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Introducing Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) 4.1

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

In June 2013, we released EMET 4.0 and customer response has been fantastic. Many customers across the world now include EMET as part of their defense-in-depth strategy and appreciate how EMET helps businesses prevent attackers from gaining access to computers systems. Today, we’re releasing a new version, EMET 4.1, with updates that simplify configuration and accelerate deployment.

Technical details of the targeted attack using IE vulnerability CVE-2013-3918

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Over the weekend we became aware of an active attack relying on an unknown remote code execution vulnerability of a legacy ActiveX component used by Internet Explorer. We are releasing this blog to confirm one more time that the code execution vulnerability will be fixed in today’s UpdateTuesday release and to clarify some details about the second vulnerability reported.

CVE-2013-3906: a graphics vulnerability exploited through Word documents

Tuesday, November 05, 2013

Recently we become aware of a vulnerability of a Microsoft graphics component that is actively exploited in targeted attacks using crafted Word documents sent by email. Today we are releasing Security Advisory 2896666 which includes a proactive Fix it workaround for blocking this attack while we are working on the final update.

CVE-2013-3893: Fix it workaround available

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Today, we released a Fix it workaround tool to address a new IE vulnerability that had been actively exploited in extremely limited, targeted attacks. This Fix it makes a minor modification to mshtml.dll when it is loaded in memory to address the vulnerability. This Fix it workaround tool is linked fromSecurity Advisory 2887505 that describes this issue.

EMET 4.0 now available for download

Monday, June 17, 2013

We are pleased to announce that the final release of version 4.0 of the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit , best known as EMET, is now finally available for download. You can download it from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39273. We already mentioned some of the new features introduced in EMET 4: Certificate Trust , mitigations improvement hardening , and the Early Warning Program.

MS13-051: Get Out of My Office!

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

MS13-051 addresses a security vulnerability in Microsoft Office 2003 and Office for Mac. Newer versions of Microsoft Office for Windows are not affected by this vulnerability, but the newest version of Office for Mac (2011) is affected. We have seen this vulnerability exploited in targeted 0day attacks in the wild. In this blog we’ll cover the following aspects:

A few more days before EMET 4

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

On May 8th, we announced that EMET 4 would have been released today, May 28th. Since that day, we had additional feedback and we are working on a few things that are requiring a little bit more time than expected. This considered, we are not releasing EMET 4 today, and we will take a few more days to have everything prepared for the final release.