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We’re moving to Microsoft Secure
We’re packing up and moving! Starting January 2018, we’ll move our blogs to Microsoft Secure. At Microsoft Secure, you will find technical information for Office 365, Microsoft Azure, and Windows, alongside product updates, cybersecurity guidance, industry trends, and more. You can expect the sam...
End of support for Office 2007
End of support for Office 2007 Support for Office 2007 ended on October 10, 2017. All of your Office 2007 apps will continue to function. However, you could expose yourself to serious and potentially harmful security risks. Upgrade to a newer version of Office so you can stay up to date with all...
Description of the security update for Excel 2007: November 14, 2017
Description of the security update for Excel 2007: November 14, 2017 Summary This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office that could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Microsoft Office file. To learn more about these vulnerabilities, see Microsoft...
Description of the security update for the Windows EOT font engine information disclosure vulnerability in Windows Server 2008: November 14, 2017
Description of the security update for the Windows EOT font engine information disclosure vulnerability in Windows Server 2008: November 14, 2017 Summary An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the way that the Microsoft Windows Embedded OpenType EOT font engine parses specially crafted...
"Unexpected error from external database driver" error when you create or open Microsoft Excel .xls files
"Unexpected error from external database driver" error when you create or open Microsoft Excel .xls files Summary This security update resolves an issue that was introduced in the October 10, 2017, update. Because of this issue, applications that are based on the Microsoft JET Database Engine...
Description of the security update for Office 2010: September 12, 2017
Description of the security update for Office 2010: September 12, 2017 Summary This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office that could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Office file. To learn more about these vulnerabilities, see Microsoft Common...
Security update for the Windows Error Reporting elevation of privilege vulnerability for and Windows Server 2008: August 8, 2017
Security update for the Windows Error Reporting elevation of privilege vulnerability for and Windows Server 2008: August 8, 2017 Summary This security update resolves a vulnerability in Windows Error Reporting WER. The vulnerability could allow elevation of privilege if successfully exploited by ...
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Security update for Windows Server 2008: July 11, 2017
Security update for Windows Server 2008: July 11, 2017 Summary This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Windows Server 2008 that could allow elevation of privilege or information disclosure. To learn more about the vulnerabilities, go to the Security Update Guide. More Information Importa...
Windows kernel information disclosure vulnerability: June 13, 2017
Windows kernel information disclosure vulnerability: June 13, 2017 Summary An information disclosure vulnerability exists when the Windows kernel improperly initializes objects in memory. To exploit this vulnerability, an authenticated attacker could run a specially crafted application. An attack...
Security update for the Windows win32k Information Disclosure Vulnerability in Windows Server 2008: May 9, 2017
Security update for the Windows win32k Information Disclosure Vulnerability in Windows Server 2008: May 9, 2017 Summary An information disclosure vulnerability exists when the win32k component incorrectly provides kernel information. An attacker who successfully exploits the vulnerability could...
MS17-008: Description of the security update for Hyper-V: March 14, 2017
MS17-008: Description of the security update for Hyper-V: March 14, 2017 Summary This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows. The most severe of the vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if an authenticated attacker on a guest operating system runs a specially...
Microsoft Secure Channel Man-in-the-Middle Security Bypass Vulnerability
Microsoft Windows is a popular operating system. Microsoft Secure Channel in Windows fails to properly restrict tls state transitions, allowing attackers to exploit vulnerabilities to submit special tls communications for freak attacks that can drop the encryption level to exportrsa encryption,...
Microsoft Private Communication Technology (PCT) fails to properly validate message inputs
Overview A vulnerability exists in the Private Communications Transport PCT protocol, which is part of the Microsoft Secure Sockets Layer SSL library. Exploitation of this vulnerability may permit a remote attacker to compromise the system. An exploit for this issue currently being used to...
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