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Last week at BlueHat’s “MSRC Listens” session, I took the stage with Mechele Gruhn, manager of the Vulnerability Response PM team, to explain how MSRC is changing our communication, workflows, and tooling to deliver an improved user experience for our partners in the security research community. We promised to communicate more about what’s happening in the MSRC that affects our customers and research partners. We weren’t expecting to get an opportunity to demonstrate this commitment quite so soon. Back in June 2018, Microsoft updated the terms and conditions of our mitigation bypass bounty. As Joe Bialek of MSRC’s Vulnerabilities & Mitigations Team explained in …

The Windows 10 October 2018 Update is available now, and we’re also releasing new innovations in Office 365, To-Do and Outlook.com. These updates were designed to help you make the most of your time across work, home and everywhere in between. Offering tools for your whole life has never been more important as the lines between work and life have never been more blurred. Whether you are juggling a career and family, running a family as head of household, or growing your career or education, you tell us your greatest need is simply more time and the tools to do what matters most to you. You can get the Windows October 2018 Update in a couple different ways. If you al…

Today we shared our vision for a new era of personal productivity; unveiled Surface Pro 6, Surface Laptop 2, Surface Studio 2 and Surface Headphones, and announced availability of the Windows 10 October 2018 Update and new Office 365 experiences. As we work to deliver on our company mission of empowering every person and organization on the planet to achieve more, we have increased our focus on helping people across their work and personal lives. Offering tools for whole life experiences has never been more important as many of us are living a digital lifestyle that presents more opportunities, yet more demands on our time, than ever before. Whether you are jugglin…

This blog post was authored by Vinicius Apolinario, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Windows Server. Its hard to believe Ignite 2018 is now behind us. Last week at Ignite, we announced Windows Server 2019 and talked about the new hybrid, security, application platform, and hyper-converged infrastructure capabilities. Today, we are making it available for download. If you are a Windows Server customer with valid Software Assurance, you can download Windows Server 2019 on the Volume Licensing Service Center (VLSC). You can also download the evaluation version of Windows Server 2019 at the Evaluation Center. For customers running Windows Server on Azure, Wind…

What a week it was in Orlando! Ignite is always a biggie, and this one was no exception. For all of us here at Microsoft who get to work on security, spending time with customers to learn how you are using our security products today and to share new innovations to come is a highlight. At this year’s event we put even greater emphasis on providing attendees with access to engineering experts throughout more than one hundred focused sessions, workshops, and hands-on immersion experiences for the latest technologies in security. I was chuffed to see that our security booths at the center of the expo hall were chock-a-block for the whole event. Thank you to everyone who stop…

Last week at BlueHat’s “MSRC Listens” session, I took the stage with Mechele Gruhn, manager of the Vulnerability Response PM team, to explain how MSRC is changing our communication, workflows, and tooling to deliver an improved user experience for our partners in the security research community. We promised to communicate more about what’s happening in the MSRC that affects our customers and research partners.

This is a blog series that responds to common questions we receive from customers about deployment of Microsoft 365 security solutions. In this series youll find context, answers, and guidance for deployment and driving adoption within your organization. Check out Protecting user identities, the fourth blog in our eight-blog series on deploying Intelligent Security Scenarios. Your users can create, edit, and share a single document securely, even when working with multiple stakeholders, both inside and outside of your company. With Microsoft security solutions, users can identify, classify, track, and protect documents to prevent leaks and block access by unaut…

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People have always been fascinated by robots. Today advanced robots are complementing our lives, both at work and at home. Warehouse robots have enabled next-day deliveries to online shoppers, and many pet owners rely on robotic vacuums to keep their floors clean. Industries seeing benefits from robots are as diverse as manufacturing, transportation, healthcare and real estate. As robots have advanced, so have the development tools. We see robotics with artificial intelligence as universally accessible technology to augment human abilities. Microsoft is at ROSCon 2018 in Madrid, Spain and we are excited to announce an experimental release of Robot Operating System …

Consider this scenario: Two never-before-seen, heavily obfuscated scripts manage to slip past file-based detection and dynamically load an info-stealing payload into memory. The scripts are part of a social engineering campaign that tricks potential victims into running the scripts, which use the file names install_flash_player.js and BME040429CB0_1446_FAC_20130812.XML.PDF.js, to distribute and run the payload. The payload is sophisticated and particularly elusive, given that it: Doesnt touch the disk, and does not trigger antivirus file scanning Is loaded in the context of the legitimate process that executed the scripts (i.e., wscript.exe) Leaves no traces on…

