Archive for March 29th, 2010

Today, our friends at Trend Micro blogged about a new attack vector using Microsoft Word documents. We saw this as well last week, and have written a detection for the dropped trojan.It’s not just a “lawsuit” that’s being spammed, we also pick... »

Microsoft said today it will issue an out-of-band patch tomorrow for a vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6 and 7 that is being actively exploited.“The vulnerability exists due to an invalid pointer reference being used within Internet Explorer. It i... »

Today we issued our Advanced Notification Service (ANS) to advise customers that we will be releasing security update MS10-018 tomorrow, March 30, 2010, at approximately10:00 a.m. PDT (UTC-8). MS10-018 resolves Security Advisory 981374, addressing a publicly disclosed vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7. Internet Explorer 8 is unaffected by the vulnerability addressed... »

It seems Larry Hryb, Director of XBox Live Programming, had his account taken over at the weekend. However, there are a number of faintly hysterical headlines claiming he was “hacked” along with “are you next?” taglines (such as this one), and ... »