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We are excited to announce that Microsoft Office will begin publishing Office symbols for Windows via the Microsoft Public Symbol Server on August 9th 2022. The publication of Office symbols is a part of our continuing investment to improve security and performance for customers and partners. Key Advantages for customers, partners, and Microsoft Security: Empowering the security community to protect customer s
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The Microsoft Researcher Recognition Program offers public thanks and recognition to security researchers who help protect our customers through discovering and sharing security vulnerabilities under Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure. Today, we are excited to recognize this year’s top 100 Most Valuable Researchers (MVRs) based on the
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How IT and security teams can work together to improve endpoint security
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For executives in the IT and security spaces, the current climate offers reasons to worry. As workers become accustomed to new flexibility in the workplace, hybrid and remote work options present more challenges. Users want to access corporate resources from their own devices without the inconvenience of onerous security protocols or giving up their privacy. As digital estates are growing, attacks are increasing in size and sophistication. Serious threats are real, even for small and midsize businesses, as explored in this breakdown of the H0lyGh0st ransomware. IT and security professionals must manage their endpoints and users to counter these threats and maint…
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Safeguard holds are one of several previously announced protection features of the Windows Update for Business deployment service. In this article, we explore how you benefit from safeguards to protect devices under your management during deployments. Specifically, we'll review: Safeguard holds for known and likely issues What safeguard holds look like behind the scenes How to make the most of safeguard holds Earlier this year, we started a new blog series exploring these features, which are designed to work together to help you have a smoother experience when updating and upgrading your organization's devices. These features are available to organizations with…
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Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting proactively hunts threats
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Today, we announced the general availability of Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting to support organizations and their cybersecurity employees with proactive threat hunting. Defender Experts for Hunting was created for customers who have a robust security operations center but want Microsoft to help them proactively hunt threats using Microsoft Defender data. Defender Experts for Hunting is a proactive threat hunting service that goes beyond the endpoint to hunt across endpoints, Microsoft Office 365, cloud applications, and identity. Our experts will investigate anything they find, then hand off the contextual alert information along with remediation instructions s…
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Uncover adversaries with new Microsoft Defender threat intelligence products The threat landscape is more sophisticated than ever and damages have soared—the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s 2021 IC3 report found that the cost of cybercrime now totals more than USD6.9 billion.1 To counter these threats, Microsoft is continuously aggregating signal and threat intelligence across the digital estate, which is enabling us to track threat actors much more closely and to better understand their behavior over time. Today, Microsoft tracks 35 ransomware families, and more than 250 unique nation-states, cybercriminals, and other threat actors. Our cloud also processes and an…
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Update to Endpoint Manager integration with the Microsoft Store on Windows
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Today, I bring you an update on Microsoft Store app integration with Microsoft Endpoint Manager, how it will work, the initial features available, and how it will evolve over time. It has been almost a year since Microsoft announced the eventual retirement of the Microsoft Store for Business and Microsoft Store for Education. We have been hard at work optimizing the Store experience in Endpoint Manager, and we are excited to share with you an update on this effort: What do things look like today? How are things changing? When are these changes coming? We have also created a list of frequently asked questions (FAQ), which will be updated in the coming months.…
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Anatomy of a Cloud-Service Security Update
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Our security teams around the world focus on identifying and mitigating security issues as soon as possible while minimizing customer disruption. One of the challenges of a traditional security update is ensuring customers apply the protections promptly. We recently discussed the work that goes into these updates in The Anatomy of a Security update. Cloud … Anatomy of a Cloud-Service Security Update Read More » Continue reading...
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Industrial systems: What it takes to secure and staff them
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The security community is continuously changing, growing, and learning from each other to better position the world against cyberthreats. In the latest post of our Community Voices blog series, Microsoft Security Senior Product Marketing Manager Brooke Lynn Weenig talks with Patrick C. Miller, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and owner of Ampere Industrial Security and the founder and former Director of the Energy Sector Security Consortium. The thoughts below reflect Patrick’s views, not the views of Patrick’s employer, and are not legal advice. In this blog post, Patrick talks about security and hiring challenges in the industrial security industry. Brooke: How did you …
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Our security teams around the world focus on identifying and mitigating security issues as soon as possible while minimizing customer disruption. One of the challenges of a traditional security update is ensuring customers apply the protections promptly. We recently discussed the work that goes into these updates in The Anatomy of a Security update.
