6 yr. ago
Call for Papers | Microsoft BlueHat Shanghai 2019
The Microsoft Security Response Center MSRC recently announced our first BlueHat security conference in Shanghai which will take place on May 29-30, 2019. After 15 years of BlueHat events in Redmond, Washington and Israel, we are thrilled to expand to a new location. We work with many talented security researchers. https://msrc.microsoft.com...#microsoft
8 yr. ago
Microsoft BlueHat v17 Dates Announced - Update 4/3/2017
Update - The Call For Papers CFP for BlueHat v17 will be held from 612017 - 8182017. We will be setting up a submissions portal for web based submissions of papers. The portal will be live on 612017. Please do not send submissions to bluehatmicrosoft.com.Microsoft is pleased to announce that the dates for BlueHat v17 have been set for November 8-9, 2017, here in Redmond, WA USA.. https://msrc.microsoft.com...
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10 yr. ago
Announcing BlueHat v15 Conference
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 Microsofts 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.. https://msrc.microsoft.com...#microsoft
12 yr. ago
Preparing for Live Pwnage: Mitigation Bypass Bounty Machine Specs for Black Hat
With about one week to go before we all gather at Black Hat in Las Vegas, were getting inquiries about precisely how the promised Live Mitigation Bypass Bounty judging at Black Hat will work. For most of the world, it works best when you get a good spot at the Microsoft booth 301 around noon each day, so you can clearly see the excitement as some of securitys best and brightest look to pop built-in Windows 8.. https://msrc.microsoft.com...#microsoft #microsoft_bluehat
12 yr. ago
Attention Bounty Hunters – The Ramp Up to Black Hat
Were three weeks into our new world of bounties for Microsoft products now, and as the clock ticks down on one program, were prepping for some live excitement with one of the others.First, the Internet Explorer 11 Preview Bounty is entering its final 10 days; the bounty period for that program closes on the 26th of July.. https://msrc.microsoft.com...
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12 yr. ago
Filling A Gap In the Vulnerability Market – First Bounty Notification
When Microsoft decided to offer not one but three new bounties, paying outside researchers directly for security research on some of our latest products, we put a lot of thought into developing those bounty programs. We developed a customized set of programs designed to create a win-win between the security researcher community and Microsofts customers, by focusing on key data about what researchers were doing with vulnerabilities they found in our products.. https://msrc.microsoft.com...#microsoft #microsoft_bluehat
12 yr. ago
New Bounty Programs – One Week In
Two weeks ago, Microsoft made an important evolutionary step in our work with the security community when we announced our first-ever bounty programs for security issues. One week ago, the Windows 8.1 Preview and Internet Explorer 11 Preview became available for download, and the doors officially opened for bounty-eligible submissions to secure at Microsoft dot com.. https://msrc.microsoft.com...#microsoft #microsoft_bluehat
12 yr. ago
Doors Open for New Bounty Programs
As we announced last week, Microsoft is now offering 100,000 bounties for new exploitation techniques that can bypass our latest platform-wide defenses and up to 50,000 bonus bounties for defense ideas. Were also offering from now until July 26 bounties of up to 11,000 for critical security issues in Internet Explorer 11 Preview.. https://msrc.microsoft.com...#microsoft #microsoft_bluehat
12 yr. ago
Heart of Blue Gold – Announcing New Bounty Programs
Our PhilosophyAt the heart of our community outreach programs, weve always had the same philosophy: help increase the win-win between Microsofts customers and the security research community. We have evolved and deepened our relationships with this community since the earliest days of Microsofts outreach. In the early 2000s, Microsoft had to go through what I call the five stages of vulnerability response grief.. https://msrc.microsoft.com...
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12 yr. ago
Microsoft is sponsoring the Cyber Security Challenge UK
The global adoption of computing continues to draw attackers toward ever-richer targets. The latest data from the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report shows that although industry-wide vulnerability disclosures are down and computer defenses are improved, exploit activity has actually increased in many parts of the world. See the Microsoft Security Intelligent Report SIR v14 for more details.. https://msrc.microsoft.com...#microsoft #microsoft_bluehat
12 yr. ago
Nine to tide you over: Video highlights from BlueHat v12
It has been nearly four months since we gathered in Redmond for BlueHat v12, and weve almost caught up on our sleep. As we prepare for what promises to be a momentous year for the BlueHat program culminating in December with BlueHat v13 weve selected nine of the most compelling, talked-about, or just plain chewy talks from last years festivities to share with you.. https://msrc.microsoft.com...#microsoft #microsoft_bluehat
12 yr. ago
On the Shoulders of Blue Giants
Handle: k8eIRL: Katie Moussouris
Rank: Senior Security Strategist Lead, Head of Microsofts Security Community and Strategy Team
Likes: Cool vulns, BlueHat, soldering irons, quantum teleportation
Dislikes: Rudeness, socks-n-sandals, licorice
BlueHat v12 here in Redmond is in full swing it started yesterday for full-time Microsoft employees only, and continues today as we welcome our invited guests from beyond Microsoft.. https://msrc.microsoft.com...
