August 31, 2010 - Hi everyone, Since we released Security Advisory 2269637 on August 23, we've continued to conduct an investigation not only into our own affected products, but also into how we can best help to protect customers given DLL preloading also affects Read more
August 26, 2010 - Scarcely had we got our breath back mainly after Microsoft addressed a serious vulnerability in handling .LNK (shortcut) files, before researcher HD Moore made public a Read more
August 21, 2010 - Overview Today we released Microsoft Security Advisory 2269637. This is different from other Microsoft Security Advisories because it's not talking about specific vulnerabilities in Microsoft products. Rather, this is our official guidance in response to security research that has outlined Read more
August 12, 2010 - Hello, Today we published the Questions & Answers from the August 2010 Security Bulleting webcast. We answered a total of 17 questions concerning the March bulletins and open Security Advisories. No particular themes emerged from the questions but there Read more
August 10, 2010 - As expected, we have a large release from Microsoft covering 15 bulletins, 9 of which are critical. This will be a disruptive Patch Tuesday given the broad range of products impacted and the required restarts. Initial priorities should always be Read more
August 10, 2010 - As expected, we have a large release from Microsoft covering 15 bulletins, 9 of which are critical. This will be a disruptive Patch Tuesday given the broad range of products impacted and the required restarts. Initial priorities should always be Read more
August 10, 2010 - Hello all. As part of our usual cycle of monthly updates, today Microsoft is releasing 14 security bulletins, addressing 34 vulnerabilities. Eight of those bulletins have a Critical severity rating, and we consider four of those to be high-priority deployments: Read more
August 5, 2010 - This August is bringing a record setting number of updates from Microsoft. In addition to last week's LNK update, there will be another 14 bulletins addressing 34 vulnerabilities, that IT Read more
August 5, 2010 - Hello; I'm Angela Gunn and I'm new to the Response Communications team. Today we're releasing our advance notification for the August security bulletin release, which is scheduled for Tuesday, August 10. This month's release is composed of 14 bulletins Read more
August 2, 2010 - As expected, Microsoft has released a critical out-of-band patch for the LNK shortcut file vulnerability which received attention last month. As a critical patch, this update will be delivered through Windows’ Automatic Update service, as well as being directly available for Read more
August 2, 2010 - Hello, As we announced on Friday, today we released Security Bulletin MS10-046 out-of-band to address a vulnerability in Windows. This security update addresses a vulnerability in the handling of shortcuts that affects all currently supported versions of Windows XP, Read more
August 1, 2010 - UK journalist Kevin Townsend has blogged today on what sounds like two support scam phone-calls of a type I've mentioned here a few times since a colleague at another company drew my attention to it last month. Interestingly, while one Read more
July 30, 2010 - Microsoft will issue an out-of-band update next Monday, August 2nd. The update will address the critical LNK vulnerability that applies to all versions of the Windows Operating system, from Windows XP Read more
July 30, 2010 - While our budget-constrained defenses remain relatively static, the threat vector continues to change. Historically in network security, attackers seem to regularly stay one step ahead of defenders. I have watched the arms race unfold for more than two decades as Read more
July 29, 2010 - Today we're announcing plans to release a security update to address the vulnerability discussed in Security Advisory 2286198 on Monday, August 2, 2010 at or Read more
July 28, 2010 - Two years ago, in front of a standing-room only crowd here at Black Hat, we introduced three new information sharing programs as well as the concept of Community-Based Defense. The underlying concept shared by all three programs was simple-collaboration will Read more
