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Month Archives: February 2010

February 2010 Security Bulletin Webcast

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Hi everyone, As we do every month following our public webcast, we have posted the questions and answers (which you can find here) and the recorded webcast below. This month there were no particular themes that emerged in the questions. They ranged from wanting clarification of what it means when we say something is “public” to questions like “Will applying Enable_SSL_Renegotiate_Workaround.

Monthly Security Bulletin Webcast Q&A - February 2010

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Hosts: Adrian Stone, Senior Security Program Manager Lead Jerry Bryant, Senior Security Communications Manager Lead Website: TechNet/security Chat Topic: February 2010 Security Bulletin Release Date: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 Q: MS10-003 supersedes MS09-062 which was released for Windows in addition to Office. Does MS10-003 supersede only the Office XP components of MS09-062 or does it supersede all of MS09-062?

Restart issues after installing MS10-015

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Hi everyone, I am writing to let you know that we are aware that after installing the February security updates a limited number of users are experiencing issues restarting their computers. Our initial analysis suggests that the issue occurs after installing MS10-015 (KB977165). However, we have not confirmed that the issue is specific to MS10-015 or if it is an interoperability problem with another component or third-party software.

BlueHat Security Forum: Buenos Aires Edition

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

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! Hey Everyone! What speaks English, Portuguese and Spanish, has a hundred set of eyes, and battles in the defense of good against evil on a daily basis?

Assessing the risk of the February Security Bulletins

Tuesday, February 09, 2010

This morning, we released 13 security bulletins. Five have maximum severity rating of Critical, seven Important, and one Moderate. One security bulletin (MS10-015, ntvdm.dll) has exploit code already published, but we are not aware of any active attacks or customer impact. We hope that the table and commentary below helps you prioritize the deployment of the updates appropriately.

Details on the New TLS Advisory

Tuesday, February 09, 2010

Security Advisory 977377: Vulnerability in TLS Could Allow Spoofing In August of 2009, researchers at PhoneFactor discovered a vulnerability in the Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocols. As the issue is present in the actual TLS/SSL-standard, not only our implementation, Microsoft is working together with ICASI, the Industry Consortium for Advancement of Security on the Internet to address this vulnerability.

February 2010 Security Bulletin Release

Tuesday, February 09, 2010

MSRC Bulletin Release Blog Post Hi everyone, As mentioned in our ANS blog post last week, today we are releasing 13 bulletins addressing 26 vulnerabilities. 11 bulletins affect Windows and 2 affect older versions of Microsoft Office. In the post on Thursday, we mentioned that bulletins in the ANS listed as 1, 2, 3, and 6 were going to top our deployment priority list this month.