“There are few jobs where I can say, I make two billion people more secure on the internet every single day.”
Childhood Look: Goth kid, all in black
Current Look: Cyber Viking
Childhood hobby: Head banging to Metallica, Marilyn Manson, and Guns N’ Roses
Current hobby: n0x08 DJ’s Live events around the world.
Year: 2022
Expanding the Microsoft Researcher Recognition Program
The Microsoft Researcher Recognition Program offers public thanks and recognition to security researchers who help protect our customers through discovering and sharing security vulnerabilities under Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure.
Today, we are expanding the program to recognize more security researchers in more ways for their contributions to protecting customers, and we published the first new leaderboard on our program page.
Congratulations to the Top MSRC 2021 Q4 Security Researchers!
Congratulations to all the researchers recognized in this quarter’s Microsoft Researcher Recognition Program leaderboard! Thank you to everyone for your hard work and continued partnership to secure customers.
The top three researchers of the 2021 Q4 Security Researcher Leaderboard are: rezer0dai (780 points) , Callum Carney (750 points) , and wtm (615 points) !
An Armful of CHERIs
Today, Arm announced that the first silicon supporting the Morello prototype architecture, a research project led by Arm, Microsoft, University of Cambridge and others, is now available on a limited run of demonstration boards, which are being shipped from today to industry partners for testing. Morello is the first high-performance implementation of the CHERI extensions.
Coming Soon: New Security Update Guide Notification System
Sharing information through the Security Update Guide is an important part of our ongoing effort to help customers manage security risks and keep systems protected. Based on your feedback we have been working to make signing up for and receiving Security Update Guide notifications easier. We are excited to share that starting today, you can sign up with any email address that you want and receive notifications at that email address.