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October 2005 - Posts

Hi everyone, Stephen Toulouse here. One of the security researchers that the MSRC works with, Cesar Cerrudo of Argeniss, has pointed out that update MS05-018 fixed an entry point to a vulnerable function without addressing the vulnerable function itself. Read More...
Hey Andrew Cushman here. I work in the Security Technology Unit. My team is focused on outreach to the security researcher community. Our roots are in MSRC – we started a couple years ago focused on “finders” (researchers that report bugs to MSRC). The Read More...
Mike Nash here – this is actually the first time that I’ve posted on the blog. You’ve probably heard that we recently made some announcements around our security strategy with Steve Ballmer in the past couple weeks. I thought it was the perfect occasion Read More...
Hi everyone, wanted to point out that Friday we published a security advisory just to make sure people were getting the information on problems after installing 051 that Mike blogged about previously. Here's the link . There's not a lot new, we just wanted Read More...
Hey everyone, Mike Reavey here. Wanted to drop everyone a note that yes we are aware of some of the information floating around about problems after installing the MS05-051 update on Windows 2000 systems. We've investigated this and here's what we have Read More...
Hi everyone, Stephen Toulouse here. There's been a lot of talk today about exploit code, specifically around security bulletins MS05-051 and MS05-046. The good news is that we're not aware at this time of any exploit code being available publicly. Currently Read More...
Like greased lightnin’. Granted I don’t have overhead lifters or a four speed on the floor, nevertheless today was systematic . Nine bulletins requires that a lot of pieces come together. Hands down this was the smoothest release based on “pain” to bulletin Read More...
Hey folks, Mike Reavey here, I wanted to take a quick second to make sure everyone saw the Advance Notification for the Security Bulletin release for this October. This coming Tuesday, we’re planning to release nine security bulletins, and they are being Read More...
Hi everyone, Stephen Toulouse here. Back from a nice vacation and wanted to stop and just jot a quick note about Steve Ballmer and Mike Nash's respective speeches today where they detailed a number of new products and partnerships relating to security. Read More...
 
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