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Monday, July 06, 2009 10:42 AM

New vulnerability in MPEG2TuneRequest ActiveX Control Object in msvidctl.dll

We are aware of active attacks exploiting a remote code execution vulnerability in Microsoft’s MPEG2TuneRequest ActiveX Control Object. We have released advisory 972890 providing guidance to help our customers stay protected. In this blog post, we’d like
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Thursday, April 02, 2009 4:20 PM

Investigating the new PowerPoint issue

This afternoon, we posted Security Advisory 969136 describing a new vulnerability in PowerPoint while parsing the legacy binary file format. Unfortunately, we discovered this vulnerability being used to deploy malware in targeted attacks. We expect this
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008 11:30 AM

MS08-041 : The Microsoft Access Snapshot Viewer ActiveX control

MS08-041 fixes a vulnerability in the Microsoft Access Snapshot Viewer ActiveX control. It’s an interesting vulnerability so we wanted to go into more detail about platforms at reduced risk and also more about the servicing strategy for this vulnerability.
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Thursday, May 29, 2008 10:20 PM

SQL Injection Attack

(Special thanks to Neil Carpenter for helping out on this blog post) Recent Trends Beginning late last year, a number of websites were defaced to include malicious HTML <script> tags in text that was stored in a SQL database and used to generate
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