One-Click Microsoft Exchange On-Premises Mitigation Tool - March 2021

We have been actively working with customers through our customer support teams, third-party hosters, and partner network to help them secure their environments and respond to associated threats from the recent Exchange Server on-premises attacks. Based on these engagements we realized that there...

サイバーセキュリティ月間 2021

今年もサイバーセキュリティ月間 2 月 1 日～ 3 月 18 日 が始まりました。サイバーセキュリティ月間とは、内閣...

New and Improved Report Abuse Portal and API!

The Report Abuse CERT Portal and Report Abuse API have played a significant role in MSRC’s response to suspected cyberattacks, privacy issues, and abuse originating from Microsoft Online Services. With the contributions from our wonderful community of reporters, we continue to gain insightful...

Top MSRC 2020 Q4 Security Researchers – Congratulations!

We’re excited to announce the top contributing researchers for the 2020 Fourth Quarter Q4! Congratulations to all of the researchers who made this quarter’s leaderboard and a huge thank you to everyone who continues to help secure our customers and the ecosystem. The top three researchers of the...

Security Update Guide: Let's keep the conversation going

Hi Folks, We want to continue to highlight changes we’ve made to our Security Update Guide. We have received a lot of feedback, much of which has been very positive. We acknowledge there have been some stability problems and we are actively working through reports of older browsers not being able...

Announcing the Top MSRC 2020 Q3 Security Researchers

Following the MSRC’s 2020 Most Valuable Security Researchers announced during this year’s Black Hat, we’re excited to announce the top contributing researchers for the 2020 Third Quarter Q3! The top three researchers of the 2020 Q3...

2020 年 8 月のセキュリティ更新プログラム (月例)

2020 年 8 月 12 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...

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...

IE の累積的な更新プログラムも確実に適用を!

企業内でご利用の端末に更新プログラムを適用される際、特に Windows Server 2012 R2 などのサーバー OS 環境で Internet Explorer IE の累積的...

セキュリティエンドポイント脅威レポート 2019 で脅威の動向と対策を知る

2020 年 6 月 16 日、マイクロソフトは、セキュリティエンドポイント脅威レポート 2019 Security Endpoint Threat Report を発表し、2019 年...

Machine Learning Security Evasion Competition 2020 Invites Researchers to Defend and Attack

Machine learning ML is an increasingly valuable tool in cyber security as adversaries continually evolve their tactics and techniques to evade detection. As machine learning has advanced and sophisticated ML models have been developed to assist security professionals in protecting the cloud,...

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...

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...

2020 年 3 月のセキュリティ更新プログラム (月例)

2020 年 3 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...

Calling for security research in Azure Sphere, now generally available

Today, Microsoft released Azure Sphere into General Availability GA. Azure Sphere’s mission is to empower every organization on the planet to connect and create secured and trustworthy IoT devices. Azure Sphere is an end-to-end solution for securely connecting existing equipment and for creating...

Recognizing Security Researchers in 2020

Is it too early to talk about the 2020 MSRC Most Valuable Security Researchers? Five months from now, at the end of June, the program period closes for researchers to be considered for inclusion in the Most Valuable Researchers list. The top researcher list will be revealed at Black Hat North...

Announcing the Xbox Bounty program

We are pleased to announce the launch of the Xbox Bounty program today. The Xbox bounty program invites gamers, security researchers, and technologists around the world to help identify security vulnerabilities in the Xbox network and services, and share them with the Microsoft Xbox team through...

Announcing MSRC 2019 Q4 Security Researcher Leaderboard

Following the first Security Researcher Quarterly Leaderboard we published in October 2019, we are excited to announce the MSRC Q4 2019 Security Researcher Leaderboard, which shows the top contributing researchers for the last quarter. In each quarterly leaderboard, we recognize the security...

[IT管理者向け] 脆弱性の悪用のしやすさを知る～悪用可能性指標と緩和策

マイクロソフトでは毎月第二火曜日 米国時間 に定例のセキュリティ更新プログラムを公開し、修正した脆弱...

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,...

[あらためて確認を]　RDP の脆弱性に対するセキュリティ更新プログラムの適用を推奨

2019 年、マイクロソフトはリモートデスクトッププロトコル Remote Desktop Protocol: RDP、 Terminal Services における複数の脆弱性を修正し...

