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Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) is a discontinued software tool that is no longer available from Microsoft that determines security state by assessing missing security updates and less-secure security settings within Microsoft Windows, Windows components such as Internet Explorer, IIS web server, and products Microsoft SQL Server, and Microsoft Office macro settings.
Follina is the name given to a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability, a type of arbitrary code execution (ACE) exploit, in the Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool (MSDT) which was first widely publicized on May 27, 2022, by a security research group called Nao Sec. [5] This exploit allows a remote attacker to use a Microsoft Office document template to execute code via MSDT.
The development of the product began in 2014 as a grassroots incubation project in the Israeli R&D center of Microsoft, [12] with the internal code name 'Kusto' [9] [7] (named after Jacques Cousteau, as a reference to "exploring the ocean of data"). The project aim was to address Azure services' needs for fast and scalable log and telemetry ...
Microsoft notes, "To be able to write to the Security log, SeAuditPrivilege is required. By default, only Local System and Network Service accounts have such privilege". [14] Microsoft Windows Internals states, "Processes that call audit system services . . . must have the SeAuditPrivilege privilege to successfully generate an audit record". [15]
The tool is also available as a standalone download. [1] Since support for Windows 2000 ended on July 13, 2010, Microsoft stopped distributing the tool to Windows 2000 users via Windows Update. The last version of the tool that could run on Windows 2000 was 4.20, released on May 14, 2013.
Office Update is a free online service that allows users to detect and install updates for certain Microsoft Office products. The original update service supported Office 2000, Office XP, Office 2003 and Office 2007. On 1 August 2009 Microsoft decommissioned the Office Update service, merging it with Microsoft Update. [50]
"Because the new services and technologies draw information and updates from a single source—the Microsoft Update catalog—and use a common polling engine (provided by the new Windows Update Agent), our customers will have a much more integrated and reliable update management process."
EMCO Remote Installer allows auditing software and OS updates installed on remote PCs. [4] The application extracts information about the installed software from remote PCs and stores it in a database enabling the user to generate software inventory reports. The collected software inventory information is used to uninstall applications and updates.