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Month Archives: February 2009

Conficker Domain Information

Thursday, February 12, 2009

I wanted to follow up our recent Conficker post from last Friday where we posted new pages to consolidate our information on Conficker for enterprises and consumers. We’ve also made the easy-to-remember URL www.microsoft.com/conficker available that will take you directly to the Conficker page for enterprises. We’ve shared some additional information today with our Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP) partners and our Microsoft Security Response Alliance (MSRA) partners.

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Chills and Thrills at FIRST

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Sveika! Hey Steve here, been a while since I posted on the EcoStrat blog. With all the security events that happened during the latter half of 2008, I have been very focused on working with the security update releases and Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP). Handle: Cap’n Steve IRL: Steve Adegbite

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February 2009 Monthly Bulletin Release

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Today we’re releasing four new security bulletins as part of our regular monthly release process. · MS09-002 rated Critical that addresses two code execution vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. · MS09-003 rated Critical that addresses one code execution vulnerability and one denial of service vulnerability in Exchange Server. · MS09-004 rated Important that addresses one code execution vulnerability in SQL Server.

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New Information Pages on Conficker

Friday, February 06, 2009

Very briefly, I wanted to let everyone know that based on customer request, we’ve posted two new pages that provide information you can use to protect against and remove Conficker. These pages consolidate information that we have related to the Conficker incident and provide links to the other, more detailed resources like the Microsoft Malware Protection Center weblog and encyclopedia.

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February 2009 Advanced Notification

Thursday, February 05, 2009

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, Feb. 10, 2009 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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Gone is the era of yes/no questions

Wednesday, February 04, 2009

It used to be easy to be in the security industry. All you had to do is develop products that needed to say “nay” or “yay” on a given content and “bless” it to be secure or not. That is so 2007… As we have been witnessing during a turbulent 2008 (and yes – it actually started in 2007…) nowadays the ability to decide whether a given content (note the distinction between content and file…) is malicious or not is much more complicated.

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