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April 2009 - Posts

Changes in Windows to Meet Changes in Threat Landscape

Posted Tuesday, April 28, 2009 9:37 AM by MSRCTEAM
Customers have heard us say over the years that the threat environment is an ever-evolving one. That means that one of our jobs in working to keep customers safe is to continually monitor the threat environment and make changes to adapt to it. Today, Read More...
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Security Bulletin Webcast Questions and Answers - April 2009

Posted Monday, April 20, 2009 6:39 AM by MSRCTEAM
Hi, During this month’s webcast we were able to address 15 questions in the time allotted, but have included the additional questions asked in this QA post. Most of the questions centered on the MS09-013 : the Windows HTTP bulletin, MS09-014 : Internet Read More...
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April 2009 Security Bulletin Webcast Video

Posted Thursday, April 16, 2009 12:55 PM by MSRCTEAM
Hello again, This is Jerry Bryant letting you know that we have published the security bulletin webcast video. As you know, on Tuesday, we published a quick overview of the 8 bulletins we released on that day. Yesterday we conducted a live, public webcast, Read More...
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April 2009 Monthly Bulletin Release

Posted Tuesday, April 14, 2009 10:56 AM by MSRCTEAM
April is here and is turning out to be a typical, busy month, if one can call it that. In general, when we have a large release, the number of updates ranges from 7-12. With this in mind, we released eight security updates this month: 5 rated as Critical, Read More...
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Token Kidnapping

Posted Tuesday, April 14, 2009 10:36 AM by MSRCTEAM
Hello everyone, As you can see from the April 2009 release summary, we addressed the Token Kidnapping issue with bulletin MS09-012 . This issue allowed an attacker to gain full control of a server if the attacker can first run malicious code on the server Read More...
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Security Bulletin Overview Video – April 2009

Posted Tuesday, April 14, 2009 10:12 AM by MSRCTEAM
Hi Everyone, Jerry Bryant again. Here is the overview video for the April 2009 bulletins. Please join us tomorrow at 11:00 am PDT (UTC –7) for our bulletin webcast where we will cover this months updates in more detail and try to answer all of your bulletin Read More...
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Conficker.E

Posted Thursday, April 09, 2009 6:59 PM by MSRCTEAM
We’ve seen some activity in the Conficker space in the past two days and this has caused some questions from customers. Specifically, there have been reports of two possible new variants of Conficker . Our colleagues over at the Microsoft Malware Protection Read More...
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April 2009 Advanced Notification

Posted Thursday, April 09, 2009 10:03 AM by MSRCTEAM
Hello, Bill here. I wanted to let you know that we just posted our Advance Notification for next week’s bulletin release, scheduled for Tuesday, April 14, 2009 around 10 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time. This should help you plan for your deployment process Read More...
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Microsoft Security Intelligence Report volume 6

Posted Wednesday, April 08, 2009 6:40 AM by MSRCTEAM
Hello, Bill here, Today is the release of the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report volume 6. The report can be found here: http://www.microsoft.com/sir . A section in the report is devoted to out-of-band (OOB) releases. So, I thought I would blog a Read More...
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Microsoft Security Advisory 969136

Posted Thursday, April 02, 2009 3:54 PM by MSRCTEAM
Bill here, I wanted to let you know that we have just posted Microsoft Security Advisory (969136) . This advisory contains information regarding public reports of a vulnerability in Microsoft Office PowerPoint that could allow for remote code execution Read More...
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April 1, 2009 and Conficker

Posted Wednesday, April 01, 2009 4:16 PM by MSRCTEAM
We’ve gotten a number of questions from customers asking us if we’ve seen any new activity from the Conficker worm now that it’s April 1, 2009. We and our partners in the Conficker Working Group have been watching closely and we’ve not seen any new malicious Read More...
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