March 10, 2010 - The number of serious zero-day vulnerabilities and potential exploits discovered in recent days is higher than normal. This can enable cybercriminals to gain more leverage in their attacks, allowing them to target a considerably large number ... Read more
March 9, 2010 - Today we are releasing two Important security bulletins addressing eight vulnerabilities in Windows and Microsoft Office. Both bulletins have an aggregate Exploitability Index rating of “1” so we recommend that customers deploy these updates as soon as possible. The Microsoft ... Read more
March 9, 2010 - Hi everyone, Today we released Security Advisory 981374 addressing a publicly disclosed vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6 and ... Read more
March 4, 2010 - Today we are providing advance notification to customers that we will be releasing two bulletins this month affecting Windows and Microsoft Office products. Both bulletins are rated Important and address a total of 8 vulnerabilities. We recommend ... Read more
March 1, 2010 - Just when you think old-school network bots are dead, a group of cybercriminals revives them from them grave in the name of Chuck Norris. Dubbed the “Chuck Norris botnet,” based on the Italian comment in its ... Read more
March 1, 2010 - Hello again, Today we released Security Advisory 981169 to address the VBScript issue involving Windows Help files that we blogged about yesterday. To reiterate what we said in that post, we are not aware of any active ... Read more
February 28, 2010 - Hi everyone, On Friday 2/26/2010, an issue was posted publicly that could allow an attacker to host a maliciously crafted web page and run arbitrary code if they could convince a user to visit the web page and then ... Read more
February 21, 2010 - Since the beginning of the year, Adobe and Microsoft have been under a bad light since most of the most recent attacks notably exploited the two companies’ software vulnerabilities. Adobe Reader and Acrobat, in particular, ... Read more
February 17, 2010 - Hi, We wanted to provide you with an update on ... Read more
February 12, 2010 - Hi everyone, As we do every month following our public webcast, we have posted the questions and answers (which you can find here) and the recorded webcast below. This month there were no particular themes that ... Read more
February 11, 2010 - Hi everyone, I am writing to let you know that we are aware that after installing the February security updates a limited number of users are experiencing issues restarting their computers. Our initial analysis suggests that the issue occurs ... Read more
February 9, 2010 - As previously announced in the Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification released last week, this month’s patch cycle includes 13 bulletins intended to patch 26 vulnerabilities in several versions of Windows OS and Office. ... Read more
February 9, 2010 - MSRC Bulletin Release Blog Post Hi everyone, As mentioned in our ANS blog post last week, today we are releasing 13 bulletins addressing 26 vulnerabilities. 11 bulletins affect Windows and 2 affect older versions of Microsoft Office. ... Read more
February 4, 2010 - Today we released February bulletin information through our Advance Notification Service (ANS). This month, we will be releasing 13 bulletins - five rated Critical, seven rated ... Read more
February 3, 2010 - Hi everyone, Today we released Security Advisory 980088 to address a publicly disclosed vulnerability in Internet Explorer that may allow Information Disclosure for customers running on Windows XP or who have disabled Internet Explorer Protected Mode. At this ... Read more
January 22, 2010 - The recent attacks on Google and other large organizations (currently being referred to by others as “Aurora,” “Google attacks,” or “HYDRAQ”) refer to a set of carefully orchestrated, sophisticated, and highly complex attacks. They comprised ... Read more
January 22, 2010 - Hello everyone, Yesterday Adrian Stone from the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) and I hosted a live webcast to discuss Security Bulletin MS10-002 and Security Advisory 979682 in more detail with customers. Below is the ... Read more
