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Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for October 2011

October 6, 2011

Security TechCenter http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms11-oct Preliminary information, subject to change. The bulletin release is scheduled for the second Tuesday of the month, October 11, at approximately 10 a.m. PDT. Advanced notification on the release of eight security bulletins, two Critical and six Important, to address 23 vulnerabilities across Internet Explorer, .NET Framework & Silverlight, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft [...]

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Microsoft: Rustock Civil Case Closed

September 22, 2011

The Official Microsoft® Blog Rustock Civil Case Closed: Microsoft Refers Criminal Evidence to FBI 22 Sep 2011 As you may have read in this morning’s edition of CNET, on Sept. 13th, Judge James L. Robart, of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington ruled that the domain names and Internet protocol addresses [...]

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Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for September 2011

September 8, 2011

The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) Preliminary information, subject to change. Advanced notification on the release of five Important security bulletins, addressing 15 vulnerabilities, to help protect customers using Microsoft Windows and Office. As usual, the bulletin release is scheduled for the second Tuesday of the month, September 13, at approximately 10 a.m. PDT. Microsoft [...]

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Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for August 2011

August 4, 2011

The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) Preliminary information, subject to change. Advance Notification Service Today we’re releasing our advance notification for the August security bulletin release, which is scheduled for Tuesday, August 9. This month’s release includes 13 bulletins addressing 22 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Office, Internet Explorer, .NET and Visual Studio. All 13 bulletins [...]

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Web redirector malware

August 2, 2011

July MSRT on web redirector malware Microsoft Malware Protection Center This month, we added Win32/Tracur and Win32/Dursg, two of the most prevalent pieces of malware belonging to the category of ‘web redirectors’, to our Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT). After just over two weeks in release, we have early numbers on our success in detecting [...]

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Microsoft Offers $250,000 Reward for Information on Rustock

July 18, 2011

The Official Microsoft Blog Posted by Richard Boscovich Senior Attorney, Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit 18 Jul 2011 Last month, I shared with you that the Rustock botnet has remained inactive since Microsoft and its partners took it offline on March 16th. Today, we take our pursuit a step further. After publishing notices in two Russian [...]

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Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for July 2011

July 7, 2011

The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) Preliminary information, subject to change. Advance Notification Service This month we’ll release four bulletins, one of them rated Critical and three rated Important, addressing issues in Microsoft Windows and Office. We’ll close 22 vulnerabilities with those bulletins. The bulletin release is once again slated for the second Tuesday of [...]

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Microsoft-New Threat Data on Rustock

July 6, 2011

Since successfully taking down the Rustock botnet on March 16th, Microsoft has continued to analyze the threat, investigate leads on the operations and owners of the botnet and work with Community Emergency Response Teams (CERTs) and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) worldwide to help the legitimate owners of Rustock-infected computers to clean their computers of malware. [...]

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Microsoft: 10 Immutable Laws Revisited

June 9, 2011

Microsoft TechNet. Version 2.0 Ten years ago, Microsoft penned the “Ten Immutable Laws of Security,” which debuted on TechNet. It was written before the rise of – among other technologies and trends – cloud computing, social networking, widespread smartphone adoption, and Windows XP, to name but a few landmarks along the way. Did a decade [...]

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Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for June 2011

June 9, 2011

The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) Advance Notification. Preliminary information, subject to change. The bulletin release is scheduled for the second Tuesday of the month, June 14, at approximately 10am PDT. There are 16 bulletins addressing 34 vulnerabilities (nine critical and seven important) in Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer, .NET, SQL, Visual Studios, Silverlight [...]

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