Building the Azure IoT Edge Security Daemon in Rust

Azure IoT Edge is an open source, cross platform software project from the Azure IoT team at Microsoft that seeks to solve the problem of managing distribution of compute to the edge of your on-premise network from the cloud. This post explains some of the rationale behind our choice of Rust as t...

2019 年 7 月のセキュリティ更新プログラム (月例)

2019 年 7 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...

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...

Hyper-V Debugging Symbols Are Publicly Available

The security of Microsoft’s cloud services is a top priority for us. One of the technologies that is central to cloud security is Microsoft Hyper-V which we use to isolate tenants from one another in the cloud. Given the importance of this technology, Microsoft has made and continues to make...

2017 年 11 月のセキュリティ更新プログラム (月例)

================================================================= 2017 年 11 月 23 日追記 11 月の Windows の月例セキュリティ更新プログラムを適用後に以下の問題が発生することを確認し...

Windows に関する報奨金プログラムの発表

本記事は、Microsoft Security Response Center のブログ “Announcing the Windows Bounty Program” 2017 年 7 月 26 日 米...

Outlook の脆弱性を修正するセキュリティ更新プログラムを定例外で公開

2017 年 7 月 28 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定例外で公...

July 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...

Update on Petya malware attacks

As happened recently with WannaCrypt, we again face a malicious attack in the form of ransomware, Petya. In early reports, there was a lot of conflicting information reported on the attacks, including conflation of unrelated and misleading pieces of data, so Microsoft teams mobilized to investiga...

Extending the Microsoft Edge Bounty Program

Over the past ten months we have paid out over $200,000 USD in bounties. This collaboration with the research community has resulted in significant improvements in Edge security and has allowed us to offer more proactive security for our customers. Keeping in line with our philosophy of protectin...

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...

2016 年 12 月のセキュリティ情報 (月例) - MS16-144 ～ MS16-155

2016 年 12 月 14 日 日本時間、マイクロソフトは計 12 件 緊急 6 件、重要 6 件 の新規セキュリティ情報を公開し...

Microsoft Bounty Programs Announce Expansion - Bounty for Microsoft OneDrive

At Microsoft, we continue to add new properties to our security bug bounty programs to help keep our customer’s secure. Today, I’m pleased to announce the addition of Microsoft OneDrive to the Microsoft Online Services Bug Bounty Program. This addition further incentivizes security researchers to...

Advances in Scripting Security and Protection in Windows 10 and PowerShell V5

In the last several releases of Windows, we’ve been working hard to make the platform much more powerful for administrators, developers, and power users alike. PowerShell is an incredibly useful and powerful language for managing Windows domains. Unfortunately, attackers can take advantage of the...

June 2015 Updates

Today, as part of Update Tuesday, we released 8 security bulletins. We encourage customers to apply all of these updates. For more information about this month’s security updates, including the detailed view of the Exploitability Index XI, visit the Microsoft Bulletin Summary webpage. If you are...

Security Advisory 3046015 released

Today, we released Security Advisory 3046015 to provide guidance to customers in response to the SSL/TLS issue referred to by researchers as “FREAK” Factoring attack on RSA-EXPORT Keys. Our investigation continues and we’ll take the necessary steps to protect our customers. MSRC Team...

Security Bulletin MS14-068 released

Today, we released an out-of-band security update to address a vulnerability in Kerberos which could allow Elevation of Privilege. This update is for all supported versions of Windows Server and includes a defense-in-depth update for all supported versions of Windows. We strongly encourage...

MS14-072: .NET Remoting Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Today Microsoft shipped MS14-072 to the .NET Framework to address an Elevation of Privilege EOP vulnerability in the .NET Remoting feature. This update fixes a specific issue in .NET Remoting that permitted specially crafted remote endpoints to take advantage of this vulnerability. What is .NET...

An Overview of KB2871997

An Overview of KB2871997 Microsoft recently released KB2871997 for Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2008R2, and Windows Server 2012. This blog will give an overview of the feature changes, their impact, and some important configuration changes that can be made in conjunction with the update t...

When ASLR makes the difference

We wrote several times in this blog about the importance of enabling Address Space Layout Randomization mitigation ASLR in modern software because it’s a very important defense mechanism that can increase the cost of writing exploits for attackers and in some cases prevent reliable exploitation. ...

Advance Notification Service for December 2013 Security Bulletin Release

Today we’re providing advance notification for the release of 11 bulletins, five Critical and six Important, for December 2013. The Critical updates address vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer, Windows, Microsoft Exchange and GDI+. The Critical update for GDI+ fully addresses the publicly...

The October 2013 security updates

This month we release eight bulletins – four Critical and four Important - which address 25 unique CVEs in Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer, SharePoint, .NET Framework, Office, and Silverlight. For those who need to prioritize their deployment planning, we recommend focusing on MS13-080,...

