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2009

Announcing BlueHat v9: Through the Looking Glass

Sunday, September 13, 2009

Handle: C-Lizzle IRL: Celene Temkin Rank: Program Manager 2 & BlueHat Project Manager Likes: Culinary warfare, BlueHat hackers and responsible disclosure Dislikes: Acts of hubris, MySpace, orange mocha Frappaccinos! BlueHat v9 will take place from October 21 to 23 at the Microsoft campus in Redmond. Last year, we experimented with a day dedicated to attacks and a day dedicated to SDL security mitigations.

AutoPlay Windows 7 behavior backported

Friday, September 11, 2009

Back in April we talked about the Windows 7 improvements in AutoPlay that disables certain functionality which has been abused by malware (like Conficker). We also mentioned that these changes will be backported to down level platforms. On August 25th this functionality was made available for Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, please visit the following KB article for more information and how to download the updates http://support.

September 2009 Security Bulletin Webcast Video and Customer Q and A

Friday, September 11, 2009

In the September 2009 security bulletin webcast, it was clear that customers had a lot of concerns about MS09-048 as almost half the questions we answered were on that topic. The questions and answers from the session are now posted here on the blog. As we mentioned in the webcast, The MS09-048 bulletin has been updated to call out Windows XP in the affected products list with a severity rating of low for the two Denial-of-Service vulnerabilities (the third, Remote Code Execution vulnerability, does not affect XP).

Monthly Security Bulletin Webcast Q&A - September 2009

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Hosts: Adrian Stone, Senior Security Program Manager Lead Jerry Bryant, Senior Security Program Manager Lead Website: TechNet/security Chat Topic: September 2009 Security Bulletin Date: Wednesday, September 9, 2009 Q: For MS09-048 how do we mitigate this with Windows 2000 Server since Microsoft will not be producing a patch? Do we have any prescriptive guidance?

Assessing the risk of the September Critical security bulletins

Tuesday, September 08, 2009

This morning we released five security bulletins, all of them having a bulletin maximum severity rating of Critical and two having a bulletin maximum exploitability index rating of “1” (Consistent exploit code likely). We wanted to just say a few words about each bulletin to help you prioritize your deployment this month.

Microsoft Security Advisory 975497 Released

Tuesday, September 08, 2009

We’ve just released Microsoft released Security Advisory 975497 that provides information about a new, irresponsibly reported vulnerability in SMB 2.0. Our investigation has shown that Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 RC are affected by this vulnerability. Windows 7 RTM, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows XP and Windows 2000 are not affected by this vulnerability.

September 2009 Security Bulletin Release

Tuesday, September 08, 2009

Summary of Microsoft’s Security Bulletin Release for September 2009 Hello again, This month we released five critical bulletins to address vulnerabilities in Windows and protect customers from two types of threats: 1. Browser based attacks where websites hosting malicious code attempt to compromise visitors. This includes MS09-045, MS09-046 and MS09-047.