The organization that develops and promotes Internet standards have approved a change to the TLS protocol, to fix a dangerous security issue emerged last year
 - The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has approved the final draft of an amendment to the Transport Layer Security (TLS), a protocol used to protect the majority of online transactions, which should solve a serious security problem. This problem came to light several months ago, but was made public only last November.

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Published in February, 2009

As part of Microsoft's routine, monthly security update cycle, Microsoft released 4 new security updates on February 10, 2009.

Here are the new security updates:

•        MS09-002 - addresses a vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer (KB 961260)

•        MS09-003 - addresses a vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange Server (KB 959239)

•        MS09-004 - addresses a vulnerability in Microsoft SQL Server (KB 959420)

•        MS09-005 - addresses a vulnerability in Microsoft Office (KB 957634)

As part of Microsoft's routine, monthly security update cycle, Microsoft released 1 new security update on January 13, 2009.

Here is the new security update:

MS09-001 - addresses a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows (KB 958687)

Here there are details for IT professionals:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS09-001.mspx

This bulletin summary lists security bulletins released for January 2008.

With the release of the bulletins for January 2008, this bulletin summary replaces the bulletin advance notification originally issued January 3, 2008. For more information about the bulletin advance notification service, see Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification.

If you want to receive automatic notifications whenever Microsoft security bulletins are issued, visit Microsoft Technical Security Notifications.

Update for Windows Vista for x64-based Systems (KB932385) Install this update to resolve an issue where CGI applications that set multiple instances of a response header in Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 do not work as expected

Update for Windows Vista (KB932385) Install this update to resolve an issue where CGI applications that set multiple instances of a response header in Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 do not work as expected.

Update for Windows Vista (KB933228) Install this update to resolve an issue where a user may receive a "Page can not be displayed" error message when using Internet Explorer 7 to access a web server configured to use OpenSSL.

Update for Windows Vista for x64-based Systems (KB933228) Install this update to resolve an issue where a user may receive a "Page can not be displayed" error message when using Internet Explorer 7 to access a web server configured to use OpenSSL.

Update for Windows Vista (KB939786) Install this update to resolve an issue where the system cannot listen for HTTP traffic when a non-administrator user starts an application.

Update for Windows Vista for x64-based Systems (KB939786) Install this update to resolve an issue where the system cannot listen for HTTP traffic when a non-administrator user starts an application.

Update for Windows Vista (KB938126) Install this update to enable new types of Windows Media Center Extenders, such as digital televisions and networked DVD players, to connect to the Windows Media Center PC.

Update for Windows Vista for x64-based Systems (KB938126) Install this update to enable new types of Windows Media Center Extenders, such as digital televisions and networked DVD players, to connect to the Windows Media Center PC.

SUMMARY

Microsoft's threat research and response is now available to the public over at http://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/. You can get detailed analysis of various threats, query their extensive library and even download definition updates out of band for Defender or Forefront. Both in x32 and x64.

You can even submit files that are suspected of containing malware or potentially unwanted software to Microsoft using their online form.