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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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Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for May 2011

May 7, 2011

The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) The bulletin release is scheduled for the second Tuesday of the month, May 10, at approximately 10 a.m. PDT. Advance Notification. Preliminary information, subject to change. Exploitability Index Improvements & Advance Notification Service for May 2011 Bulletin Release Since October 2008, we have used the Exploitability Index to provide [...]

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Second MSRT Release in April

April 26, 2011

Microsoft Malware Protection Center In continuation of our support for the takedown activities on the Win32/Afcore botnet, we are releasing a second edition of MSRT in April. This edition includes variants of Afcore released by the criminals behind it at approximately the same time as the previous edition of MSRT. While MSRT has traditionally been [...]

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Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for April 2011

April 7, 2011

The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) Advance Notification. Preliminary information, subject to change. Today, we’re providing advanced notification on the release of 17 security bulletins, nine rated Critical and eight rated Important. This month’s bulletin release will address 64 vulnerabilities across Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer, Visual Studio, .NET Framework and GDI+. This month [...]

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Windows Internet Explorer 9

March 23, 2011

Available for Windows 7 and Windows Vista with separate installers for 32-bit and 64-bit editions. IEBlog Getting started with Internet Explorer 9 Learn more about Internet Explorer 9 at beautyoftheweb.com

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Microsoft Advisory-Fraudulent Digital Certificates Could Allow Spoofing

March 23, 2011

Microsoft Security Advisory (2524375) Published: March 23, 2011 Microsoft is aware of nine fraudulent digital certificates issued by Comodo, a certification authority present in the Trusted Root Certification Authorities Store on all supported versions of Microsoft Windows. Comodo advised Microsoft on March 16, 2011 that nine certificates had been signed on behalf of a third [...]

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Joint effort brings down Rustock Botnet

March 17, 2011

Microsoft On The Issues 17 Mar 2011 This operation, known as Operation b107, is the second high-profile takedown in Microsoft’s joint effort between DCU, Microsoft Malware Protection Center and Trustworthy Computing – known as Project MARS (Microsoft Active Response for Security) – to disrupt botnets and begin to undo the damage the botnets have caused [...]

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