April 7, 2010 - Hi everyone, I am just writing to formally announce that we have launched a Twitter account: @MSFTSecResponse We will use this account to augment the content here on the blog. For example, we will use the account (continue reading...) Read more
April 5, 2010 - Hi everyone, Last week Adrian Stone and I conducted a webcast to cover the Internet Explorer out-of-band security bulletin release. We only spent a short period of timing on the presentation and then spent the rest of the time (continue reading...) Read more
March 30, 2010 - Hi everyone, Today we released MS10-018 out-of-band due to increases in attacks against Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7 using the vulnerability discussed in Security Advisory 981374. I want to reiterate that Internet Explorer 8 is (continue reading...) Read more
March 29, 2010 - Today we issued our Advanced Notification Service (ANS) to advise customers that we (continue reading...) Read more
March 15, 2010 - Hello, Today we published the Questions & Answers from the March 2010 Security Bulleting webcast. We answered a total of 13 questions concerning the March bulletins and open Security Advisories. No particular themes emerged from the questions but (continue reading...) Read more
March 12, 2010 - Hi everyone, I’m writing to let you know that we have updated Security Advisory 981374 with new workaround information. We are aware that exploit code has been made public for this issue. As with our last update, Internet Explorer (continue reading...) 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 (continue reading...) Read more
March 9, 2010 - Hi everyone, Today we released Security Advisory 981374 addressing a publicly disclosed vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6 and (continue reading...) 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 (continue reading...) Read more
March 2, 2010 - Hi, I am writing to let you know that we have revised the installation packages for MS10-015 with new logic that prevents the security update from being installed on systems if certain abnormal conditions exist. Such conditions could (continue reading...) 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 (continue reading...) 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 (continue reading...) Read more
February 17, 2010 - Hi, We wanted to provide you with an update on (continue reading...) Read more
February 12, 2010 - In our continuing investigation in to the restart issues related to MS10-015 that a limited number of customers are experiencing, we have determined that malware on the system can cause the (continue reading...) 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 (continue reading...) 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 (continue reading...) 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. (continue reading...) 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 (continue reading...) 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 (continue reading...) 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 (continue reading...) Read more