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Microsoft has announced a new bug bounty program aimed at unearthing vulnerabilities in Defender-related products and services, and is offering participants the possibility to earn up to $20,000 for the most critical bugs. Microsoft Defender includes various products and services that are build to secure and protect Microsoft users.
Microsoft has unveiled a new bug bounty program aimed at the Microsoft Defender security platform, with rewards between $500 and $20,000.Currently, the Microsoft Defender Bounty Program is limited in scope and will focus solely on Microsoft Defender for Endpoint APIs.
Today’s security leaders must manage a constantly evolving attack surface and a dynamic threat environment due to interconnected devices, cloud services, IoT technologies, and hybrid work...
The feature aims to help organizations disrupt human-operated attacks like ransomware, business email compromise and adversary-in-the-middle, which start - more often than not - with compromised user accounts. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is Microsoft's enterprise extended detection and response solution that detects threats on networks and systems and allows organizations' security staff to investigate and respond to attacks.
Microsoft on Wednesday said that a user containment feature in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint helped thwart a "large-scale remote encryption attempt" made by Akira ransomware actors targeting an...
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint now uses automatic attack disruption to isolate compromised user accounts and block lateral movement in hands-on-keyboard attacks with the help of a new 'contain user' capability in public preview.According to Microsoft, Defender for Endpoint now prevents attackers' lateral movement attempts within victims' on-premises or cloud IT infrastructure by temporarily isolating the compromised user accounts they might exploit to achieve their objectives.
Recent versions of the TorBrowser, specifically because of the updated tor. Microsoft stated, "We've reviewed the submitted files and have determined that they do not fit our definitions of malware or unwanted applications. As such, we've removed the detection."
The OWASP API Security Project leaders had their work cut out when deciding how to group and prioritize the threats. It no longer makes sense to monitor for API attacks and bot attacks separately: bot mitigation has to become part of API security.
Security Onion is a free and open platform for threat hunting, enterprise security monitoring, and log management.It has been downloaded over 2 million times and is being used by security teams worldwide.
With Microsoft Defender for Cloud, cloud security posture management features are now available for Google Cloud Platform, as well as AWS and Azure. Almost 90% of enterprises use more than one public cloud provider, according to Flexera's 2023 State of the Cloud survey.