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Lovely tokens and the September 2013 security updates
Helen Hunt Jackson famously wrote, “By all lovely tokens September is here, with summer’s best of weather and autumn’s best of cheer.” I share Helen’s clear adoration for this time of year. As a sports fan, there are so many “lovely tokens” to enjoy. The baseball pennant race is heating up, colle...
Preparing for Live Pwnage: Mitigation Bypass Bounty Machine Specs for Black Hat
With about one week to go before we all gather at Black Hat in Las Vegas, we’re getting inquiries about precisely how the promised Live Mitigation Bypass Bounty judging at Black Hat will work. For most of the world, it works best when you get a good spot at the Microsoft booth 301 around noon eac...
Announcing the Microsoft Bounty Programs
Over the years, weve put a lot of work into helping secure the computing ecosystem and limiting the number of issues in our products. The security researcher community is critical to these efforts, as they help us find vulnerabilities in our software that we may have missed. Now were taking it ev...
Improved cryptography infrastructure and the June 2013 bulletins
It was just over one year ago, May 28, 2012, to be exact, that I transitioned from running active MSRC cases and writing bulletins to my current role managing software security incidents. A lot has changed in that year- and I’ve dealt with some interesting issues during my tenure - but our goal o...
You asked, we delivered: Introducing new features for an improved security experience
At the Microsoft Security Response Center MSRC, your feedback drives our innovation. Every enhancement we deliver starts with listening to the security community and our customers. Based on your input, we’ve introduced three new features designed to make your experience more efficient, transparen...
On-Premises Servers Products are Here! Introducing the Applications and On-Premises Servers Bug Bounty Program
Microsoft is excited to announce the addition of Exchange on-premises, SharePoint on-premises, and Skype for Business on-premises to the Applications and On-Premises Servers Bounty Program. Through this expanded program, we encourage researchers to discover and report high-impact security...
Researcher Spotlight: Dr. Nestori Syynimaa’s Constant Mission Protecting Identities
"When you find the things I find, they really matter. They affect everybody’s security.” Currently streaming : The Expanse and Lost in Space on Netflix Currently listening to : Amorphis, Architects, and Killswitch Engage Currently running : 130 kilometers or 80 miles a month Currently playing :...
Congratulating Our Top MSRC 2021 Q1 Security Researchers!
We’re excited to announce the top contributing researchers for the 2021 First Quarter Q1! Congratulations to all the researchers recognized in this quarter’s leaderboard and thank you to everyone who continues to help secure our customers and the...
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...
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...
Customer Guidance for the Dopplepaymer Ransomware
Microsoft has been investigating recent attacks by malicious actors using the Dopplepaymerransomware. There is misleading information circulating about Microsoft Teams, along with references to RDP BlueKeep, as ways in which this malware spreads. Our security research teams have investigated and...
November 2019 security updates are available!
We have released the November 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,...
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 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...
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...
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...
Inside MSRC: Sharing Our Story & Customer Tips
For the last 20 years, the Microsoft Security Response Center has been an integral part of Microsoft’s commitment to customer security. We are often called on to talk about the work we do and how customers can apply the lessons we have learned over that period to better their security posture...
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...
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...
「Emotet」の大規模感染を阻止した人工知能のしくみ
本記事は、Microsoft Secure のブログ “How artificial intelligence stopped an Emotet outbreak” 2018 年 2 月 14 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...
Inside the MSRC – How we recognize our researchers
This is the first of a series of blog entries to give some insight into the Microsoft Security Response Center MSRC business and how we work with security researchers and vulnerability reports. The Microsoft Security Response Center actively recognizes those security researchers who help us to...
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’”...
October 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...
Customer Guidance for WannaCrypt attacks
Microsoft solution available to protect additional products Today many of our customers around the world and the critical systems they depend on were victims of malicious “WannaCrypt” software. Seeing businesses and individuals affected by cyberattacks, such as the ones reported today, was painfu...
Protecting customers and evaluating risk
Today, Microsoft triaged a large release of exploits made publicly available by Shadow Brokers. Understandingly, customers have expressed concerns around the risk this disclosure potentially creates. Our engineers have investigated the disclosed exploits, and most of the exploits are already...
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...
Furthering our commitment to security updates
Microsoft is committed to delivering comprehensive security updates to our customers. Information about the security updates we release are currently made available on the Microsoft Security Bulletin website. However, our customers have asked for better access to update information, as well as...
Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) version 5.5 is now available
The Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit EMET benefits enterprises and all computer users by helping to protect against security threats and breaches that can disrupt businesses and daily lives. It does this by anticipating, diverting, terminating, blocking, or otherwise invalidating the most...
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...
MBSA 2.3 and the November 2013 Security Bulletin Webcast, Q&A, and Slide Deck
Today we’re publishing the November 2013 Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page. The majority of questions focused on the ActiveX Kill Bits bulletin MS13-090 and the advisories. We also answered a few general questions that were not specific to any of this month’s updates, but that ma...
Are you prepared for the BlueHat Challenge?
Today we are kicking off a new challenge so you can showcase your security prowess and, if we can, help you build some more. Our BlueHat Challenge is a series of computer security questions, which increase in difficulty as you progress. Only the rare and talented engineer will be able to finish t...
New Bounty Program Details
Today we announced the upcoming Mitigation Bypass Bounty, the BlueHat Bonus for Defense, and the Internet Explorer 11 Preview Bug Bounty program. It’s very exciting to finally take the wraps off of these initiatives and we are anticipating some great submissions from the security research...
Microsoft is sponsoring the Cyber Security Challenge UK
The global adoption of computing continues to draw attackers toward ever-richer targets. The latest data from the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report shows that although industry-wide vulnerability disclosures are down and computer defenses are improved, exploit activity has actually increased...
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...
オンプレミスサーバー製品追加! アプリケーションとオンプレミス サーバーのバグ報奨金プログラムの紹介
本ブログは、On-Premises Servers Products are Here! Introducing the Applications and On-Premises Servers Bug Bounty Program の抄訳版です。最新の情報は原文を参照して...
Announcing the Top MSRC 2021 Q2 Security Researchers - Congratulations!
We’re excited to announce the top contributing researchers for the 2021 Second Quarter Q2! Congratulations to all the researchers recognized in this quarter’s leaderboard and thank you to everyone who continues to help secure our customers and 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...
より安全な TLS 設定を利用しましょう
データを暗号化し安全にやり取りを行う Transport Layer Security TLS。本ブログでも、過去に何度かお知らせしてきたよう...
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...
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...
MSRC is going to ROOTCON!
The Microsoft Security Response Center MSRC works with partners all over the world to protect Microsoft customers. This week we’re headed to the Philippines to meet security researchers and bounty hunters at ROOTCON 13! Planning on attending ROOTCON? If you want to learn more about how you can ea...
Corporate IoT - a path to intrusion
Several sources estimate that by the year 2020 some 50 billion IoT devices will be deployed worldwide. IoT devices are purposefully designed to connect to a network and many are simply connected to the internet with little management or oversight. Such devices still must be identifiable,...
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...
2019 年 4 月のセキュリティ更新プログラム (月例)
2019 年 4 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...
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...
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...
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...