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May 2006 - Posts

Incorrect reports of a new Windows 2000 SMB vulnerability

Posted Thursday, May 25, 2006 10:59 PM by stepto
Hey everyone. Stephen Toulouse here. There has been a bit of a flurry of activity here in Redmond this morning when we noticed a couple of people releasing information about an SMB vulnerability in Windows 2000. We just want to let everyone know that Read More...
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Advisory posted on the recent Word vulnerability.

Posted Tuesday, May 23, 2006 3:58 PM by stepto
Hi everyone, Stephen Toulouse here again. Just wanted to make you aware that we have reached the point in our investigation of the limited attacks trying to use the Word vulnerability that provided us with enough information to develop some stronger workarounds Read More...
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A quick check-in on the Word vulnerability

Posted Saturday, May 20, 2006 9:03 PM by stepto
Hi everyone, Stephen Toulouse here again. I wanted to catch you up on where we’re at with our investigation of the Word vulnerability. First off on the vulnerability itself: I want to reiterate we’re hard at work on an update. The attack vector here is Read More...
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Reports of a new vulnerability in Microsoft Word

Posted Friday, May 19, 2006 8:20 PM by stepto
Hi everyone, Stephen Toulouse here. We've been made aware of a new vulnerability in Microsoft Word XP and Word 2003. Customers using the Word viewer to view documents are not impacted. Yesterday we recieved a report that a customer had been subjected Read More...
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New Article: Ten Principles of Microsoft Patch Management

Posted Tuesday, May 16, 2006 4:38 PM by stepto
Hello, This is Christopher Budd. I wanted to take a moment and let folks know that this month's IT Pro Security newsletter has an article that I hope will be helpful for those of you who manage security updates. It's called Ten Principles of Microsoft Read More...
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Detection Changes for MS06-020 on WU/MU/AU and Text Corrections for MS06-019 for WSUS/SMS

Posted Thursday, May 11, 2006 10:07 PM by stepto
This is Craig Gehre and there are two things I wanted to let you know about. Some of you may have been getting install errors on the Flash update, MS06-020, we released on Tuesday. You would have seen these install failure errors on Windows Update, Microsoft Read More...
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May 2006 Bulletin Release

Posted Tuesday, May 09, 2006 7:49 PM by stepto
Say heh? I have to be honest. I’ve been in the MSRC now for a while, seen a lot of “interesting” things happen around here and it is a bit of a trip to look at our list of bulletins we shipped today and see the words Flash, Adobe, and Macromedia in the Read More...
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May 2006 Advance Notification

Posted Thursday, May 04, 2006 10:52 PM by stepto
Good afternoon, This is Christopher Budd. I wanted to take a moment and let you know that we've posted our regular Monthly Advanced Notification for the upcoming bulletin release. As a reminder, this month, our regularly scheduled monthly bulletin release Read More...
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