Content Tagged ‘Microsoft’

Multiple Vendors Affected by New Vulnerabilities

March 10, 2010 - The number of serious zero-day vulnerabilities and potential exploits discovered in recent days is higher than normal. This can enable cybercriminals to gain more leverage in their attacks, allowing them to target a considerably large number ... Read more

March 2010 Security Bulletin Release

March 9, 2010 - Today we are releasing two Important security bulletins addressing eight vulnerabilities in Windows and Microsoft Office. Both bulletins have an aggregate Exploitability Index rating of “1” so we recommend that customers deploy these updates as soon as possible. The Microsoft ... Read more

Security Advisory 981374 Released

March 9, 2010 - Hi everyone, Today we released Security Advisory 981374 addressing a publicly disclosed vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6 and ... Read more

March 2010 Bulletin Release Advance Notification

March 4, 2010 - Today we are providing advance notification to customers that we will be releasing two bulletins this month affecting Windows and Microsoft Office products. Both bulletins are rated Important and address a total of 8 vulnerabilities. We recommend ... Read more

Update: MS10-015 security update re-released with new detection logic

March 2, 2010 - Hi, I am writing to let you know that we have revised the installation packages for MS10-015 with new logic that prevents the security update from being installed on systems if certain abnormal conditions exist. Such conditions could ... Read more

Botnet Rises in the Name of Chuck Norris

March 1, 2010 - Just when you think old-school network bots are dead, a group of cybercriminals revives them from them grave in the name of Chuck Norris. Dubbed the “Chuck Norris botnet,” based on the Italian comment in its ... Read more

Security Advisory 981169 Released

March 1, 2010 - Hello again, Today we released Security Advisory 981169 to address the VBScript issue involving Windows Help files that we blogged about yesterday. To reiterate what we said in that post, we are not aware of any active ... Read more

Investigating a new win32hlp and Internet Explorer issue

February 28, 2010 - Hi everyone, On Friday 2/26/2010, an issue was posted publicly that could allow an attacker to host a maliciously crafted web page and run arbitrary code if they could convince a user to visit the web page and then ... Read more

Adobe Releases Out-of-Band Patch for Adobe Reader and Acrobat

February 21, 2010 - Since the beginning of the year, Adobe and Microsoft have been under a bad light since most of the most recent attacks notably exploited the two companies’ software vulnerabilities. Adobe Reader and Acrobat, in particular, ... Read more

Windows Update Triggers BSoD Errors

February 18, 2010 - It seems that a recent Windows “patch” has been the cause of a series of blue screen crashes after users install a so-called Microsoft security update. The said patch, MS10-015, is said to be ... Read more

Update – Restart Issues After Installing MS10-015 and the Alureon Rootkit

February 17, 2010 - Hi, We wanted to provide you with an update on ... Read more

Update – Restart Issues After Installing MS10-015

February 12, 2010 - In our continuing investigation in to the restart issues related to MS10-015 that a limited number of customers are experiencing, we have determined that malware on the system can cause the ... Read more

February 2010 Security Bulletin Webcast

February 12, 2010 - Hi everyone, As we do every month following our public webcast, we have posted the questions and answers (which you can find here) and the recorded webcast below. This month there were no particular themes that ... Read more

Restart issues after installing MS10-015

February 11, 2010 - Hi everyone, I am writing to let you know that we are aware that after installing the February security updates a limited number of users are experiencing issues restarting their computers. Our initial analysis suggests that the issue occurs ... Read more

February Patch Tuesday—13 Security Bulletins for 26 Vulnerabilities Plus a FAKEAV

February 9, 2010 - As previously announced in the Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification released last week, this month’s patch cycle includes 13 bulletins intended to patch 26 vulnerabilities in several versions of Windows OS and Office. ... Read more

February 2010 Security Bulletin Release

February 9, 2010 - MSRC Bulletin Release Blog Post Hi everyone, As mentioned in our ANS blog post last week, today we are releasing 13 bulletins addressing 26 vulnerabilities. 11 bulletins affect Windows and 2 affect older versions of Microsoft Office. ... Read more

February 2010 Bulletin Release Advance Notification

February 4, 2010 - Today we released February bulletin information through our Advance Notification Service (ANS). This month, we will be releasing 13 bulletins - five rated Critical, seven rated ... Read more

Security Advisory 980088 Released

February 3, 2010 - Hi everyone, Today we released Security Advisory 980088 to address a publicly disclosed vulnerability in Internet Explorer that may allow Information Disclosure for customers running on Windows XP or who have disabled Internet Explorer Protected Mode.  At this ... Read more

Trend Micro Proactively Helps Protect Against Zero-Day Attacks Like the Recent IE Exploit

January 22, 2010 - The recent attacks on Google and other large organizations (currently being referred to by others as “Aurora,” “Google attacks,” or “HYDRAQ”) refer to a set of carefully orchestrated, sophisticated, and highly complex attacks. They comprised ... Read more

January 2010 Out-of-Band Security Bulletin Webcast

January 22, 2010 - Hello everyone, Yesterday Adrian Stone from the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) and I hosted a live webcast to discuss Security Bulletin MS10-002 and Security Advisory 979682 in more detail with customers. Below is the ... Read more

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