Posted on Tuesday July 14, 2020 | MSRC alerts
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 score of 10.0. This issue results from a flaw in Microsoft's DNS server role implementation and affects all Windows Server versions. Non-Microsoft DNS Servers are not affected. Wormable vulnerabilities have the potential to spread via malware between vulnerable computers without user interaction. Windows DNS Server is a core networking component. While this...
Posted on Thursday July 02, 2020 | MSRC alerts
This blog post outlines the work that Microsoft is doing to eliminate uninitialized kernel pool memory vulnerabilities from Windows and why we’re on this path. For a background on why uninitialized memory matters and what options have been used in the past to tackle this issue, please see our previous blog post. The brief recap...
Posted on Monday June 01, 2020 | MSRC alerts
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 models have been developed to assist security professionals in protecting the cloud, adversaries have been busy developing malware designed to evade ML models. To proactively...
Posted on Wednesday May 13, 2020 | MSRC alerts
This blog post outlines the work that Microsoft is doing to eliminate uninitialized stack memory vulnerabilities from Windows and why we're on this path. This blog post will be broken down into a few parts that folks can jump to: 1. Uninitialized Memory Background; 2. Potential Solutions to Uninitialized Memory Vulnerabilities; 3. InitAll - Automatic Initialization; 4. Interesting Findings...
Posted on Tuesday May 05, 2020 | MSRC alerts
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 research challenge aims to spark new high impact...
Posted on Wednesday April 29, 2020 | MSRC alerts
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 is used quite extensively to run cloud software across many vendors and companies and is primarily written in the Go programming language. While there have...