Vulnerability Descriptions in the New Version of the Security Update Guide

Source: https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/blog/2020/11/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 … Read more

Attacks exploiting Netlogon vulnerability (CVE-2020-1472)

Source: https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/blog/2020/10/attacks-exploiting-netlogon-vulnerability-cve-2020-1472/ Microsoft has received a small number of reports from customers and others about continued activity exploiting a vulnerability affecting the Netlogon protocol (CVE-2020-1472) which was previously addressed in security updates … Read more

Announcing the Top MSRC 2020 Q3 Security Researchers

Source: https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/blog/2020/10/announcing-the-top-msrc-2020-q3-security-researchers/ Following the MSRC’s 2020 Most Valuable Security Researchers announced during this year’s Black Hat, we’re excited to announce the top contributing researchers for the 2020 Third Quarter (Q3)! The top … Read more

Security Analysis of CHERI ISA

Source: https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/blog/2020/10/security-analysis-of-cheri-isa/ Is it possible to get to a state where memory safety issues would be deterministically mitigated? Our quest to mitigate memory corruption vulnerabilities led us to examine CHERI (Capability Hardware … Read more

Concluding the Azure Sphere Security Research Challenge, Microsoft Awards $374,300 to Global Security Research Community

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

What to Expect When Reporting Vulnerabilities to Microsoft

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

New and improved Security Update Guide!

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

Control Flow Guard for Clang/LLVM and Rust

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

Microsoft Joins Open Source Security Foundation

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

Black Hat 2020: See you in the Cloud!

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

Updates to the Windows Insider Preview Bounty Program

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

Azure Sphere Security Research Challenge Now Open

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

The Safety Boat: Kubernetes and Rust

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

Congratulating Our Top 2020 Q1 Security Researchers!

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