Assessing Risk for the November 2014 Security Updates

Today we released fourteen security bulletins addressing 33 unique CVE’s. Four bulletins have a maximum severity rating of Critical, eight have a maximum severity rating of Important, and two have a maximum severity rating of Moderate. This table is designed to help you prioritize the deployment ...

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...

Microsoft releases Security Advisory 2963983

Today, we released Security Advisory 2963983 regarding an issue that impacts Internet Explorer. At this time, we are only aware of limited, targeted attacks. This issue allows remote code execution if users visit a malicious website with an affected browser. This would typically occur by an...

March 2014 Security Bulletin Webcast and Q&A

Today we published the March 2014 Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page. We answered eight questions in total, with the majority focusing on the updates for Windows MS14-016 and Internet Explorer MS14-012. One question that was not answered on air has been included on the Q&A page...

Advance Notification Service for the January 2014 Security Bulletin Release

Today we provide advance notification for the release of four bulletins for January 2014. All bulletins this month are rated Important in severity and address vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Office, and Dynamics AX. The update provided in MS14-002 fully addresses the issue first described i...

Congratulations to the Top MSRC 2022 Q2 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 2022 Q2 Security Researcher Leaderboard are: Yuki Chen...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

シンプル化された Windows 7 および Windows 8.1 のサービス モデル: 最新の改善点について

本記事は、Windows for IT Pros のブログ "Simplified servicing for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1: the latest improvements" 2017 年 1 月 13 日 米国時間公開 を翻訳したもの...

June 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...

Security Bulletin MS14-045 rereleased

Every month for many years, we’ve released a number of updates focused on the continuous improvement of customers’ experiences with our technology. Historically, these updates happened at different times during the month, with the security-specific ones occurring on the second Tuesday of each...

Clarification on Security Advisory 2896666 and the ANS for the November 2013 Security Bulletin Release

Today, we’re providing advance notification for the release of eight bulletins, three Critical and five Important, for November 2013. The Critical updates address vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer and Microsoft Windows, and the Important updates address issues in Windows and Office. While this...

Security Update Guide Supports CVEs Assigned by Industry Partners

Hi Folks, This month we are introducing a new data element for each CVE in the Security Update Guide, called Assigning CNA. First let me back up a bit and give some information about the CVE program. The purpose of a CVE is to uniquely identify a cybersecurity vulnerability. The CVE program was...

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...

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...

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...

Speculative Execution Bounty Launch

Today, Microsoft is announcing the launch of a limited-time bounty program for speculative execution side channel vulnerabilities. This new class of vulnerabilities was disclosed in January 2018 and represented a major advancement in the research in this field. In recognition of that threat...

Customer Guidance on Recent Nation-State Cyber Attacks

Note: we are updating as the investigation continues. Revision history listed at the bottom. This post contains technical details about the methods of the actor we believe was involved in Recent Nation-State Cyber Attacks, with the goal to enable the broader security community to hunt for activit...

Moving Beyond EMET II – Windows Defender Exploit Guard

Since we last wrote about the future of EMET and how it relates to Windows 10 back in November 2016 see Moving Beyond EMET, we have received lots of invaluable feedback from EMET customers and enthusiasts regarding the upcoming EMET end of life. Based on that feedback, we are excited to share...

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,...

Toward greater transparency: Expanding machine-readable Vulnerability Exploitability eXchange (VEX)

Starting today, Microsoft is publishing Vulnerability Exploitability eXchange VEX statements for all Microsoft-assigned CVEs. Building on our work with theCommon Security Advisory Framework CSAFand our previousAzure Linux VEX implementation, this latest milestone in the Microsoft Security Respons...