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August 2005 - Posts

New Security Advisory Posted

Posted Wednesday, August 24, 2005 12:30 AM by stepto
Hi everyone, Debby Fry Wilson here. Just wanted to talk a little bit about a security advisory we have released today just as a precaution. There's been a lot of concern about MS05-039 because of the recent attacks against unpatched Windows 2000 systems. Read More...
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New security advisory

Posted Saturday, August 20, 2005 1:59 AM by stepto
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, Read More...
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The View from the Situation Room

Posted Wednesday, August 17, 2005 7:03 PM by stepto
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 Read More...
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Guidance pages and information on Worm:Win32/Zotob.A

Posted Monday, August 15, 2005 12:42 AM by stepto
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 Read More...
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Reports of an attack on MS05-039

Posted Sunday, August 14, 2005 8:10 PM by stepto
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 Read More...
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New security advisory

Posted Friday, August 12, 2005 2:24 AM by stepto
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 Read More...
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MS05-038 Download Center Updates re-issued.

Posted Wednesday, August 10, 2005 6:32 PM by stepto
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, Read More...
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Today's Security Updates and bit of a glitch.

Posted Tuesday, August 09, 2005 11:07 PM by stepto
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 Read More...
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Slashdot article incorrect.

Posted Saturday, August 06, 2005 12:36 AM by stepto
An article on Slashdot is saying that Monad was pulled from Windows Vista due to the virus story. This is 100% incorrect. One had nothing to do with the other. Monad is probably going to be a longer term project than Windows Vista, and we didn't just Read More...
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A virus for Windows Vista? Wrong.

Posted Friday, August 05, 2005 4:39 PM by stepto
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 Read More...
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Today's Advance Notification

Posted Thursday, August 04, 2005 6:57 PM by stepto
Hey folks - Mike Reavey here. Next Tuesday is the 2nd Tuesday of the Month and I wanted to outline what bulletins we expect to release. At the moment we have 6 security bulletins planned for release, the highest severity rating of these is Critical. We're Read More...
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My thoughts about BlackHat 2005 - Viva Las Vegas!

Posted Thursday, August 04, 2005 5:42 PM by stepto
Hi…. My name is Brian Schafer and I’m a newb to bloggin! <Great, now that I got that out of the way… > Wow! Viva Las Vegas ! What an awesome experience! Quite a bit different from Blackhat Seattle I must say! I now have a greater appreciation for Read More...
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More thoughts from BlackHat 2005.

Posted Wednesday, August 03, 2005 3:43 PM by stepto
Hello! My name is Debbie Wilcox and I’m a Security Program Manager in the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC). I just got back from my very first Black Hat Conference and I have to admit, I was pleasantly surprised. I wasn’t sure what to expect, Read More...
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