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March Out-of-Band Security Bulletin Webcast

Monday, April 05, 2010

Hi everyone, Last week Adrian Stone and I conducted a webcast to cover the Internet Explorer out-of-band security bulletin release. We only spent a short period of timing on the presentation and then spent the rest of the time answering customer questions which you can read here. There were some interesting questions and hopefully those who attended came away with a better understanding about how to better protect themselves from emerging threats.

Hacker Olympics: a shout-out from Vancouver, BC!

Thursday, April 01, 2010

Handle: Cluster IRL: Maarten Van Horenbeeck Rank: Senior Program Manager Likes: Slicing covert channels, foraging in remote memory pools, and setting off page faults Dislikes: The crackling sound of crypto breaking, warm vodka martni Handle: Mando Picker IRL: Dustin Childs Rank: Security Program Manager Likes: Protecting customers, working with security researchers, second Tuesdays, bourbon, mandolins

Out-of-Band Security Bulletin Webcast Q&A - March 30, 2010

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.

Security Bulletin MS10-018 Released

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.

Internet Explorer Cumulative Update Releasing Out-of-Band

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.

Update on Security Advisory 981374

Friday, March 12, 2010

Hi everyone, I’m writing to let you know that we have updated Security Advisory 981374 with new workaround information. We are aware that exploit code has been made public for this issue. As with our last update, Internet Explorer 8 remains unaffected by the vulnerability addressed in the advisory and we continue to encourage all customers to upgrade to this version.

Investigating a new win32hlp and Internet Explorer issue

Sunday, February 28, 2010

Hi everyone, On Friday 2/26/2010, an issue was posted publicly that could allow an attacker to host a maliciously crafted web page and run arbitrary code if they could convince a user to visit the web page and then get them to press the F1 key in response to a pop up dialog box.

Out-of-Band Security Bulletin Webcast Q&A - January 21, 2010

Friday, January 22, 2010

Hosts: Adrian Stone, Senior Security Program Manager Lead Jerry Bryant, Senior Security Communications Manager Lead Website: TechNet/security Chat Topic: January 2010 Out-of-Band Security Bulletin Date: Thursday, January 21, 2010 Q: I understand the severity for workstaitons. Is the severity lower for servers in terms of this vulnerability, since most servers (except Terminal Servers) do not use IE?

Security Advisory 979352 – Going out of Band

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

We wanted to provide a quick update on the threat landscape and announce that we will release a security update out-of-band to help protect customers from this vulnerability. Based on our comprehensive monitoring of the threat landscape we continue to see very limited, and in some cases, targeted attacks. To date, the only successful attacks that we are aware of have been against Internet Explorer 6.

Assessing risk of IE 0day vulnerability

Friday, January 15, 2010

Yesterday, the MSRC released Microsoft Security Advisory 979352 alerting customers to limited, sophisticated attacks targeting Internet Explorer 6 customers. Today, samples of that exploit were made publicly available. Before we get into the details I want to make one thing perfectly clear. The attacks we have seen to date, including the exploit released publicly, only affect customers using Internet Explorer 6.