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Untangling KNOTWEED: European private-sector offensive actor using 0-day exploits
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The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) and the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) found a private-sector offensive actor (PSOA) using multiple Windows and Adobe 0-day exploits, including one for the recently patched CVE-2022-22047, in limited and targeted attacks against European and Central American customers. The PSOA, which MSTIC tracks as KNOTWEED, developed malware called Subzero which was used in these attacks. This blog details Microsoft’s analysis of the observed KNOTWEED activity and related malware used in targeted attacks against our customers. This information is shared with our customers and industry partners to improve detection of these …
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Malicious IIS extensions quietly open persistent backdoors into servers
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Attackers are increasingly leveraging Internet Information Services (IIS) extensions as covert backdoors into servers, which hide deep in target environments and provide a durable persistence mechanism for attackers. While prior research has been published on specific incidents and variants, little is generally known about how attackers leverage the IIS platform as a backdoor. Malicious IIS extensions are less frequently encountered in attacks against servers, with attackers often only using script web shells as the first stage payload. This leads to a relatively lower detection rate for malicious IIS extensions compared to script web shells. IIS backdoors are also har…
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How one Microsoft product manager acts as champion for identity security
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A technology career embodies the ancient Roman saying that “luck happens when preparation meets opportunity.” Few industries are as dynamic, fast-paced, or intense as technology. With so many challenges to solve, opportunities are everywhere, but as I’ve learned myself through the years, the best opportunities are not just the ones right in front of you, they’re the ones you create. Nitika Gupta, a Microsoft Principal Product Manager who leads the team responsible for enterprise admin capabilities for identity security, personifies the spirit of preparing for, seizing, and creating opportunities, which she has done not only for herself but also for the people around he…
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Discover 5 lessons Microsoft has learned about compliance management
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Compliance management is a complex process—one that gets increasingly more complicated the larger an organization grows. Microsoft knows this firsthand, not only because of our experience providing Security and Compliance solutions to customers but also because of the global reach and responsibility for maintaining compliance with a hefty number of regional and industry-specific regulations. Another thing Microsoft has learned along this journey is that the route is significantly smoother with an inclusive mindset and digital tools to ease the way. In the new world of hybrid work, regulatory compliance has become a board-level directive. Local and global regulations di…
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Preview Unified Update Platform for on-premises update management
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A private preview of the Unified Update Platform (UUP) for on-premises update management is available for commercial organizations between now and September. This preview prepares you and your organization for the complete transition of servicing to UUP by early 2023. UUP on premises is an integration with Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) and Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager. This new capability simplifies Windows content management and streamlines the process for upgrading to Windows 11 for those who manage Windows devices with these update management platforms. Today I'm providing a brief overview of the UUP, outlining how UUP on premises simplifies qual…
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Announcing the sunset of Windows Information Protection (WIP)
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Certain capabilities within the solution known as Windows Information Protection (WIP), previously referred to as Enterprise Data Protection (EDP) will be discontinued over time. As a result, we recommend that you explore Microsoft Purview Information Protection and Data Loss Prevention for your multi-cloud and multi-platform data protection needs. Windows Information Protection, previously known as Enterprise Data Protection (EDP), was originally released to help organizations protect enterprise apps and data against accidental data leaks without interfering with the employee experience on Windows. Over time, many of you have expressed a need for a data protection sol…
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They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so we've created guided simulations of Windows 11 functionality to help you, the IT pro, see the similarities with Windows 10 and show your employees how familiar the experience is. We want to make it easy for you to see how device and update management are the same as they were with Windows 10—and to help demonstrate how Windows 11 makes people more productive while keeping your organization protected. The four simulations (or demos) below are designed to: Help employees to get to know Windows 11 before you update their devices. Show how easy it is to deploy a cloud printer with Universal Print. Outline the process o…
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Today, many enterprise organizations are multicloud and multiplatform. Critical enterprise data is located across clouds and platforms, requiring security and compliance no matter where it lives. To solve the complexity that comes with these environments, organizations have invested in multiple point solutions, which in turn can make it hard for them to manage the fragmented compliance and risk posture covering their entire data estate. To help organizations meet today’s global compliance and risk requirements across their multicloud, multiplatform data environments, we announced Microsoft Purview in April 2022. Microsoft Purview is a portfolio of solutions for inf…
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Congratulations to all the researchers recognized in this quarter’s Microsoft Researcher Recognition Program leaderboard! Thank you to everyone for your hard work and continued partnership to secure customers. The top three researchers of the 2022 Q2 Security Researcher Leaderboard are: Yuki Chen, Zhiyi Zhang, and William Söderberg! Check out the full list of researchers recognized … Congratulations to the Top MSRC 2022 Q2 Security Researchers! Read More » Continue reading...
