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December 2004 - Posts

Earthquake and Tsunami Donation Appeal

I didn’t expect to be posting before next year, but given the situation in southern Asian and eastern Africa, I thought it important to post something to help those affected by the earthquake and the tsunami. You can find a good list of organizations
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Happy Holidays!

I want to comment on a couple of things before we all disappear for the holidays. As you may have noticed, we have turned on comment moderation due to the copious amounts of blog spam we have gotten lately. This means there will be some delay for us to
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Internet Explorer Developer Center

Today we relaunch the Internet Explorer Developer Center on MSDN. You can find this at the relatively easy to remember URL http://msdn.microsoft.com/ie and is a portal for developers using Internet Explorer technologies. On the developer center we highlight
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Security Issues That Aren’t – Part 1

My name is Patrick Mann and I’m a security tester on the IE team. A big part of my job is to research potential IE security vulnerabilities reported to Microsoft by 3 rd parties: security vendors, site developers, or simply observant users. These folks
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New IE Security Update for IE6 SP1 and IE6 (but not IE6 in XPSP2 or Windows Server 2003)

Today we released a security update for IE, MS04-040. This fixes a heap-based buffer overflow that allows remote execution (see CAN-2004-1050 for more details on the specifics of the issue). Full details on the security update can be found in the security
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