{"id":263957,"date":"2018-06-11T09:31:33","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T07:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=263957"},"modified":"2018-06-11T09:33:07","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T07:33:07","slug":"the-microsoft-red-team-which-attacks-windows-like-a-hacker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/263957-the-microsoft-red-team-which-attacks-windows-like-a-hacker.html","title":{"rendered":"The Microsoft Red Team which attacks Windows like a hacker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost four years ago, the principal security group manager for Windows, David Weston, pitched an idea for Microsoft to try a different approach to how it handled security, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/microsoft-windows-red-team\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wired reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, the company relied on bug bounties, community relationships, or attacks to see where it needed to build defences.<\/p>\n<p>Weston said he was tired of only responding to known issues, rather than discovering new ones.<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by his experience with whitehat hackers at events like Pwn2Own, he started a Red Team that would work as if there was a Windows hacking contest every day of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Among the security fixes the team has been involved in include Microsoft&#8217;s response to the disclosure of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/249683-intel-rolls-out-spectre-patches-for-7th-and-8th-gen-chips.html\">Spectre and Meltdown<\/a><\/strong>, as well as the leak of the\u00a0NSA&#8217;s Windows hacking tool &#8211;\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/211206-the-nsa-told-microsoft-about-eternalblue-hack-used-in-wannacry-report.html\">Eternal Blue<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The team also found and fixed previously-undisclosed security holes in the Win32k kernel-driver, an old and large attack surface for attackers.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/260653-big-windows-2018-update-all-the-new-features-tested.html\">Big Windows 2018 update \u2014 All the new features tested<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Weston pitched an idea for Microsoft to try a different approach to security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":193098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[123,51505,807],"class_list":["post-263957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-microsoft","tag-red-team","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263957"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263977,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263957\/revisions\/263977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}