Posted on Thursday October 24, 2019 | MSRC alerts
We've finished two incredible days of security trainings at the Living Computer Museum in Seattle. Now it's time for the second part of BlueHat: the briefings at ShowBox SoDo. We've got a big day planned, so head on down. Please join us for breakfast (we have doughnuts! and bacon! and cereal!) when the doors open...
Posted on Wednesday October 23, 2019 | MSRC alerts
Sharing the latest updates to the Microsoft Identity Bounty Program. The post Microsoft Identity Bounty Improvements appeared first on Microsoft Security Response Center.
Posted on Friday October 18, 2019 | MSRC alerts
Announcing the new ElectionGuard Bounty program. The post Introducing the ElectionGuard Bounty program appeared first on Microsoft Security Response Center.
Posted on Thursday October 17, 2019 | MSRC alerts
Right before Black Hat USA 2019, we announced our new researcher recognition program, and at Black Hat we announced the top researchers from the previous twelve months. Since it's easier to track your progress with regular updates than with just an annual report, we are excited to announce the MSRC Q3 2019 Security Researcher Leaderboard.
Posted on Wednesday October 16, 2019 | MSRC alerts
Over the course of my internship at the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC), I worked on the safe systems programming languages (SSPL) team to promote safer languages for systems programming where runtime overhead is important, as outlined in this blog. My job was to port a security critical network processing agent into Rust to eliminate...
Posted on Tuesday October 08, 2019 | MSRC alerts
We have released the October 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...