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September 2005 - Posts

A Day in the Life of a Security Bulletin

Posted Wednesday, September 28, 2005 12:55 AM by stepto
Hi all- Alexandra Huft here again! I thought you might find it interesting to see “behind the scenes” of how a security vulnerability eventually becomes a security bulletin. So, I’ll start way back at the beginning. We receive reports from many different Read More...
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Simon says “IANAD”

Posted Friday, September 16, 2005 1:49 AM by stepto
It's been 10 years since I did any hands-on dev work. However working in the security space at Microsoft, "SDL" or the Security Development Lifecycle is very visible and obviously important to even those not directly involved in development. We had the Read More...
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PDC from Alexandra's eyes

Posted Thursday, September 15, 2005 2:02 AM by stepto
Hi all- my name is Alexandra Huft, I am a Security Program Manager within the Microsoft Security Response Center, and I’m new to the blog. This being my first PDC I’ve attended ,it has been amazing. It looks like a small swarm with all of dev’s that are Read More...
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The MSRC live from PDC 2005

Posted Wednesday, September 14, 2005 6:02 AM by stepto
Craig Gehre here reporting from the Professional Developer's Conference in L.A. and I have to say that PDC is really coo this year! If you like to code or anything related to developing with, or for, the latest technologies this is the place for you. Read More...
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September's security update release cycle

Posted Tuesday, September 13, 2005 11:41 PM by stepto
Well it's Tuesday, and it been another busy day. That might be surprising since we didn’t release any new security updates, but there’s always a lot going on in the MSRC. While the decision to not ship the security update was a difficult one, it was encouraging Read More...
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REVISED: September Advance Notification

Posted Friday, September 09, 2005 10:28 PM by stepto
Hey folks, Mike Reavey again. So, we’ve had a little change in plans for next week and wanted to make you all aware of it. This afternoon we revised the information in the Advance Notification to reflect a change for next week’s release. Microsoft will Read More...
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September Advance Notification

Posted Thursday, September 08, 2005 7:42 PM by stepto
Hey folks, Mike Reavey here again – and while its been a pretty busy morning (the way I like it) I did want to take a quick second to make sure everyone saw the Advance Notification for the Security Bulletin release this September. This coming Tuesday, Read More...
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Some thoughts on a quiet Wednesday

Posted Wednesday, September 07, 2005 6:33 PM by stepto
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 Read More...
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New Security Advisory on Windows Firewall Exception

Posted Friday, September 02, 2005 5:57 PM by stepto
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 Read More...
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