The story of MS13-002: How incorrectly casting fat pointers can make your code explode

C++ supports developers in object-orientated programming and removes from the developer the responsibility of dealing with many object-oriented programming OOP paradigm problems. But these problems do not magically disappear. Rather it is the compiler that aims to provide a solution to many of th...

Try something new – Beat the BlueHat Challenge!

August 2014 Update: The BlueHat Challenge is on hold. We will make an announcement on this blog when we re-start the BlueHat Challenge. Thanks for your interest! --- We were inspired by the Matasano Crypto Challenges. So we built a similar series of fun challenges to exercise reverse engineering,...

Investing in the researcher experience: New MSRC Researcher Portal enhancements

Security researchers play a critical role in helping Microsoft protect customers around the world. Every report submitted through the Microsoft Security Response Center MSRC Researcher Portal contributes to making Microsoft’s products and services more secure. We are grateful for the expertise,...

Microsoft Exchange サーバーのゼロデイ脆弱性報告に関するお客様向けガイダンス

本ブログは、Customer Guidance for Reported Zero-day Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Serverの抄訳版です。最新の情報は原文を参照してくだ...

Anatomy of a Cloud-Service Security Update

Our security teams around the world focus on identifying and mitigating security issues as soon as possible while minimizing customer disruption. One of the challenges of a traditional security update is ensuring customers apply the protections promptly. We recently discussed the work that goes...

Congratulations to the Top MSRC 2021 Q4 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 2021 Q4 Security Researcher Leaderboard are: rezer0dai...

[IT 管理者むけ] Active Directoryのセキュリティ強化への対応をご確認ください

2021 年 11 月以降のセキュリティ更新プログラムには、脆弱性を解決するために、Active Directory における 4 件のセ...

セキュリティイベント　CODE BLUE でお会いしましょう

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...

オンプレミス Exchange 緩和ツール (ワンクリックの緩和ツール)

「One-Click Microsoft Exchange On-Premises Mitigation Tool – March 2021」の日本語抄訳です。 最近のオンプレミスの Exchange Server を狙った攻撃に...

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...

Vulnerability Descriptions in the New Version of the Security Update Guide

With the launch of the new version of the Security Update Guide, Microsoft is demonstrating its commitment to industry standards by describing the vulnerabilities with the Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS. This is a precise method that describes the vulnerability with attributes such as t...

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...

Attacking the VM Worker Process

In the past year we invested a lot of time making Hyper-V research more accessible to everyone. Our first blog post, “First Steps in Hyper-V Research”, describes the tools and setup for debugging the hypervisor and examines the interesting attack surfaces of the virtualization stack components. W...

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...

2019 年 6 月のセキュリティ更新プログラム (月例)

2019 年 6 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...

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...

Recognizing Q4 Top 5 Bounty Hunters

We have tabulated the results from April-June 2018. The Top 5 Bounty Hunters for Q4 are now in. As with our list from Q3, we want to recognize both the leaders in payouts and in number of successful submissions. We appreciate the hard work and dedication of the following individuals and companies...

March 2018 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...

急速に広がるサイバー攻撃「ラピッド サイバー攻撃」の概要

本記事は、Microsoft Secure ブログ “Overview of rapid cyberattacks” 2018 年 1 月 23 日 米国...

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’”...

2017 年 6 月のセキュリティ更新プログラム (月例)

2017 年 6 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...

May 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...

Bountycraft at Nullcon 2017

Security is a critical component of our products at Microsoft. A strong emphasis on security is a persistent factor throughout our entire development process. Microsoft is committed to designing and developing secure software. Testing is performed both internally and by working closely with the...

Office 365 security researchers: Double your bounties March-May 2017

Microsoft strives to protect our customers and we’re constantly improving our security posture to meet their needs. We realize the desire of researchers and customers to security test our services to ensure they can trust us and our solutions. We also believe that if a researcher informs us of a...

December 2016 security update release

Today we released security updates to provide additional protections against malicious attackers. As a best practice, we encourage customers to apply security updates as soon as they are released. More information about this month’s security updates and advisories can be found in the Security...

Microsoft Bounty Programs Expansion – Microsoft Edge Remote Code Execution (RCE) Bounty

I’m very happy to announce another addition to the Microsoft Bounty Programs. Microsoft will be hosting a bounty for Remote Code Execution vulnerabilities in Microsoft Edge on Windows Insider Preview builds. This bounty continues our partnership with the security research community in working to...

Microsoft Bounty Programs Expansion - .NET Core and ASP.NET Beta Bounty

Today, I have another exciting expansion of the Microsoft Bounty Programs to announce. Please visit https://aka.ms/bugbounty to find out more. I’ll be discussing this new bounty in my talk at SyScan360 on October 21, 2015. We are delighted to offer a bounty for the .NET Core and ASP.NET Beta whic...

Security Advisory 2982792 released, Certificate Trust List updated

Today, we are updating the Certificate Trust List CTL for all supported releases of Microsoft Windows to remove the trust of mis-issued third-party digital certificates. These certificates could be used to spoof content and perform phishing or man-in-the-middle attacks against web properties. Wit...