduction Hyper-V is the backbone of Azure, running on its Hosts to provide efficient and fair sharing of resources, but also isolation. That’s why we, in the vulnerability research team for Windows, have been working in the background for years now helping secure Hyper-V. And why...
First Steps in Hyper-V Research
Microsoft has put a lot of effort in Hyper-V security. Hyper-V, and the whole virtualization stack, runs at the core of many of our products: cloud computing, Windows Defender Application Guard, and technology built on top of Virtualization Based Security VBS. Because Hyper-V is critical to so mu...
First Steps in Hyper-V Research
Microsoft has put a lot of effort in Hyper-V security. Hyper-V, and the whole virtualization stack, runs at the core of many of our products: cloud computing, Windows Defender Application Guard, and technology built on top of Virtualization Based Security VBS. Because Hyper-V is critical to so mu...