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How Microsoft Security partners are helping customers do more with less
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There has never been a greater demand for specialized cybersecurity expertise—or a greater opportunity for our partners to support our customers with new services and solutions. Over the last year, the permanent shift to hybrid work has empowered businesses to be remote and mobile. Increased adoption of public and private clouds has unlocked innovation, agility, and scale. At the same time, ransomware grew 105 percent over the past year and continues to become more sophisticated.1 The global cybersecurity talent shortage is now 2.72 million, and economic uncertainty has put the spotlight on extracting the highest possible return on investments.2 This week, as we join o…
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A year of Windows 365 product innovation
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Today, we are sharing updates on the upcoming Citrix HDX Plus for Windows 365 add-on, the new Windows 365 offering for government organizations in the United States, and new enhancements based on your feedback. Just one year ago, at Microsoft Inspire, our largest partner event of the year, we announced Windows 365 to the world and introduced the Cloud PC, a whole new category of cloud computing. Windows 365 Cloud PCs let you securely stream your Windows desktop experience from the Microsoft cloud to any device. With Windows 365, you can leverage your existing infrastructure and Microsoft solutions, such as Microsoft Endpoint Manager, to provision, manage, and secure Cl…
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Congratulations to all the researchers recognized in this quarter’s Microsoft Researcher Recognition Program leaderboard! Thank you to everyone for your hard work and continued partnership to secure customers. The top three researchers of the 2022 Q2 Security Researcher Leaderboard are: Yuki Chen, Zhiyi Zhang, and William Söderberg! Check out the full list of researchers recognized this quarter here.
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Summary: Google informed Microsoft under Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure (CVD) of a padding oracle vulnerability that may affect customers using Azure Storage SDK (for Python, .NET, Java) client-side encryption (CVE-2022-30187). To mitigate this vulnerability, we released a new General Availability (GA) version of the Azure Storage SDK client-side encryption feature (v2) on July 12, 2022. Microsoft … Mitigation for Azure Storage SDK Client-Side Encryption Padding Oracle Vulnerability Read More » Continue reading...
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Summary Google informed Microsoft under Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure (CVD) of a padding oracle vulnerability that may affect customers using Azure Storage SDK (for Python, .NET, Java) client-side encryption (CVE-2022-30187). To mitigate this vulnerability, we released a new General Availability (GA) version of the Azure Storage SDK client-side encryption feature (v2) on July 12, 2022.
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Windows 8.1 is now displaying full-screen alerts when logging into the operating system, warning that the OS is reaching the end of support in January 2023 and will no longer receive security updates. The notification was introduced yesterday as part of the Windows 8.1 KB5015874 cumulative update, which includes a new EOSnotify.exe program to display a warning that the operating system will soon be unsupported. "January 10, 2023 is the last day Microsoft will offer security updates and technical support for PCs that run Windows 8.1. We are reaching out now to thank you for your loyalty and help you prepare for what's next," reads the Windows 8.1 notification below.…
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