Vulnerabilities Microsoft Offers Up to $20,000 for Vulnerabilities in Defender Products Microsoft invites researchers to new bug bounty program focused on vulnerabilities in its Defender products. Ionut ArghireNovember 22, 2023
Vulnerabilities Microsoft Paid Out $63 Million Since Launch of First Bug Bounty Program 10 Years Ago Over the past ten years, Microsoft has handed out $63 million in rewards as part of its bug bounty programs. Ionut ArghireNovember 21, 2023
Artificial Intelligence Microsoft Hires Sam Altman and OpenAI’s New CEO Vows to Investigate His Firing Microsoft hired Sam Altman and another architect of OpenAI for a new venture after their sudden departures shocked the artificial intelligence world. Associated PressNovember 20, 2023
Incident Response Microsoft Warns of Critical Bugs Being Exploited in the Wild Patch Tuesday: Redmond’s security response team flags two vulnerabilities -- CVE-2023-36033 and CVE-2023-36036 -- already being exploited in the wild. Ryan NaraineNovember 14, 2023
Cloud Security After Major Cloud Hacks, Microsoft Unveils ‘Secure Future Initiative’ In response to a spate of embarrassing hacks, Redmond pushes ‘Secure Future Initiative’ promising faster cloud patches, better management of identity signing keys and... Ryan NaraineNovember 2, 2023
Vulnerabilities Microsoft Temporarily Disables SketchUp Support After Discovery of 117 Vulnerabilities Zscaler identified 117 vulnerabilities in Microsoft 365’s support for SketchUp files and bypassed initial patches. Ionut ArghireNovember 2, 2023
Cloud Security Enterprise Browser Startup Island Banks $100M in Funding Since 2020, Island has raised a total of $325 million to help protect corporate data flowing through SaaS and internal web applications. Ryan NaraineOctober 23, 2023
Identity & Access Microsoft Improving Windows Authentication, Disabling NTLM Microsoft is adding new features to the Kerberos protocol, to eliminate the use of NTLM for Windows authentication. Ionut ArghireOctober 16, 2023
Artificial Intelligence Microsoft Offers Up to $15,000 in New AI Bug Bounty Program Microsoft is offering rewards of up to $15,000 in a new bug bounty program dedicated to its new AI-powered Bing. Ionut ArghireOctober 13, 2023
Application Security Microsoft Fixes Exploited Zero-Days in WordPad, Skype for Business Microsoft patches more than 100 vulnerabilities across the Windows ecosystem and warned that three are already being exploited in the wild. Ryan NaraineOctober 10, 2023
Endpoint Security Microsoft Adding New Security Features to Windows 11 Microsoft announced that the latest Windows 11 update (23H2) will bring more support for passkeys and several new security features. Eduard KovacsSeptember 26, 2023
Artificial Intelligence Microsoft AI Researchers Expose 38TB of Data, Including Keys, Passwords and Internal Messages Exposed data includes backup of employees workstations, secrets, private keys, passwords, and over 30,000 internal Microsoft Teams messages. Ryan NaraineSeptember 18, 2023