Surprise from Microsoft: Detailed patch advance info
November 9th, 2006 by Juha-Matti, Filed under: Web, Microsoft, Commentary, Corporate Security
When releasing information about the upcoming security patches of the next Tuesday Redmond guys informed about one Security Bulletin related especially to Microsoft XML Core Services. I.e. they are fixing Extremely Critical code execution vulnerability in XMLHTTP 4.0 ActiveX as a part of XML Core Services. Folks reading first time about this issue can check this MS URL: microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/927892.mspx.
It was the first time today when they shared a more detailed information about the target of upcoming bulletins via Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification program started exactly two years ago.
Hey boys and girls from One Microsoft Way, are you starting something totally new or is the main reason the remarkable number of sites publishing the sploit code?
-
Is your site safe from XSS Attacks? Sig nup for Beyond Security Vulnerability Scanner today!
Subscribe
Subscribe
Was it two or three years ago? I think it was october 2003 when they started…
Huh…?…
As many of you may have guessed… I read a good number of blogs on a daily basis… My bloglines feed contains 191 feeds (6 of which I don’t consider to be tech related)… One of my favourite blogs to read is the SecuriTeam blogR…
To ‘a’:
It was November 2004 when they started:
http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/ArticleID/44404/44404.html
- Juha-Matti
Sorry Juha, I thought you where referring “monthly update” wich started october 2003, I read it the wrong way… My fault
No problem, ‘a’!