Posted on Tuesday July 16, 2019 | MSRC alerts
What if we could eliminate an entire class of vulnerabilities before they ever happened? Since 2004, the Microsoft Security Response Centre (MSRC) has triaged every reported Microsoft security vulnerability. From all that triage one astonishing fact sticks out: as Matt Miller discussed in his 2019 presentation at BlueHat IL, the majority of vulnerabilities fixed and...
Posted on Tuesday July 09, 2019 | MSRC alerts
We have released the July 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.
Posted on Monday July 01, 2019 | MSRC alerts
This is the third and last in a series of posts that looks at how Microsoft responds to elevated threats to customers through the Microsoft Security Response Center's (MSRC) Software and Services Incident Response Plan (SSIRP). Our previous posts discussed how Microsoft protects customers against elevated threats and the anatomy of a SSIRP incident. Inside the MSRC - Building your own security incident response process.
Posted on Thursday June 27, 2019 | MSRC alerts
This is the second in a series of blog posts that shares how the MSRC responds to elevated threats to customers through the Software and Services Incident Response Plan (SSIRP). In our last blog post, we looked at the history of the Microsoft Security Response Center and SSIRP, and how Microsoft takes a holistic...
Posted on Tuesday June 25, 2019 | MSRC alerts
The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) is an integral part of Microsoft's Cyber Defense Operations Center (CDOC) that brings together security response experts from across the company to help protect, detect, and respond to threats in real-time. Staffed with dedicated teams 24/7, the CDOC has direct access to thousands of security professionals, data scientists, and...
Posted on Saturday June 15, 2019 | MSRC alerts
This week, MSRC confirmed the presence of an active Linux worm leveraging a critical Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability, CVE-2019-10149, in Linux Exim email servers running Exim version 4.87 to 4.91. Azure customers running VMs with Exim 4.92 are not affected by this vulnerability. Azure has controls in place to help limit the spread of this...