Time for day 2 of briefings at BlueHat Seattle!

We hope you enjoyed the first day of our BlueHat briefings and the Bytes of BlueHat reception in our glamping tent complete with toasted marshmallows. Yesterday, we learned a lot about how XboxOne hardware security has advanced the state of hardware security elsewhere, we heard some surprising...

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...

October 2019 security updates are available!

We have released the October 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,...

Calling all breakers & builders: BlueHat Seattle registration is open!

Exciting changes are coming to BlueHat Seattle 2019! If you’d like to attend this premier security conference, we have good news for you: registration for BlueHat Seattle is now open and we hope you register. Wait, isn't BlueHat invitation-only? It is…but if we haven’t sent you an invitation, we...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

July 2019 Security Update Release

We have released the July 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...

Join Microsoft Security Response at the Product Security Operations forum at LocoMocoSec!

The MSRC is more than managing vulnerability reports, publishing Microsoft security updates, and defending the cloud. The MSRC is passionate about helping everyone improve internal engineering practices and supporting the defender community, and are excited to partner with Blackberry to host a...

March 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...

Practical advice for earning higher Microsoft bounty awards

This year at the Nullcon International Security Conference I shared practical advice for how security researchers can maximize the impact of their security vulnerability submissions and earn higher bounty awards under the Microsoft Bounty Program. For those who couldn’t be there, I had two core...

BlueHat Shanghai 2019 Call for Papers is Now Open!

We know security experts with diverse skills and experiences are found around the world. This year, the BlueHat Security Conference is coming to Shanghai! BlueHat Shanghai 2019 will take place on May 29-30 at W Shanghai - The Bund. We want to provide a venue for security researchers to come...

January 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...

December 2018 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...

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 8.1 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...

2018 年 10 月のセキュリティ更新プログラム (月例)

2018 年 10 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...

[セキュリティ基本対策 5 か条] 第 3 条 アカウントやパスワードを管理する

注: この内容は一般の方を対象とした記述にしています。 今日はセキュリティ基本対策 5 か条の第 3 条「アカウ...

Behind BlueHat: The Art

We are just one day away from the opening of BlueHat v18 and excitement is building. One of the questions that I have gotten more frequently the past couple years is about the artwork we use for BlueHat. So yes there is a theme. 😊 Starting in 2014, we introduced the Top Hat logo which the communi...

Behind BlueHat: The Art

We are just one day away from the opening of BlueHat v18 and excitement is building. One of the questions that I have gotten more frequently the past couple years is about the artwork we use for BlueHat. So yes there is a theme. 😊 Starting in 2014, we introduced the Top Hat logo which the communi...

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...

August 2018 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. MSRC team...

The Making of the Top 100 Researcher List

At Black Hat USA each year, we unveil the Top 100 Security Researcher list to reflect the amazing engagement we get from the community. During this period, we had several thousand researchers engage with the Microsoft Security Response Center MSRC. We appreciate all the partnership and coordinati...

July 2018 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...

Draft of Microsoft Security Servicing Commitments for Windows

Updated September 10, 2018 The Servicing Criteria for Windows has transitioned to an official document and can be found at the link below. Microsoft thanks the members of the research community who provided feedback on the draft copy. Microsoft Security Servicing Criteria for Windows...

Petya や WannaCrypt などのラピッド サイバー攻撃を緩和する方法

本記事は、Microsoft Secure ブログ “How to mitigate rapid cyberattacks such as Petya and WannaCrypt” 2018 年 2 月 21 日 米国時...

アップグレードの重要性: 2017 年のランサムウェア拡散時に高い効果を証明した Windows 10 の次世代型セキュリティ

本記事は、Microsoft Secure ブログ “A worthy upgrade: Next-gen security on Windows 10 proves resilient against ransomware outbreaks in 2017” 2018 年 1 月 10 日 米国時間公開...

Windows Defender Application Control の紹介

本記事は、Windows Security のブログ “Introducing Windows Defender Application Control” 2017 年 10 月 23 日 米国時間...

Windows Defender ATP の機械学習と Antimalware Scan Interface: スクリプトを悪用した「環境寄生型」攻撃の検出

本記事は、Microsoft Secure のブログ “Windows Defender ATP machine learning and AMSI: Unearthing script-based attacks that ‘live off the land’”...