Tuesday, January 12, 2016
Introduction Both Internet Explorer (IE) and Edge have seen significant changes in order to help protect customers from security threats. This work has featured a number of mitigations that together have not only rendered classes of vulnerabilities not-exploitable, but also dramatically raised the cost for attackers to develop a working exploit.
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:
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.
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.
Tuesday, August 11, 2015
Introduction Today Microsoft released update MS15-085 to address CVE-2015-1769, an important severity security issue in Mount Manager. It affects both client and server versions, from Windows Vista to Windows 10. The goal of this blog post is to provide information on the detection guidance to help defenders detect attempts to exploit this issue.
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).
Monday, March 16, 2015
Today, we’re releasing the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) 5.2, which includes increased security protections to improve your security posture. You can download EMET 5.2 from microsoft.com/emet or directly from here. Following is the list of the main changes and improvements: Control Flow Guard: EMET’s native DLLs have been compiled with Control Flow Guard (CFG).
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
Today we are releasing MS15-011 & MS15-014 which harden group policy and address network access vulnerabilities that can be used to achieve remote code execution (RCE) in domain networks. The MS15-014 update addresses an issue in Group Policy update which can be used to disable client-side global SMB Signing requirements, bypassing an existing security feature built into the product.
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
Today Microsoft released update MS14-068 to address CVE-2014-6324, a Windows Kerberos implementation elevation of privilege vulnerability that is being exploited in-the-wild in limited, targeted attacks. The goal of this blog post is to provide additional information about the vulnerability, update priority, and detection guidance for defenders. Microsoft recommends customers apply this update to their domain controllers as quickly as possible.
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Today we released fourteen security bulletins addressing 33 unique CVE’s. Four bulletins have a maximum severity rating of Critical, eight have a maximum severity rating of Important, and two have a maximum severity rating of Moderate. This table is designed to help you prioritize the deployment of updates appropriately for your environment.
