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Congratulations to the Top MSRC 2022 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 2022 Q4 Security Researcher Leaderboard are:...
Azure App Service Linux source repository exposure
MSRC was informed by Wiz.io, a cloud security vendor, under Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure CVD of an issue where customers can unintentionally configure the .git folder to be created in the content root, which would put them at risk for information disclosure. This, when combined with an...
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...
Control Flow Guard for Clang/LLVM and Rust
As part of our ongoing efforts towards safer systems programming, we’re pleased to announce that Windows Control Flow Guard CFG support is now available in the Clang C/C++ compiler and Rust. What is Control Flow Guard? CFG is a platform security technology designed to enforce control flow...
Updates to the Windows Insider Preview Bounty Program
Partnering with the research community is an important part of Microsoft’s holistic approach to defending against security threats. Bounty programs are one part of this partnership, designed to encourage and reward vulnerability research focused on the highest impact to customer security. The...
February 2020 security updates are available
We have released the February 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. The post February...
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...
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...
DLL の植え付けの脆弱性のトリアージ
本記事は、Security Research & Defense のブログ “Triaging a DLL planting vulnerability” 2018 年 4 月...
The MSRC 2017 list of “Top 100” security researchers
Security researchers play an essential role in Microsoft’s security strategy and are key to community-based defense. To show our appreciation for their hard work and partnership, each year at BlackHat North America, the Microsoft Security Response Center highlights contributions of these...
Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) の脆弱性を利用した攻撃に対処するために団結する
本記事は、MSRC Team のブログ “Coming together to address Encapsulated PostScript EPS attacks” 2017 年 5 月 9 日 米国時間公開 を翻...
Congratulations to the Top MSRC 2024 Q1 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 2024 Q1 Security Researcher Leaderboard are Yuki Chen,...
Azure Storage Keys、Azure Functions、Azure Role Based Access に関するベスト プラクティス
本ブログは、Best practices regarding Azure Storage Keys, Azure Functions, and Azure Role Based Access の抄訳版です。最新の情報は原文を参照してください。 概要 概...
Microsoft Investigation - Threat actor consent phishing campaign abusing the verified publisher process
Summary On December 15th, 2022, Microsoft became aware of a consent phishing campaign involving threat actors fraudulently impersonating legitimate companies when enrolling in the Microsoft Cloud Partner Program MCPP formerly known as Microsoft Partner Network MPN. The actor used fraudulent partn...
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...
Announcing the Microsoft Machine Learning Membership Inference Competition (MICO)
We’re excited to announce the launch of a new competition focusing on the security and privacy of machine learning ML systems. Machine learning has already become a key enabler in many products and services, and this trend is likely to continue. It is therefore critical to understand the security...
Security Update Guide Notification System News: Create your profile now
Sharing information through the Security Update Guide SUG is an important part of our ongoing effort to help customers manage security risks and keep systems protected. In January 2022 we introduced Phase One of a new way for customers to receive email notifications about new Microsoft product...
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...
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...
Coming Soon: New Security Update Guide Notification System
Sharing information through the Security Update Guide is an important part of our ongoing effort to help customers manage security risks and keep systems protected. Based on your feedback we have been working to make signing up for and receiving Security Update Guide notifications easier. We are...
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...
Power Platform is Here! Introducing the Dynamics 365 and Power Platform Bug Bounty Program
Microsoft is excited to announce the addition of Power Platform to the newly rebranded Dynamics 365 and Power Platform Bounty Program. Through this expanded program, we encourage researchers to discover and report high impact security vulnerabilities they may find in the new Power Platform scope ...
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...
Advance Notification Service for the November 2014 Security Bulletin Release
Today, we provide advance notification for the release of 16 Security Bulletins. Five of these updates are rated Critical, nine are rated as Important, and two are rated Moderate in severity. These updates are for Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer, Office, Exchange, .NET Framework, Internet...
BlueHat Asia 2025: Closing soon: Submit your papers by September 14, 2025
The next chapter of the Microsoft Security Response Center’s MSRC BlueHat security conference is fast approaching. BlueHat Asia 2025 will take place in Bengaluru, India, on November 5 – 6, 2025 and the Call for Papers is now open. Submissions will be accepted through September 14, 2025. Now in it...
Congratulations to the Top MSRC 2024 Q3 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 2024 Q3 Security Researcher Leaderboard are wkai,...
Update on Microsoft Actions Following Attack by Nation State Actor Midnight Blizzard
This blog provides an update on the nation-state attack that was detected by the Microsoft Security Team on January 12, 2024. As we shared, on January 19, the security team detected this attack on our corporate email systems and immediately activated our response process. The Microsoft Threat...
Microsoft Actions Following Attack by Nation State Actor Midnight Blizzard
The Microsoft security team detected a nation-state attack on our corporate systems on January 12, 2024, and immediately activated our response process to investigate, disrupt malicious activity, mitigate the attack, and deny the threat actor further access. Microsoft has identified the threat...
Congratulations to the Top MSRC 2023 Q3 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 2023 Q3 Security Researcher Leaderboard are Wei,...
