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Month Archives: July 2012

Microsoft's continuing work on digital certificates

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Over the past several months, Microsoft has made changes both to our own internal PKI practices and to the Windows Update channel (client-side and server-side) PKI handling. You’ve likely already read about those changes on the MSRC blog, the Microsoft Update blog, and in the associated KB articles (949104, 2720211).

MSXML - 5 steps to stay protected

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Today Microsoft provided nine bulletin updates, as described in July’s Security Bulletin Summary. This post is going to focus on the first of the issues described in the above summary - Vulnerability in Microsoft XML Core Services Could Allow Remote Code Execution. Step 1 – Be informed MS12-043 describes the security update that resolves a publicly disclosed vulnerability in Microsoft XML Core Services.

Advance Notification Service for July 2012 Security Bulletin Release

Thursday, July 05, 2012

Hello – As per our usual cadence, today we’re releasing our advance notification for this month’s security bulletin release, which is scheduled for Tuesday, July 10. The July release includes nine bulletins addressing 16 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer, and Visual Basic for Applications. We will release all nine bulletins on Tuesday at approximately 10 a.