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Month Archives: September 2010

MS10-065: Exploitability of the IIS FastCGI request header vulnerability

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

This month, Microsoft released an update for IIS that addresses three vulnerabilities. The blog post focuses on one of these: the Request Header Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (CVE-2010-2730), which affects IIS version 7.5 and has a maximum security impact of Remote Code Execution (RCE). Below we provide more details on the vulnerability and the potential for reliable remote code execution, to assist with assessing risk and prioritizing deployment of the update.

September 2010 Security Bulletin Release

Monday, September 13, 2010

Hi everyone, With this month’s bulletin release, I want to highlight the great work done through our partnerships in the Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP). MAPP represents our commitment to community based defense and a shared sense of responsibility to help protect the computing ecosystem. In July of this year, the Stuxnet malware emerged onto the threat landscape and resulted in the release of an out-of-band security update, MS10-046, to address a zero-day vulnerability the malware used to compromise systems.

Announcing BlueHat v10: A Security Odyssey

Friday, September 10, 2010

BlueHat v10 is on the horizon and I’m happy to be able to announce the lineup. This year we’ll be hosting our annual conference on October 13-15 at the Microsoft campus here in Redmond and, with the success of last year’s con, we’re working overtime to make it the most robust, top-notch BlueHat yet.

September 2010 Bulletin Release Advance Notification

Thursday, September 09, 2010

Hello - Today we’re releasing our Advance Notification Service (ANS) for the September Security Bulletins, which are scheduled for release Tuesday, September 14, 2010. This is a service we provide to help enterprises plan and prepare for the upcoming security bulletin release. This month we will be releasing 9 bulletins addressing 13 11 vulnerabilities affecting Windows, Internet Information Services (IIS), and Microsoft Office.

The Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit 2.0 is Now Available

Thursday, September 02, 2010

Today we are pleased to announce the availability of the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) version 2.0. Users can click here to download the tool free of charge. For those who may be unfamiliar with the tool, EMET provides users with the ability to deploy security mitigation technologies to arbitrary applications.