Month: January 2020

Announcing the Xbox Bounty program

Announcing the new Xbox Bounty. The Xbox bounty program invites gamers, security researchers, and technologists around the world to help identify security vulnerabilities in the Xbox network and services, and share them with the Microsoft Xbox team through Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure (CVD).

カスタマー サポート データベースのアクセス構成の誤りについて

本日、マイクロソフトは、社内のカスタマー サポート データベースの構成の誤りに関して、調査を終了しました。調査では、悪用は見つかっておらず、ほとんどのお客様の個人を特定できる情報は、公開された状態ではないことが確認されました。しかしながら、このインシデントに関して、すべてのお客様に対して透明性を保ち、真剣に取り組み、説明の責任を果たしたいと考えています。

Access Misconfiguration for Customer Support Database

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 …

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Announcing MSRC 2019 Q4 Security Researcher Leaderboard

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 …

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January 2020 Security Updates: CVE-2020-0601

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 …

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January 2020 security updates are available!

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 …

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Announcing the Microsoft Identity Research Project Grant

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).