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Today, Arm announced the first silicon supporting the Morello prototype architecture, a research project led by Arm, Microsoft, University of Cambridge and others, is now available on a limited run of demonstration boards, being shipped from today to industry...

Sharing information through the Security Update Guide is an important part of our ongoing effort to help customers manage security risks and keep systems protected. Based on your feedback we have been working to make signing up for and...

MSRC was informed by Wiz.io, a cloud security vendor, under Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure (CVD) of an issue where customers can unintentionally configure the .git folder to be created in the content root, which would put them at risk for...

“When you find the things I find, they really matter. They affect everybody’s security.” Currently streaming: The Expanse and Lost in Space on Netflix Currently listening to: Amorphis, Architects, and Killswitch Engage Currently running: 130 kilometers (or ~80 miles)...

Published on: 2021 Dec 11 SUMMARY Microsoft is investigating the remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) related to Apache Log4j (a logging tool used in many Java-based applications) disclosed on 9 Dec 2021. As we and the industry at large...

Microsoft recently mitigated an information disclosure issue, CVE-2021-42306, to prevent private key data from being stored by some Azure services in the keyCredentials property of an Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) Application and/or Service Principal, and prevent reading of...

After a short hiatus, BlueHat is coming back with a vengeance! And we’ve got big plans for the entire researcher community. But first, I must apologize. It’s been a while since you have heard from us. We didn’t have...

We are excited to announce the launch of Comms Hub to the Researcher Portal submission experience! With this launch, security researchers will be able to streamline communication with MSRC case SPMs (case managers), attach additional files, track case and...

Microsoft is excited to announce new Azure Bounty Program awards up to $60,000 to encourage and reward vulnerability research focused on the highest potential impact to customer security. These increased awards are a part of our ongoing investment in...

Congratulations to all the researchers recognized in this quarter’s MSRC Researcher Recognition Program leaderboard! Thank you to everyone for your hard work and continued partnership to secure customers. The top three researchers of the 2021 Q3 Security Researcher Leaderboard...

Microsoft is excited to announce the addition of Power Platform to the newly rebranded Dynamics 365 and Power Platform Bounty Program. Through this expanded program, we encourage researchers to discover and report high impact security vulnerabilities they may find...

On September 14, 2021, Microsoft released fixes for three Elevation of Privilege (EoP) vulnerabilities and one unauthenticated Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in the Open Management Infrastructure (OMI) framework:  CVE-2021-38645, CVE-2021-38649, CVE-2021-38648, and CVE-2021-38647, respectively.  Open Management Infrastructure (OMI) is an open-source Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) implementation for...

Microsoft recently mitigated a vulnerability reported by a security researcher in the Azure Container Instances (ACI). Our investigation surfaced no unauthorized access to customer data. Out of an abundance of caution we notified customers with containers running on the...

On August 12, 2021, a security researcher reported a vulnerability in the Azure Cosmos DB Jupyter Notebook feature that could potentially allow a user to gain access to another customer’s resources by using the account’s primary read-write key. We...

Microsoft is excited to announce the launch of a new, three-month security research challenge under the Azure Security Lab initiative. The Azure Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) Research Challenge invites security researchers to discover and share high impact SSRF vulnerabilities...