august 2011

Revision Note: V1.0 (August 9, 2011): Advisory published. Summary: Microsoft is releasing a new set of ActiveX kill bits with this advisory. Continue reading...

Revision Note: V1.1 (August 10, 2011): For MS11-059, corrected restart requirement information in the Executive Summaries section. For MS11-065, corrected key note in the Exploitability Index for CVE-2011-1968. For MS11-068, revised Server Core notation for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server...

Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.0 (August 9, 2011): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Remote Desktop Web Access. The vulnerability is a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability that could allow...

Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V2.0 (August 9, 2011): Bulletin rereleased to announce a detection change to the update for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 (KB2251481) to add detection for related software listed in the update FAQ. There were no changes to the...

Severity Rating: Critical Revision Note: V1.0 (August 9, 2011): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves five privately reported vulnerabilities and two publicly disclosed vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. The most severe vulnerabilities could allow...

Hello, Today we published the Link Removed due to 404 Error. We fielded six questions on various topics during the webcast, including bulletins released and the Malicious Software Removal Tool. There was one question that we were unable to answer during the webcast due to time constraints, and...

Resolves a vulnerability in Windows that could allow denial of service if a user visits a network share (or visits a website that points to a network share) that contains a specially crafted file. More...

Resolves vulnerabilities in Windows that could allow denial of service if an attacker sends a sequence of specially crafted ICMP messages to a target system or sends a specially crafted URL request to a server that is serving Web content and has the... More...

Resolves a vulnerability in Windows that could allow could allow remote code execution if a user opens a legitimate Excel-related file (such as a .xlsx file) that is located in the same network directory as a specially crafted library file. More...

Hello all. It has been very nearly a week since our Link Removed due to 404 Error at Black Hat. Now that everyone’s had some time to digest the basics, we’ve asked Senior Security Strategist and chief BlueHat Prize architect Katie Moussouris to stop by the Trustworthy Computing...