Microsoft Announces Top Contributing Partners in the Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP)

Posted on Thursday July 25, 2019  |  MSRC alerts

Today we announce the top organizational candidates for Vulnerability Top Contributors, Threat Indicator Top Submitters, and Zero-Day Top Reporting for the period of July 1, 2018 - June 30, 2019. The Microsoft Active Protections Program provides security and protection to customers through cooperation and collaboration with industry leading partners. This bi-directional sharing program of threat...

 

Why Rust for safe systems programming

Posted on Monday July 22, 2019  |  MSRC alerts

In this series, we have explored the need for proactive measures to eliminate a class of vulnerabilities and walked through some examples of memory safety issues we've found in Microsoft code that could have been avoided with a different language. Now we'll peek at why we think that Rust represents the best alternative to C...

 

We Need a Safer Systems Programming Language

Posted on Thursday July 18, 2019  |  MSRC alerts

In our first post in this series, we discussed the need for proactively addressing memory safety issues. Tools and guidance are demonstrably not preventing this class of vulnerabilities; memory safety issues have represented almost the same proportion of vulnerabilities assigned a CVE for over a decade. We feel that using memory-safe languages will mitigate this...

 

Announcing the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Bounty program

Posted on Wednesday July 17, 2019  |  MSRC alerts

One of Microsoft's many security investments to protect customers is in the partnerships we build with the external security research community. We are excited to announce the launch of the Dynamics 365 Bounty program and welcome researchers to seek out and disclose any high impact vulnerabilities they may find in Dynamics 365. Rewards up to...

 

A proactive approach to more secure code

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...

 

July 2019 Security Update Release

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.

 

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