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Security Advisory 2718704: Collision attack details, WU update rollout

Wednesday, June 06, 2012

Today, as a part of our continuing phased mitigation strategy recently discussed, we have initiated the additional hardening of Windows Update. We’ve also provided more information about the MD5 hash-collision attacks used by the Flame malware in the SRD blog. This information should help answer questions from customers about the nature of these collision attacks.

Security Advisory 2718704: Update to Phased Mitigation Strategy

Monday, June 04, 2012

Hello, At Microsoft, our commitment is to help ensure customer trust in their computing experience. That was the impetus for Trustworthy Computing, and central to that is the priority we place on taking the necessary actions to help protect our customers. Yesterday, we issued Security Advisory 2718704 outlining the steps we took to help protect our customers from attacks using certain unauthorized digital certificates.

Microsoft certification authority signing certificates added to the Untrusted Certificate Store

Sunday, June 03, 2012

Today, we released Security Advisory 2718704, notifying customers that unauthorized digital certificates have been found that chain up to a Microsoft sub-certification authority issued under the Microsoft Root Authority. With this blog post, we’d like to dig into more technical aspects of this situation, potential risks to your enterprise, and actions you can take to protect yourself against any potential attacks that would leverage unauthorized certificates signed by Microsoft.

Microsoft releases Security Advisory 2718704

Sunday, June 03, 2012

Hello, We recently became aware of a complex piece of targeted malware known as “Flame” and immediately began examining the issue. As many reports assert, Flame has been used in highly sophisticated and targeted attacks and, as a result, the vast majority of customers are not at risk. Additionally, most antivirus products will detect and remove this malware.

Microsoft security updates and the Common Vulnerability Reporting Framework

Thursday, May 17, 2012

As a part of the Industry Consortium for Advancement of Security on the Internet (ICASI), Microsoft is pleased to present an initial set of monthly security updates – originally released on May 8 – in the consortium’s newly established Common Vulnerability Reporting Framework (CVRF) format, for your examination and feedback. Today, ICASI released version 1.

Introducing EMET v3

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

We are pleased to announce the release of a new version of our Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) - EMET 3.0. EMET it is a free utility that helps prevent vulnerabilities in software from being successfully exploited for code execution. It does so by opt-ing in software to the latest security mitigation technologies.

May 2012 Security Bulletin Webcast, Slide Deck, and Q&A

Friday, May 11, 2012

Hello, Today we published the May Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page, and the May 2012 Security Bulletin Release Webcast slide deck. During the webcast, we fielded 8 questions on various topics, including bulletins released, deployment tools, and update detection tools. We invite our customers to join us for the next public webcast on Wednesday, June 13 at 11am PDT (UTC -7), when we will go into detail about the June bulletin release and answer questions live on the air.