Want to game on-the-go without sacrificing performance? Check out the new Samsung Notebook Odyssey Z. Powered by Windows 10, the new notebook combines an ultra-slim design with an innovative cooling system and top-tier hardware for next-level performance. In addition to being great for games, it’s designed for other processor-intense activities like video editing and 3D rendering. “Today’s games are more intense, immersive and graphic-rich than ever before, and gamers need technology built specifically for them,” says Alanna Cotton, senior vice president and general manager of Mobile Computing and Enhancements at Samsung Electronics America. “The Notebook Odyssey Z was…

Cybersecurity is the central challenge of our digital age. Without it, everything from our personal email accounts and privacy to the way we do business, and all types of critical infrastructure, are under threat. As attackers evolve, staying ahead of these threats is getting harder. Microsoft can help. We focus on three areas: running security operations that work for you, building enterprise-class technology, and driving partnerships for a heterogeneous world. We can tip the scales in favor of the good guys and make the world a safer place. Security operations that work for you Every day, we practice security operations at a global scale to protect our cust…

We are just one day away from the opening of BlueHat v18 and excitement is building. One of the questions that I have gotten more frequently the past couple years is about the artwork we use for BlueHat. So yes there is a theme. 😊 Starting in 2014, we introduced the Top Hat logo which the community took to.

This blog post was authored by Vinicius Apolinario, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Windows Server. If youve been to Ignite before, you know its a busy week for the attendees. This year Ignite will have over 700 deep-dive sessions and over 100 expert-led and self-paced workshops aside from all the network-building activities. Building an agenda and focusing on the content and products that are valuable to you is extremely important, so you can make the most out of 5 these days. With that said, I wanted to provide an overview of the Windows Server presence at Ignite 2018! Breakout sessions by product team There are hundred of sessions around Windows Ser…

This blog post was co-authored by Samuel Li, Haley Rowland, Cosmos Darwin, and Daniel Lee, Program Managers, Windows Server. The momentum continues Its been an exciting debut year for Windows Admin Center, the next-generation graphical management for Windows Server. Our team is committed to helping you manage your Windows Server infrastructure and instances, wherever they run, more easily and more efficiently. This includes delivering a platform and core set of experiences that improve day-to-day Windows Server administration, as well as lighting up new functionality and scenarios to help your organization unlock the full power of the Microsoft cloud. In April…

This year at Microsoft Ignite, we will be making some exciting announcementsfrom new capabilities for identity management and information protection to powerful artificial intelligence (AI) innovations that can help you stay ahead of an often overwhelming surge in threats and security alerts. Join us as we share best practices for current products, reveal highlights of our new offerings, and give you a glimpse of our future product vision. Start by attending Satya Nadellas keynote. Then kickstart your security journey with this session: Microsoft Security: How the cloud helps us all be more secure featuring Rob Lefferts (GS008). Well highlight whats new in Micro…

Hello Windows Insiders! Today, we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17763 (RS5) to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring. General changes, improvements, and fixes for PC The build watermark at the lower right-hand corner of the desktop is no longer present in this build. This doesn’t mean we’re done… We fixed an issue where touching a Flash element in Microsoft Edge with two or more fingers could result in the tab crashing. We fixed an issue where thumbnails and icons might not be rendered if there were any video files saved to the desktop. We fixed an issue where certain Bluetooth audio devices wouldn’t play sound in apps that also used the micropho…

Microsoft Edge on iPhone, iPad and an Android tablet and phone Want to enjoy Microsoft Edge while you’re on-the-go? You can do that, thanks to the Windows 10 April 2018 Update. To get Microsoft Edge on your Android phone, tablet, iPhone or iPad, head over to the apps store on your device and download Microsoft Edge for free. Then use Microsoft Edge on your phone or tablet to read EPUB books you’ve saved. Or start reading a webpage on phone or tablet, send the page to your PC and pick up reading right where you left off. You must download Microsoft Edge on iOS and Android phones, follow setup prompts and link the mobile phone to the PC in PC settings. …

As part of our continued efforts to tackle entire classes of threats, Office 365 client applications now integrate with Antimalware Scan Interface (AMSI), enabling antivirus and other security solutions to scan macros and other scripts at runtime to check for malicious behavior. Macro-based threats have always been a prevalent entry point for malware, but we have observed a resurgence in recent years. Continuous improvements in platform and application security have led to the decline of software exploits, and attackers have found a viable alternative infection vector in social engineering attacks that abuse functionalities like VBA macros. Microsoft, along with the …

When she’s not working, Marta Luis Burguete likes to hang out – upside down from the ceiling, as an aerial acrobat. In a new video tutorial, the Microsoft product specialist brings together her passion and her profession to show how to use a digital pen, a Surface Pro and Microsoft Office to edit a flyer, script and stage floor plan for an Aerial Circus School show. Check out the video tutorial below, in which she demonstrates how to use the digital pen to edit these plans and promotions for the show. She uses PowerPoint to edit the flyer with ink to text, ink to shape and ink replay, as well as to create the stage floor plan using the ruler, segment eraser and i…