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MS08-075: Reducing attack surface by turning off protocol handlers

Tuesday, December 09, 2008

Today Microsoft released a security update, MS08-075, that fixes a vulnerability in Windows Explorer in Vista and Server 2008 that was exposed through the search-ms protocol handler. This is a remote unauthenticated vulnerability that requires user interaction, so we wanted to give you a bit more information about protocol handlers and how you can reduce your attack surface by turning off any protocol handlers you don’t intend to use.

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MS08-076: Windows Media Components: Part 1 of 2

Tuesday, December 09, 2008

Today we released MS08-076, which addresses two flaws in the Windows Media components: Windows Media Player, Windows Media Format Runtime, and Windows Media Services. Viewed separately, the issues are not that severe and the aggregate severity rating is Important at most. However, if the two issues are combined the impact can be quite severe, with the potential for Remote Code Execution.

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December 2008 Advanced Notification

Thursday, December 04, 2008

Hello, Bill here. I wanted to let you know that we just posted our Advance Notification for next week’s bulletin release which will occur on Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2008 around 10 a.m. Pacific Standard Time. It is important to remember that while the information posted below is intended to help with your planning, because it is preliminary information, it is subject to change.

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MS08-067 Update: November 25

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Hi, this is Bill Sisk A while back we discussed the fact that we’re likely to see new pieces of malware over the coming weeks that exploit the vulnerability resolved in MS08-067. Recently we’ve received a string of reports from customers that have yet to apply the update and are infected by malware.

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Good Things Come in Blue Packages

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Hello everyone, Celene Temkin here from the MSRC Ecosystem Strategy Team. BlueHat v8: C3P0wned ended a month ago and the success of the con lives on in the outstanding training and networking done between Microsoft employees and external speakers and guests. I’m happy to say the speaker video interviews, podcasts, anecdotes and archives are live on the BlueHat TechNet Page.

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Monthly Security Bulletin Webcast Q&A – November, 2008

Friday, November 14, 2008

Register now for the December 2008Security Bulletin Webcast Security Bulletin Webcast Q&A Index Hosts: Christopher Budd, Security Response Communications Lead Adrian Stone, Lead Security Program Manager (MSRC) Website: TechNet/security Chat Topic: November 2008 Security Bulletin Date: Wednesday, November 11, 2008 Q: Along with the expected updates, my Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) servers picked up KB948110, an update for SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 4, during the same sync on Wednesday morning.

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