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BlueHat v15 Announces Schedule and Registration

Wednesday, November 18, 2015

As we inch closer to the 15th BlueHat Security Conference, we are happy to announce the lineup of speakers and topics for this event. This year will continue with a solid speaker and topic selection that engage engineers, executives, and invited guests to discuss and tackle some of the hardest problems facing the industry today.

November 2015 Security Update Release Summary

Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Today we released security updates to provide protections against malicious attackers. As a best practice, we encourage customers to apply security updates as soon as they are released. More information about this month’s security updates and advisories can be found in the Security TechNet Library. MSRC Team

EMET: To be, or not to be, A Server-Based Protection Mechanism

Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Hi Folks – Platforms PFE Dan Cuomo here to discuss a common question seen in the field: “My customer is deploying EMET and would like to know if it is supported on Server Operating Systems.” On the surface there is a simple answer to this question, however with a little poking, a little prodding, the question quickly becomes:

Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) version 5.5 Beta is now available

Thursday, October 15, 2015

Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) version 5.5 Beta is now available The Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) benefits enterprises and all computer users by helping to protect against security threats and breaches that can disrupt businesses and daily lives. It does this by anticipating, diverting, terminating, blocking, or otherwise invalidating the most common actions and techniques adversaries might use to compromise a computer.

Announcing BlueHat v15 Conference

Wednesday, October 14, 2015

We are happy to announce the 15th version of the Microsoft BlueHat Security Conference set for January 12-13, 2016. The annual security conference brings internal and external speakers to educate and engage Microsoft’s engineering community and their executives. Work is under way currently to set the schedule for this event. Attendance at BlueHat is open to Microsoft full time employees, contingent staff, and invited researchers, luminaries, partners, and customers.

October 2015 Security Update Release Summary

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Today we released security updates to provide protections against malicious attackers. As a best practice, we encourage customers to apply security updates as soon as they are released. More information about this month’s security updates and advisories can be found in the Security TechNet Library. MSRC Team

September 2015 Security Update Release Summary

Tuesday, September 08, 2015

Today we released security updates to provide protections against malicious attackers. As a best practice, we encourage customers to apply security updates as soon as they are released. More information about this month’s security updates and advisories can be found in the Security TechNet Library. MSRC Team

What makes a good Microsoft Defense Bounty submission?

Tuesday, September 08, 2015

One of Microsoft’s longstanding strategies toward improving software security continues to involve investing in defensive technologies that make it difficult and costly for attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. These solutions generally have a broad and long lasting impact on software security because they focus on eliminating classes of vulnerabilities or breaking the exploitation primitives that attackers rely on.

Security Update Solution Further Protects Customer Devices

Tuesday, August 18, 2015

On Tuesday, August 18, 2015, Microsoft released a security update solution to address a vulnerability. The update is for all supported versions of Internet Explorer. We recommend customers to apply this update as soon as possible by following the directions on the TechNet.com/Security website, in Security Bulletin MS15-093. More information about this bulletin can be found at Microsoft’s Bulletin Summary page.