Congratulations to the Top MSRC 2023 Q1 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 2023 Q1 Security Researcher Leaderboard are: Kai Lu...
Best practices regarding Azure Storage Keys, Azure Functions, and Azure Role Based Access
Summary Summary Azure provides developers and security operations staff a wide array of configurable security options to meet organizational needs. Throughout the software development lifecycle, it is important for customers to understand the shared responsibility model, as well as be familiar wi...
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Threat Hunting
As more businesses shift away from running workloads on dedicated virtual machines to running them inside containers using workload orchestrators like Kubernetes, adversaries have become more interested in them as targets. Moreover, the benefits Kubernetes provides for managing workloads are also...
マイクロソフト 機械学習 メンバーシップ推論コンペティション (MICO) の発表
本ブログは、Announcing the Microsoft Machine Learning Membership Inference Competition MICOの抄訳版です。最新の情報は原文を参照してく...
Announcing the Microsoft Machine Learning Membership Inference Competition (MICO)
We’re excited to announce the launch of a new competition focusing on the security and privacy of machine learning ML systems. Machine learning has already become a key enabler in many products and services, and this trend is likely to continue. It is therefore critical to understand the security...
Expanding High Impact Scenario Awards for Microsoft Bug Bounty Programs
We are excited to announce the addition of scenario-based bounty awards to the Dynamics 365 and Power Platform Bounty Program and M365 Bounty Program. Through these new scenario-based bounty awards, we encourage researchers to focus their research on vulnerabilities that have the highest potentia...
New High Impact Scenarios and Awards for the Azure Bounty Program
Microsoft is excited to announce new Azure Bounty Program awards up to $60,000 to encourage and reward vulnerability research focused on the highest potential impact to customer security. These increased awards are a part of our ongoing investment in partnership with the security research...
New High Impact Scenarios and Awards for the Azure Bounty Program
Microsoft is excited to announce new Azure Bounty Program awards up to $60,000 to encourage and reward vulnerability research focused on the highest potential impact to customer security. These increased awards are a part of our ongoing investment in partnership with the security research...
Microsoft ファミリーセーフティで家族の安全を見守ろう
～家庭で利用する PC・タブレットの設定ガイド～ ご家庭で PC やタブレットの安全な使い方を話し合いながら設...
Microsoft Bounty Programs Expansion - Nano Server Technical Preview Bounty
Microsoft is pleased to announce another expansion of the Microsoft Bounty Programs. Today we begin a bounty for the Nano Server installation option of Windows Server 2016Technical Preview 5. Please visit https://aka.ms/BugBounty to find more details. Nano Server is a remotely administered,...
Microsoft Bounty Program Year in Review: $16.6M in Rewards
We are excited to announce that this year the Microsoft Bounty Program has awarded $16.6M in bounty awards to 343 security researchers from 55 countries, securing Microsoft customers in partnership with the Microsoft Security Response Center MSRC. Each year we identify over a thousand potential...
Microsoft Vulnerability Severity Classification for Online Services Publication
The Microsoft Security Response Center MSRC is always looking for ways to provide clarity and transparency around how we assess the impact of vulnerabilities reported in our products and services. We have published a new Microsoft Vulnerability Severity Classification for Online Services to provi...
2023 年 4 月のセキュリティ更新プログラム (月例)
2023 年 4 月 11 日 米国時間 、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...
First steps in CHERIoT Security Research
At Microsoft, we invest a lot of time researching and investigating possibilities in our journey to memory safety. Because the massive majority of existing codebases are written in unsafe programming languages, the task of protecting legacy code is very important. Hardware solutions are an...
Congratulations to the Top MSRC 2022 Q3 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 Q3 Security Researcher Leaderboard are: Zhiyi...
Disclosure of Vulnerability in Azure Automation Managed Identity Tokens
On December 10, 2021, Microsoft mitigated a vulnerability in the Azure Automation service. Azure Automation accounts that used Managed Identities tokens for authorization and an Azure Sandbox for job runtime and execution were exposed. Microsoft has not detected evidence of misuse of tokens...
2022 年 2 月のセキュリティ更新プログラム (月例)
2022 年 2 月 8 日（米国時間）、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...
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...
Microsoft Bug Bounty Programs Year in Review: $13.7M in Rewards
Security researchers are a vital component of the cybersecurity ecosystem that safeguards every facet of digital life and commerce. The researchers who devote time to uncovering and reporting security issues before adversaries can exploit them have earned our collective respect and gratitude. The...
Windows 堅牢化のためのセキュリティ構成フレームワーク (Security Configuration Framework: SecCon)
マイクロソフトによく寄せられる質問のひとつに、「マイクロソフトが推奨するセキュリティ構成や各設定項目...
Inside the MSRC – Anatomy of a SSIRP incident
This is the second in a series of blog posts that shares how the MSRC responds to elevated threats to customers through the Software and Services Incident Response Plan SSIRP. In our last blog post, we looked at the history of the Microsoft Security Response Center and SSIRP, and how Microsoft...