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2015

Advances in Scripting Security and Protection in Windows 10 and PowerShell V5

Wednesday, June 10, 2015

In the last several releases of Windows, we’ve been working hard to make the platform much more powerful for administrators, developers, and power users alike. PowerShell is an incredibly useful and powerful language for managing Windows domains. Unfortunately, attackers can take advantage of these same properties when performing “post-exploitation” activities (actions that are performed after a system has been compromised).

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June 2015 Updates

Tuesday, June 09, 2015

Today, as part of Update Tuesday, we released 8 security bulletins. We encourage customers to apply all of these updates. For more information about this month’s security updates, including the detailed view of the Exploitability Index (XI), visit the Microsoft Bulletin Summary webpage. If you are not familiar with how we calculate the XI, a full description can be found here.

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May 2015 Updates

Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Today, as part of Update Tuesday, we released 13 security bulletins. We encourage customers to apply all of these updates. For more information about this month’s security updates, including a detailed view of the Exploitability Index (XI), visit the Microsoft Bulletin Summary webpage. If you are not familiar with how we calculate the XI, a full description can be found here.

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Microsoft Bounty Programs Expansion – Azure and Project Spartan

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Update 2/22/17: Removed _Guest-to-Host DoS (non-distributed, from a single guest) _from Hyper-V escape bounty list. I am excited to announce significant expansions to the Microsoft Bounty Programs. We are evolving the ‘Online Services Bug Bounty, launching a new bounty for Project Spartan, and updating the Mitigation Bypass Bounty. This continued evolution includes additions to the Online Services Bug Bounty Program:

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