Source: https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/blog/2020/10/azure-sphere-security-research-challenge-concluded/ The Azure Sphere Security Research Challenge brought together 70 researchers from 21 countries to help secure Azure Sphere customers and expand Microsoft’s partnerships with the global IoT security research community. … Read more

Source: https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/blog/2020/09/new-and-improved-security-update-guide/ We’re excited to announce a significant update to the Security Update Guide, our one-stop site for information about all security updates provided by Microsoft. This new version will provide a … Read more

Source: https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/blog/2020/09/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 … Read more

Source: https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2020/08/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 … Read more

Source: https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2020/08/announcing-2020-msrc-most-valuable-security-researchers/ Today we announce our Most Valuable Security Researchers for 2020! The MSRC Researcher Recognition program is an integral aspect of recognizing the ongoing partnerships with our community of talented security … Read more

Source: https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2020/08/microsoft-joins-open-source-security-foundation/ Microsoft has invested in the security of open source software for many years and today I’m excited to share that Microsoft is joining industry partners to create the Open Source … Read more

Source: https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2020/07/black-hat-2020-see-you-in-the-cloud/ It hardly feels like summer without the annual trip to Las Vegas for Black Hat USA. With this year’s event being totally cloud based, we won’t have the chance to … Read more

Source: https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2020/07/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 … Read more

Source: https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2020/07/msrc-q2-2020-leaderboard/ 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 … Read more

Source: https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2020/07/july-2020-security-update-cve-2020-1350-vulnerability-in-windows-domain-name-system-dns-server/ Today we released an update for CVE-2020-1350, a Critical Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in Windows DNS Server that is classified as a ‘wormable’ vulnerability and has a CVSS base … Read more

Source: https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2020/06/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 … Read more

Source: https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2020/05/azure-sphere-security-research-challenge/ 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 … Read more

Source: https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2020/04/the-safety-boat-kubernetes-and-rust/ Our team, DeisLabs, recently released a new piece of software called Krustlet, which is a tool for running WebAssembly modules on the popular, open-source container management tool called Kubernetes. Kubernetes … Read more

Source: https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2020/04/msrc-q1-2020-leaderboard/ 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 … Read more

Source: https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2020/03/march-2020-security-updates-are-available/ We have released the March 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 … Read more

Source: https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2020/02/calling-for-security-research-in-azure-sphere/ 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 … Read more