Wednesday, September 07, 2005
This is Mike Reavey here. It’s been a little bit quieter around the MSRC for the last week, but I thought I’d take a second now to point out a few things that you might not know exist. First off, I need to give a big shout out to the fact that the individuals responsible for creating and releasing Zotob have been arrested.
Friday, September 02, 2005
Hi Folks, – you may have noticed that we posted an advisory earlier this week: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/897663.mspx. This advisory discusses how a malformed registry key entry could allow an exception to be entered into the firewall, but this exception wouldn’t be visible in the standard firewall graphical user interfaces. In response to customer feedback and to clear up any confusion, we wanted to be explicit that in order for this type of action to happen a system would already have to be compromised and malicious code be running as an administrator.
Wednesday, August 17, 2005
Hi everyone, Mike Reavey here. I wanted to take a moment and blog live from our MSRC Situation Room. (those of you watching CNN this morning got a glimpse of it!) The Situation Room is a dedicated room inside the Microsoft campus. When there is a problem or an attack impacting customers, we bring all of the right people into that room to work on the problem.
Sunday, August 14, 2005
Ok, earlier this morning we activated our Software Security Incident Reponse Process to respond to a malicious attack known as Worm:Win32/Zotob.A. Our investigation has determined that only a small number of customers have been affected and we’re working directly with them. We have seen no indication of widespread impact to the Internet, but we have posted a guidance page as well as an encyclopedia entry on this attack.
Sunday, August 14, 2005
Hi everyone, Stephen Toulouse here. We now have reports of an attack against the MS05-039 vulnerability. We have updated our security advisory located at: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/899588.mspx To provide our initial information and guidance. More information shortly. S. \*This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.\*
Thursday, August 11, 2005
Hi everyone, Unfortunately it looks like someone has posted exploit code for MS05-039 publicly. Please be sure that you are deploying this update, Windows 2000 users are particularly at risk. We have posted a security advisory on this at the following link: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/899588.mspx S. \*This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
Thursday, August 11, 2005
Hey folks – Mike Reavey here, live from the situation room. (BTW- “live from the situation room” is a new favorite term ever since our big television debut this week!) I wanted to let you know that we published an advisory on a security issue in COM object, MSDDS.DLL, that when loaded in Internet Explorer could potentially run malicious code a system.
Wednesday, August 10, 2005
What a crazy 24 hours. We have now re-released MS05-038, the IE bulletin, as version 2.0. We have pushed out the updates to the Download Center with the digital signature issue resolved. If you got your updates from Windows Update, Microsoft Update, WSUS, or SUS yesterday you have nothing to worry about.
Tuesday, August 09, 2005
Much delayed post, but I’m sure some of you probably know or can take a good guess at what is causing my delay today. Not long after we released this morning, we found out that many of the digital signatures on some of the IE updates for MS05-038 were corrupted and were preventing install.
Friday, August 05, 2005
Hi everyone, Stephen Toulouse here. There’s been some commentary the past couple of days regarding a potential Windows Vista virus and we wanted to weigh in with some details. First of all, in examining the details of the reports, there is no Windows Vista virus described in them. Instead, the reports are regarding potential proof of concept viruses in the form of malicious scripts that are developed to affect a new interactive shell codenamed “Monad”, which is currently in early phase of beta testing.