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12 yr. ago
Announcing BlueHat v12
The days are getting shorter, the holidays are getting nearer, and looming on the horizon are a trio of 12s its almost time for the 12th BlueHat Conference, on tap for the twelfth month of 2012. We have a terrific lineup of speakers from both inside and outside the company; theres nothing much we can do about the weather in Seattle in mid-December, but indoors we have compelling work to do on making the cloud, mobile devices, the Internet, and the rest of the computing ecosystem, safer for customers.. https://msrc.microsoft.com...#microsoft #microsoft_bluehat
12 yr. ago
BlueHat: Something Old, Something New, All Blue
Handle: k8eIRL: Katie Moussouris
Rank: Senior Security Strategist Lead, Head of Microsofts Security Community and Strategy Team
Likes: Cool vulns, BlueHat, soldering irons, quantum teleportation
Dislikes: Rudeness, socks-n-sandals, licorice
Reflecting on my past five years at Microsoft I know How time flies, I can see with fresh perspective just how far weve come, while staying true to our goals of helping to protect customers and the computing ecosystem.. https://msrc.microsoft.com...
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13 yr. ago
The BlueHat Prize V1.0 – And the Winners Are…
Handle: k8eIRL: Katie Moussouris
Rank: Senior Security Strategist Lead, Head of Microsofts Security Community and Strategy Team
Likes: Cool vulns, BlueHat, soldering irons, quantum teleportation
Dislikes: Rudeness, socks-n-sandals, licorice
As we wrap up the first BlueHat Prize contest, we wanted to share what we learned while running the first competition, from a major vendor, offering a large cash prize for defensive security research.. https://msrc.microsoft.com...
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13 yr. ago
The BlueHat Prize Survey at BlackHat – Submit Security Defense Questions for a Chance to Win $5000
Handle: k8eIRL: Katie Moussouris
Rank: Senior Security Strategist Lead, Head of Microsofts Security Community and Strategy Team
Likes: Cool vulns, BlueHat, soldering irons, quantum teleportation
Dislikes: Rudeness, socks-n-sandals, licorice
As we inch closer to Black Hat in Vegas this year, we wanted to kick off the ten-day countdown to our first BlueHat Prize contest winners announcement with an invitation to those attending Black Hat.. https://msrc.microsoft.com...
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13 yr. ago
BlueHat Prize v1.0 Finalists – One of These People Will Win $200,000 (AKA Mad Loot)!
Handle: k8eIRL: Katie Moussouris
Rank: Senior Security Strategist Lead, Head of Microsofts Security Community and Strategy Team
Likes: Cool vulns, BlueHat, soldering irons, quantum teleportation
Dislikes: Rudeness, socks-n-sandals, licorice
When we announced the BlueHat Prize on August 3, 2011, we did something that no major vendor had ever done before offer a large cash prize for defensive security research.. https://msrc.microsoft.com...
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13 yr. ago
Inside the MAPP program
Handle: ClusterIRL: Maarten Van Horenbeeck
Rank: Senior Program Manager
Likes: Slicing covert channels, foraging in remote memory pools, and setting off page faults
Dislikes: The crackling sound of crypto breaking, warm vodka martni
Hi everyone,
Maarten here - my team manages the Microsoft Active Protections Program MAPP at Microsoft.. https://msrc.microsoft.com...
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13 yr. ago
BlueHat Prize entries: The final tally is…
Handle: k8eIRL: Katie Moussouris
Rank: Senior Security Strategist Lead, Head of Microsofts Security Community and Strategy Team
Likes: Cool vulns, BlueHat, soldering irons, quantum teleportation
Dislikes: Rudeness, socks-n-sandals, licorice
The entries are in After a last-minute wave of fresh entries to the first-ever BlueHat Prize, the final count for this years contest stands at twenty qualified proposals.. https://msrc.microsoft.com...
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13 yr. ago
Peace Games - BlueHat Prize Update and Countdown
Handle: k8eIRL: Katie Moussouris
Rank: Senior Security Strategist Lead, Head of Microsofts Security Community and Strategy Team
Likes: Cool vulns, BlueHat, soldering irons, quantum teleportation
Dislikes: Rudeness, socks-n-sandals, licorice
In the film WarGames, an artificial intelligence program named Joshua asked the main character, a teenage hacker, the now famous question, Shall we play a game. https://msrc.microsoft.com...
