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October 2005 - Posts

A Dumb Patch?

Posted Monday, October 31, 2005 8:08 PM by stepto
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...
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BlueHat v.2

Posted Friday, October 21, 2005 1:05 AM by stepto
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...
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Notes from the Security Road from Mike Nash

Posted Monday, October 17, 2005 10:32 PM by stepto
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...
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Security advisory on 051 problems.

Posted Monday, October 17, 2005 5:24 PM by stepto
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...
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An update on MS05-051 issues

Posted Friday, October 14, 2005 9:55 PM by stepto
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...
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Reports of Exploit code for recent updates.

Posted Friday, October 14, 2005 2:28 AM by stepto
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...
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October 2005 Security Bulletin Release

Posted Tuesday, October 11, 2005 9:17 PM by stepto
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...
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October Advance Notification

Posted Thursday, October 06, 2005 11:39 PM by stepto
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...
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Steve Ballmer and Mike Nash detail security strategy.

Posted Thursday, October 06, 2005 6:26 PM by stepto
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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