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Monthly Security Bulletin Webcast Q&A - June 2009

Friday, June 12, 2009

Hosts: Adrian Stone, Senior Security Program Manager Lead Jerry Bryant, Senior Security Program Manager Lead Website: TechNet/security Chat Topic: June 2009 Security Bulletin Date: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 Q: For security update for Microsoft Excel 2000 ( KB969683), is Microsoft Office Excel 2000 Service Pack 3 the only version that is vulnerable, or is that the only version of Office that is supported and therefore the only one that the security update will work for?

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Security Bulletin Webcast Video, Questions and Answers – June 2009

Friday, June 12, 2009

During the security bulletin webcast for June 2009, we answered a wide array of questions around the 10 bulletins we released. Of primary interest to customers, based on the number of questions we received on the topic, is the RPC issue addressed by MS09-026. As this issue affects third party products that utilize RPC in Windows, customers wanted to know if there is a way to tell if their third party product was vulnerable.

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Understanding DEP as a mitigation technology part 2

Friday, June 12, 2009

In our previous blog post, we explained how DEP works and how to determine if / how a process opted-in to DEP. Now we will demonstrate how DEP can be used to mitigate the risk of a real-world attack. We published a security advisory in February describing an Excel vulnerability in fully-patched Excel being used in limited targeted attacks.

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A Brussels retrospective from Oahu

Thursday, June 11, 2009

** Handle:** Security Blanki IRL: Sarah Blankinship Rank: Senior Security Strategist Lead Likes: Vuln wrangling, teams of rivals, global climate change - the hotter the better Dislikes: Slack jawed gawkers (girls are geeks too!), customers @ risk, egos Aloha from the Shakacon III, a security conference held each year in lovely Honolulu, Hawaii!

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June 2009 Bulletin Release

Tuesday, June 09, 2009

Summary of Microsoft’s monthly security bulletin release for June 2009. Today we released 10 new security bulletins. 6 of those affect Windows with two rated as critical, three rated as important and one as moderate. The remaining four all have an aggregate rating of critical and affect Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft Office Excel and Microsoft Works Converters.

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MS09-019 (CVE-2009-1140): Benefits of IE Protected Mode, additional Network Protocol Lockdown workaround

Tuesday, June 09, 2009

Benefits of IE Protected Mode One of the vulnerabilities addressed in MS09-019, CVE-2009-1140, involves navigating to a local file via a UNC path, ex: \\127.0.0.1\c$. This roundabout way of navigating to a file is necessary to execute local content such that it runs in the Internet Explorer Internet zone, where scripting is enabled.

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