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13 yr. ago
Blue Dawn
Handle: k8eIRL: Katie Moussouris
Rank: Senior Security Strategist Lead, Head of Microsofts Security Community and Strategy Team
Likes: Cool vulns, BlueHat, soldering irons, quantum teleportation
Dislikes: Rudeness, socks-n-sandals, licorice
In the film Red Dawn,the United States was invaded by Communists, forcing ordinary citizens and soldiers alike to take up arms and fight for their freedom.. https://msrc.microsoft.com...
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13 yr. ago
BlueHat v11
Jeremiah Grossman here. BlueHat is one of my favorite conferences of the year, and its one of the few Ive consistently kept coming back to. The organizers put together an amazing event with consistently top-quality content, where the attendees are not only security people, but a legion of software developers who have a genuine interest in security ndash; because their employer Microsoft does.. https://msrc.microsoft.com...#microsoft #microsoft_bluehat
13 yr. ago
Beliefs from an Ex-softy
Jared Pfost here. Irsquo;m fired up to present at BlueHat. I really appreciate Noelle reaching out so it was a no brainer when asked to spin up a blog post. One thing that keeps popping up is my status as a former blue badge. Actually Irsquo;m a former twice over. One tour pre bubble and one post, or I like to think of it as prepost the TWC memo.. https://msrc.microsoft.com...#microsoft #microsoft_bluehat
13 yr. ago
Evolving to meet future challenges
Growth and change can come in big doses or small increments. That can be professional or organizational growth or technical or societal change. Since we started doing BlueHat waaay back in 2005, Ive seen some significant change at Microsoft, experienced a fair bit of professional and personal growth, and witnessed stunning technical and social change.. https://msrc.microsoft.com...#microsoft #microsoft_bluehat
14 yr. ago
Announcing BlueHat v11: We fight for the user!
It seems like we only just had BlueHat v10, but already BlueHat v11 is less than a month away. Our schedule is ready, the banners are printed, and now seems like a great time to give some more detail on whats coming up.As you probably know already, BlueHat is an invitation-only conference where security experts get to mingle with Microsofts own security team and core product groups.. https://msrc.microsoft.com...
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14 yr. ago
From Bounties to the BlueHat Prize – Evolutionary Thinking in Valuing Security Research
Handle: k8eIRL: Katie Moussouris
Rank: Senior Security Strategist Lead, Head of Microsofts Security Community and Strategy Team
Likes: Cool vulns, BlueHat, soldering irons, quantum teleportation
Dislikes: Rudeness, socks-n-sandals, licorice
Today on the MSRC blog, Matt Thomlinson announced the BlueHat Prize, the first and largest incentive prize Microsoft has ever offered to seek out and reward new ideas in computer security defense.. https://msrc.microsoft.com...
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14 yr. ago
Building a safe internet... together!
Handle: ClusterIRL: Maarten Van Horenbeeck
Rank: Senior Program Manager
Likes: Slicing covert channels, foraging in remote memory pools, and setting off page faults
Dislikes: The crackling sound of crypto breaking, warm vodka martni
Hi everyone,
Together with my colleagues Jeff Williams and Holly Stewart from the Microsoft Malware Protection Center MMPC I am here at the 23rd Annual FIRST conference in Vienna, Austria this week.. https://msrc.microsoft.com...
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14 yr. ago
Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure Reloaded
Today on the MSRC Blog, Matt Thomlinson announced three new efforts to provide more transparency into Microsofts vulnerability disclosure process. These included a Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure CVD at Microsoft procedures document, the first release of MSVR Advisories on vulnerabilities that were discovered by Microsoft and fixed by affected vendors, and an internal employee disclosure policy.. https://msrc.microsoft.com...#microsoft #microsoft_bluehat
14 yr. ago
Behind the Curtain of Second Tuesdays
Handle: Mando PickerIRL: Dustin Childs
Rank: Security Program Manager
Likes: Protecting customers, working with security researchers, second Tuesdays, bourbon, mandolins
Dislikes: Using ldquo;Itrsquo;s hardrdquo; as an excuse, quitting when it gets tough, banjos
Hello All,
I enjoy telling stories. Perhaps, in a former life, I spent time as a bard telling stories of Robin Hood and Maid Marian as I travelled from town to town.. https://msrc.microsoft.com...
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14 yr. ago
Hack.lu: Why it’s all about building bridges
Handle: ClusterIRL: Maarten Van Horenbeeck
Rank: Senior Program Manager
Likes: Slicing covert channels, foraging in remote memory pools, and setting off page faults
Dislikes: The crackling sound of crypto breaking, warm vodka martni
We want to remain what we are Mir wlle bleiwe wat mir sinn is the national motto of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.. https://msrc.microsoft.com...
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