Friday, June 16, 2006
Hi everyone. Stephen Toulouse here. As we do every month, after release the Customer Support Service Group, the MSRC, and the affected product groups all monitor uptake of the updates and keep a sharp eye out for any issues that might be causing problems. There were 12 updates this month and of course we’ve been watching closely for signs of problems.
Friday, June 16, 2006
Hey everyone, Mike Reavey here again. We’re headed into the weekend and I wanted to check in and provide you with some more information about the Excel issue we are investigating. As of right now it’s still just a single customer impacted. But I want to reiterate that all of our various protection tools detect this malware and remove it.
Thursday, June 15, 2006
You asked for it. You got it. In addition to inviting a number of community members this year we also had channel 9 come to BlueHat and they created a video for your viewing pleasure. The 39 minute video contains interviews with the presenters talking about their presentations, background and research.
Thursday, June 15, 2006
Hi everyone, Mike Reavey here. We’ve received a single report from a customer being impacted by an attack using a new vulnerability in Microsoft Excel. Here’s what we know: In order for this attack to be carried out, a user must first open a malicious Excel document that is sent as an email attachment or otherwise provided to them by an attacker.
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Hi everyone, Craig Gehre here. It was tempting to make some sort of Cheaper by the Dozen reference or perhaps quote something from The Dirty Dozen, but I feel it would have been a bit obvious. I’ll just keep my comments short so you can get on to more exciting things like reading the below bulletins.
Sunday, June 11, 2006
Hello, this is Christopher Budd. I’m here this evening at TechEd 2006. This year, TechEd is in Boston, Massachusetts at the Boston Convention Center. (If you want to see where we are using the new Windows Live Local, you can see a view of it here). I’m sure you know from our RSA postings that we love the chance to get out and meet and talk with customers.
Friday, June 09, 2006
Hi everyone, Stephen Toulouse here. As you probably know, all throughout the year we attend various security researcher conferences all over the world. One of the biggest and the best is the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas. And of course the MSRC, as well as a number of other Microsoft teams, will be down there this August.
Thursday, June 08, 2006
This is Christopher Budd. I wanted to take a moment from my preparations for TechEd next week to let you know that we made our regular advance notificationfor the upcoming monthly security bulletin release next week: At approximately 10:00 am PT next Tuesday, June 13th 2006, we are planning to release a total of twelve security bulletins.
Thursday, June 08, 2006
Christopher Budd here again. I wanted to take a moment and mention a couple of things related to security updates and Microsoft Windows 98, Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition (SE), and Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition (ME). First, support for Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, and Windows Millennium Edition (Me) ends on July 11, 2006, which is the July 2006 Monthly Bulletin Release date.
Friday, June 02, 2006
Hi everyone. It’s Stephen Toulouse again. We’re of course still hard at work on an update for the Word vulnerability. All indications still point to this being a very limited, targeted attack but we’re still spending a lot of time thinking about how customers can protect themselves from this vulnerability. Today we’ve made a couple of minor changes to the advisory we posted on this issue to provide more clarity on the workarounds.
