Posted on Wednesday January 22, 2020 | MSRC alerts
Today, we concluded an investigation into a misconfiguration of an internal customer support database used for Microsoft support case analytics. While the investigation found no malicious use, and although most customers did not have personally identifiable information exposed, we want to be transparent about this incident with all customers and reassure them that we are taking...
Posted on Wednesday January 15, 2020 | MSRC alerts
Following the first Security Researcher Quarterly Leaderboard we published in October 2019, we are excited to announce the MSRC Q4 2019 Security Researcher Leaderboard, which shows the top contributing researchers for the last quarter. In each quarterly leaderboard, we recognize the security researchers who ranked at or above the 95th percentile line based on the...
Posted on Tuesday January 14, 2020 | MSRC alerts
We have released the January 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. As a reminder, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 will be out of...
Posted on Tuesday January 14, 2020 | MSRC alerts
The January security updates include several Important and Critical security updates. As always, we recommend that customers update their systems as quickly as practical. Details for the full set of updates released today can be found in the Security Update Guide. We believe in Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure (CVD) as proven industry best practice to address security vulnerabilities. Through a partnership...
Posted on Thursday January 09, 2020 | MSRC alerts
We are excited to announce the Microsoft Identity Research Project Grant a new opportunity in partnership with the security community to help protect Microsoft customers. This project grant awards up to $75,000 USD for approved research proposals that improve the security of the Microsoft Identity solutions in new ways for both Consumers (Microsoft Account) and Enterprise (Azure Active Directory). The post appeared first on...
Posted on Tuesday December 10, 2019 | MSRC alerts
We have released the December 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. As a reminder, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 will be out of...