Thursday, June 10, 2010
Hello - We have released Security Advisory 2219475, addressing the vulnerability in the Windows Help and Support Center function in Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. We are not aware of any active attacks at this time. Customers running Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 are not vulnerable to this issue or at risk of attack.
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Hello, We are aware of a publicly disclosed vulnerability affecting Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. We are not aware of any current exploitation of this issue and customers running Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Server 2008 R2, are not vulnerable to this issue, or at risk of attack.
Tuesday, June 08, 2010
Hi everyone, Today, as part of our regular monthly security bulletin release cycle, we released 10 bulletins to address 34 total vulnerabilities in Windows, Microsoft Office (including SharePoint), Internet Explorer (IE), Internet Information Services (IIS), and the .NET Framework. Only three of these bulletins get our maximum severity rating of Critical.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Handle: Cap’n Steve IRL: Steve Adegbite Rank: Senior Security Program Manager Lead Likes: Reverse Engineering an obscene amount of code and ripping it up on a snowboard Dislikes: Not much but if you hear me growl…run G’day Mate! I have always wanted to say that. I am here at the AusCERT 2010 conference in the beautiful Gold coast, Australia.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Hello. Today we released Security Advisory 983438, addressing a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in SharePoint Server 2007 and SharePoint Services 3.0 that could allow Elevation of Privilege (EoP) within the SharePoint site itself. Servers are at reduced risk from Internet Explorer 8 clients, as the Internet Explorer 8 XSS filter helps to mitigate the issue in the internet zone.
Monday, April 12, 2010
Handle: Jman IRL: Jerry Bryant Rank: Group Manager, Response Communications Likes: Quad lattes, geek toys, responsible disclosure Dislikes: Tomatoes, slow drivers (frontgaters) As a follow on to the WGA and Security Updates post by Dustin Childs, I wanted to address another common question we get regarding both security and non-security updates that customers receive from Microsoft through Windows Update or Microsoft Update.
Thursday, April 08, 2010
Hi everyone, Our ANS (Advance Notification Service) went out today informing customers that next Tuesday we will release 11 bulletins addressing 25 vulnerabilities in Windows, Microsoft Office, and Microsoft Exchange. We recommend that customers review the ANS summary page and prepare to test and deploy the bulletins as quickly as possible.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Hosts: Adrian Stone, Senior Security Program Manager Lead Jerry Bryant, Group Manager, Response Communications Website: TechNet/security Chat Topic: March 2010 Out-of-Band Security Bulletin Date: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 Q: CVE-2010-0483 , like CVE-2010-0806 , is a remote code executable vulnerability with an exploit code that has been published and publicly available since March 1, 2010.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Hi everyone, Today we released MS10-018 out-of-band due to increases in attacks against Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7 using the vulnerability discussed in Security Advisory 981374. I want to reiterate that Internet Explorer 8 is not affected by this issue so customers using this version are not affected by these attacks and we continue to encourage customers to upgrade to the newer version because it provides more security and protection.
Monday, March 29, 2010
Today we issued our Advanced Notification Service (ANS) to advise customers that we will be releasing security update MS10-018 tomorrow, March 30, 2010, at approximately10:00 a.m. PDT (UTC-8). MS10-018 resolves Security Advisory 981374, addressing a publicly disclosed vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7. Internet Explorer 8 is unaffected by the vulnerability addressed in the advisory and we continue to encourage all customers to upgrade to this version to benefit from the improved security protection it offers.
