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Link Removed In 2018 The Microsoft Bounty Program awarded over $2,000,000 to encourage and reward external security research in key technologies to protect our customers. Building on that success, we are excited to announce a number of improvements in our bounty programs to better serve the...

The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) is pleased to announce the launch of the Link Removed program, a program dedicated to providing rock-solid security for our DevOps customers. Starting January 17, 2019, we’re excited to offer rewards up to US$20,000 for eligible vulnerabilities in...

What do to protect your identity online? What's your threat model? How did you come up with your threat model? What are your primary concerns with your information being online and the online services and apps you use? How do you protect yourself online? Do you use Gmail or Protonmail? Do you...

For the second in this series of blog entries we want to look into which vulnerability reports make it into the monthly release cadence. It may help to start with some history. In September 2003 we made a change from a release anytime approach to a mostly predictable, monthly release cadence...

This is the first of a series of blog entries to give some insight into the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) business and how we work with security researchers and vulnerability reports. The Microsoft Security Response Center actively recognizes those security researchers who help us...

So just thought I'd share that I'm going to use Tor browser for 30 days on my laptop and phone :nerves: I want to see if I can do all the usual web surfing and use the same services I'd normally use with Firefox of Chrome. And maybe I can post my questions about any problems I might encounter...

Microsoft strives to protect our customers and we’re constantly improving our security posture to meet their needs. We realize the desire of researchers and customers to security test our services to ensure they can trust us and our solutions. We also believe that if a researcher informs us of a...

At Microsoft, we continue to add new properties to our security bug bounty programs to help keep our customer’s secure. Today, I’m pleased to announce the addition of Microsoft OneDrive to the Microsoft Online Services Bug Bounty Program. This addition further incentivizes security researchers...

Microsoft has updated their Translator application for Windows 10. It now provides translation services for 50 languages online and 16 offline. read more Continue reading...

I am very pleased to be releasing additional expansions of the Link Removed. Please stop by the Microsoft Networking Lounge at Black Hat, August 5-6, to learn more about these programs; or, visit Link Removed. We are raising the Bounty for Defense maximum from $50,000 USD to $100,000 USD. I am...

This week, the horse left the proverbial barn, ladies and gentlemen, and now Microsoft, Google, Apple, Dropbox, Box.net, and a large number of other companies are competing in an arena that will help you backup and synchronize your files, forever, if you so desire, online, and at the lowest...

I have reserved a great deal of time not passing judgement on Windows 8, but so far I am not as enthused as, perhaps, I should be. This is not to say that I have given up on Windows 8, but for me, the Consumer Preview just isn't doing it. The main problem, of course, for me, and I suspect many...

Microsoft’s online gaming platform, Xbox LIVE, will soon be standard on every PC. The software giant has just revealed that its Xbox LIVE service will be built-in to Windows 8. The platform is already integrated with Windows Phone and with this new development could mean that Xbox LIVE becomes...

Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Services-Federal product has Link Removed due to 404 Error from the federal government under the Federal Information Security Management Act, a bit of news that would have meant nothing to more than a handful of folks who follow the arcana of such things...

Google's decision to transition its applications to Web standards offers telling insight into the HTML5 standardization process Google technologies are known for their extended beta test periods -- so much so that when the search giant actually ships a finished product it's front page news. But...

Microsoft posted strong quarterly revenues off sales of Kinect and other products, but faces challenges in online services. Net income totaled $6.63 billion. Link Removed

Hi all! My name is Ann and I just joined the forum, I’m also a new comer to computer and network cable installation. I’m still trying to understand it all and our little company (just me and my husband) is still navigating through all the different ways to approach the industry. It’s a tough...

Link Removed Windows 7 and overall PC growth buoyed Microsoft’s third-quarter FY 2010 earnings of $14.5 billion and .45 per share. As many news outlets and bloggers have reported, approximately 10 percent of PCs are now running Windows 7. Microsoft officials are crowing that “the business PC...

Link Removed due to 404 Error Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT) fiscal third-quarter profit grew 35% as the software giant benefited from a strong response from the release of the company's Windows 7 operating system. "Business customers are beginning to refresh their desktops and the momentum of...

Microsoft is Link Removed at a rapid clip, as part of the company’s stated mission to introduce a cloud version and/or cloud components of all of its existing software products. While Microsoft does share some information about what’s inside these datacenters, the company seldom provides an...