Content Tagged ‘Microsoft Windows’

A live BlueHat Prize webcast and the August 2011 security updates

August 9, 2011 - Hello all. It has been very nearly a week since our BlueHat Prize contest announcement at Black Hat. Now that everyone’s had some time to digest the basics, we’ve asked Senior Security Strategist and chief BlueHat (continue reading...) Read more

Rustock updates and Advance Notification Service for the July 2011 Security Bulletin Release

July 7, 2011 - Hello all -- This week we released a special Security Intelligence Reportthat showcases (continue reading...) Read more

Q&A from April 2011 Security Bulletin Webcast

April 14, 2011 - Hello, Today we published the April Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page. We fielded 14 questions on various topics during the webcast, including bulletins released, deployment tools, and update detection tools. There were two questions during the webcast (continue reading...) Read more

March 2011 Security Bulletin Release

March 8, 2011 - Hello all -- Today, as part of our monthly security bulletin release, we have three bulletins addressing four vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office. One bulletin is rated Critical, and this is the bulletin we recommend for priority deployment: (continue reading...) Read more

Advance Notification Service for the March 2011 Security Bulletin Release

March 3, 2011 - Hello all -- Today, as part of our usual monthly bulletin cadence, we are providing our Advance Notification Service for March's security bulletins. This month we'll release three bulletins, one of them rated Critical and two rated Important, addressing issues (continue reading...) Read more

February 2011 Security Bulletin Release

February 8, 2011 - Hello all -- Today, as part of our monthly security bulletin release, we have 12 bulletins addressing 22 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Office, Internet Explorer, and IIS (Internet Information Services). Three bulletins are rated Critical, and these are the bulletins we recommend for priority deployment: (continue reading...) Read more

Microsoft releases Security Advisory 2501696

January 28, 2011 - Hello. Today we're releasing Security Advisory 2501696, which describes a publicly disclosed scripting vulnerability affecting all versions of Microsoft Windows. The main impact of the vulnerability is unintended information disclosure. We're aware of published information and proof-of-concept code that attempts to exploit this vulnerability, but (continue reading...) Read more

December 2010 Security Bulletin Release

December 14, 2010 - Hi everyone. As part of our usual cycle of monthly security updates, today Microsoft is releasing 17 bulletins addressing 40 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Office, Internet Explorer, SharePoint Server and Exchange. Two of those bulletins carry a Critical rating, while 14 are rated Important (continue reading...) Read more

September 2010 Security Bulletin Release

September 13, 2010 - Hi everyone, With this month's bulletin release, I want to highlight the great work done through our partnerships in the Microsoft Active (continue reading...) Read more

Update on the publicly disclosed Win32k.sys EoP Vulnerability

August 10, 2010 - Hi everyone, Yesterday we tweeted to let customers know that we were investigating a publicly disclosed vulnerability in the Windows Kernel-mode drivers (win32k.sys) affecting all supported operating systems. We are (continue reading...) Read more

Out of Band Release to address Microsoft Security Advisory 2286198

July 29, 2010 - Today we're announcing plans to release a security update to address the vulnerability discussed in Security Advisory 2286198 on Monday, August 2, 2010 at or (continue reading...) Read more

Security Advisory 2286198 Updated

July 20, 2010 - We've just updated Microsoft Security Advisory 2286198 to let customers know that we now have an automated "Fix It" available to implement the workaround we first outlined in our original posting on Friday, July 16, 2010. More information (continue reading...) Read more

July 2010 Security Bulletin Release

July 13, 2010 - Hi everyone. As part of our usual monthly update cycle, today Microsoft is releasing four security bulletins to address five vulnerabilities in Windows and Microsoft Office. MS10-042 resolves a publicly disclosed and actively exploited vulnerability discussed in Security Advisory (continue reading...) Read more

July 2010 Bulletin Release Advance Notification

July 8, 2010 - Hi everyone. Today we're releasing our advance notification for the July security bulletin release, which is scheduled for Tuesday, July 13. This month's release includes four bulletins addressing five vulnerabilities. Two bulletins, both with a severity rating of Critical, (continue reading...) Read more

Security Advisory 2219475 Released

June 10, 2010 - Hello - We have released Security Advisory 2219475, addressing the vulnerability in the Windows Help and Support Center function in Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. We are not aware of any active attacks at this time. Customers running (continue reading...) Read more

Windows Help Vulnerability Disclosure

June 10, 2010 - Hello, We are aware of a publicly disclosed vulnerability affecting Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. We are not aware of any current exploitation of this issue and customers running Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Server 2008 (continue reading...) Read more

June 2010 Security Bulletin Release

June 8, 2010 - Hi everyone, Today, as part of our regular monthly security bulletin release cycle, we released 10 bulletins to address 34 total vulnerabilities in Windows, Microsoft Office (including SharePoint), Internet Explorer (IE), Internet Information Services (IIS), and the .NET Framework. Only three (continue reading...) Read more

June 2010 Security Bulletin Advance Notification

June 3, 2010 - Hi everyone, (continue reading...) Read more

Security Advisory 2028859 Released

May 18, 2010 - Hello all. As we start the week we’re investigating a publicly reported vulnerability in the Windows Canonical Display Driver (cdd.dll) and (continue reading...) Read more

Advance Notification for the May 2010 Security Bulletin Release

May 6, 2010 - Hi everyone, Today we published our advance notification for the May security bulletin release letting customers know that (continue reading...) Read more

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