January 12, 2012 - Hello, Today we published the January Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page. We fielded nine questions on various topics during the webcast, including bulletins released, deployment tools, and update detection tools. There were two questions during the (continue reading...) Read more
January 10, 2012 - Hello. As I previously mentioned in the Advance Notification Service blog post on Thursday, today we are releasing seven security bulletins, one of which is rated Critical in severity, with the remaining six classified as Important. These bulletins will address (continue reading...) Read more
January 5, 2012 - Hello. Today we’re releasing our advance notification for the January security bulletin release, which is scheduled for Tuesday, January 10. This month’s release includes seven bulletins addressing eight vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Developer Tools And Software. As (continue reading...) Read more
December 30, 2011 - Hello, Today we published the December 2011 Out-of-Band Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page. We fielded 41 questions on the subject of MS11-100 . There were four questions during the webcast that we were unable to answer (continue reading...) Read more
December 30, 2011 - Hosts: Jonathan Ness, Security Development Manager, MSRC Pete Voss, Sr. Response Communications Manager, Trustworthy Computing Website: TechNet/Security Chat Topic: December 2011 Out-Of-Band Security Bulletin Release Date: Thursday, December 29, 2011 Q: How are Denial of Service, Tampering, Information Disclosure orSpoofing issues rated?A: (continue reading...) Read more
December 29, 2011 - Hello, Today we released Security Update MS11-100 to address the issue described in Security Advisory 2659883. The security update has a severity rating of Critical and resolves a publicly disclosed remote unauthenticated Denial of Service issue in ASP.NET versions 1.1 (continue reading...) Read more
December 28, 2011 - Hello, Today we’re providing advance notification for an out-of-band security update to address the publicly disclosed issue described in (continue reading...) Read more
December 28, 2011 - Hello, Today we published Security Advisory 2659883 to provide a workaround to help protect ASP.NET customers from a publicly disclosed vulnerability that affects various Web platforms industry-wide. We are not aware of any attacks using this vulnerability, which affects all (continue reading...) Read more
December 19, 2011 - Hello, Today we published the December Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page. We fielded six questions on various topics during the webcast, including bulletins released, deployment tools, and update detection tools. For more details on this month’s bulletins, click (continue reading...) Read more
December 15, 2011 - Hosts: Jonathan Ness, Security Development Manager, MSRC Jerry Bryant, Group Manager, Trustworthy Computing Communications Website: TechNet/Security Chat Topic: December 2011 Security Bulletin Release Date: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 Q: Some of my users had issues with text being deleted from Word documents. Is (continue reading...) Read more
December 13, 2011 - Hi everyone – Mike Reavey here. Today, we’re releasing our December set of security updates. As we do every month, we're providing a heads-up on what’s coming in this month’s release as well as offering links to more information so (continue reading...) Read more
December 13, 2011 - Hello. As I previously mentioned in the Advance Notification Service blog post on Thursday, today we are releasing 13 security bulletins, three of which are rated Critical in severity, and 10 Important. These bulletins will increase protection by addressing 19 (continue reading...) Read more
December 8, 2011 - Hello all. Before we look at next week’s bulletin release, we’d like to point out an update to our Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP) that should provide customers with greater transparency as to how (continue reading...) Read more
November 10, 2011 - Hi everyone, As a follow-up to Friday’s blog post, today we released Security Advisory 2641690 to notify customers that we revoked the trust of DigiCert Sdn.Bhd in an update that moves two Intermediate Certificate Authorities (CA) certificates to the Microsoft (continue reading...) Read more
November 8, 2011 - Hello, On this November Update Tuesday, we’re recapping the BlueHat conference, which Microsoft hosted in Redmond last week. We are also releasing four security updates, so please read on for details. Microsoft hosted its 11th installment of the BlueHat conference (continue reading...) Read more
November 3, 2011 - Hi everyone, Today we released Security Advisory 2639568 to provide customer guidance for the Windows kernel issue related to the Duqu malware. I would like to provide you information on how to protect your system(s), how we are addressing the (continue reading...) Read more
November 3, 2011 - Hi everyone, This post is to notify customers that Microsoft will revoke trust in an Intermediate Certificate Authority, DigiCert Sdn. Bhd. (Digicert Malaysia) in an update to be released (continue reading...) Read more
November 3, 2011 - Hello, As we do each month, we're providing advance notification on the release of four security bulletins, one Critical, two Important, and one Moderate, to address four CVEs in Windows. As usual, the bulletin release is scheduled for the second Tuesday (continue reading...) Read more
October 15, 2011 - Hello, Today we published the October Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page. We fielded eight questions across all bulletins. There was one question that we were unable to answer during (continue reading...) Read more
October 11, 2011 - Hello, On this October Update Tuesday, we are releasing the 11th volume of the Security Intelligence Report, SIRv11, which puts zero-day vulnerabilities into context against other global threats. We are also releasing eight security updates so (continue reading...) Read more