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Monday, November 23, 2009 1:32 PM

IE8 SmartScreen in action

Last week at PDC, as we were about to start talking to people about IE9, I saw the following notification from my Facebook account: From: Facebook [mailto:notification+mwm5axbx@facebookmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 10:05 AM Dina posted something
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009 12:50 PM

IE October 2009 Security Update Now Available

The IE Cumulative Security Update for October 2009 is now available via Windows Update or Microsoft Update . This update addresses three privately reported vulnerabilities and one publicly disclosed vulnerability. The security update addresses these vulnerabilities
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Thursday, August 13, 2009 1:48 PM

Real-World Protection With IE8’s SmartScreen Filter™

Back in March, I posted a note to the IEBlog when the pre-release version of IE8’s SmartScreen Filter had delivered its 10 millionth malware block. Today, I’m happy to report that IE8’s SmartScreen Filter has delivered more than 70 million blocks in the
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009 12:30 PM

Internet Explorer July Out-of-Band Cumulative Security Update

Internet Explorer is releasing an out-of-band update available via Windows Update . Alternatively, you can receive this and all other Microsoft updates via the new Microsoft Update . I encourage you to upgrade to Microsoft Update if you haven’t already
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009 2:35 PM

Internet Explorer’s ActiveX Security Mitigations in Use

Background As a part of the July security bulletin , Microsoft yesterday released an update to mitigate a vulnerability in the “Microsoft Video” ActiveX control. This control contained a stack-based buffer overflow which could be exploited by a malicious
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Thursday, June 25, 2009 11:45 AM

Declaring Security

Recently, a number of people have asked me what I think about Mozilla’s Content Security Policy draft spec. Back in January, I went on record as being someone who thinks that CSP is a good idea. CSP is a mechanism for declarative security , whereby a
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Tuesday, June 09, 2009 12:31 PM

IE June Security Update Now Available

The IE Cumulative Security Update for June 2009 is now available via Windows Update or Microsoft Update . This update addresses seven privately reported vulnerabilities and one publicly disclosed vulnerability. The security update addresses these vulnerabilities
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Friday, May 01, 2009 10:10 AM

Security Intelligence Report Volume 6

The sixth edition of the Security Intelligence Report (SIR), Microsoft’s semi-annual report on the state of computer security was published on April 8, 2009. Using data derived from hundreds of millions of computers worldwide and some of the busiest online
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009 11:17 AM

IE April Security Update Now Available

The IE Cumulative Security Update for April 2009 is now available via Windows Update or Microsoft Update . This update addresses four privately reported vulnerabilities and two publicly disclosed vulnerabilities. The security update addresses these vulnerabilities
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009 5:42 PM

IE8 Security Part IX - Anti-Malware protection with IE8’s SmartScreen Filter

Over the last year, we’ve published two posts about how the IE8 SmartScreen ® filter helps to prevent phishing and malware attacks. In this post, I’d like to share some real-world data on the protection provided to IE8 pre-release users by the anti-malware
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009 11:35 AM

IE February Security Update Now Available

The IE Cumulative Security Update for February 2009 is now available via Windows Update . Alternatively, you can receive this and all other Microsoft updates via the Microsoft Update . I encourage you to upgrade to Microsoft Update if you haven’t already
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Monday, February 09, 2009 12:09 PM

IE8 Security Part VIII: SmartScreen Filter Release Candidate Update

Hello, I'm Alex Glover and I'm the test owner of the SmartScreen Filter in Internet Explorer 8. The SmartScreen Filter helps protect IE8 users against phishing scams and sites distributing malware . In a previous post , Eric described the SmartScreen
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Thursday, February 05, 2009 10:28 AM

Suggested Sites & Privacy

The IE8 feature Suggested Sites helps you discover related sites that can be helpful to get more information about your interests. Under the hood, Suggested Sites is a system that provides suggestions by using a collection of users’ visited sites. You
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Monday, February 02, 2009 4:15 PM

Birth of a Security Feature: ClickJacking Defense

Hi, my name is Kymberlee Price, and I recently joined the Internet Explorer team as a Security Program Manager for IE8, working with Eric Lawrence. Prior to this I spent five years in Microsoft's Security Engineering & Communications team (MSEC) where
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009 9:40 PM

IE8 Security Part VII: ClickJacking Defenses

As we planned Internet Explorer 8, our security teams analyzed the common attacks in the wild and the trends that suggest where attackers will be focusing their attention next. Over the course of IE8’s development, we’ve also worked closely with those
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