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Bulletin Management Process and the May 2012 Bulletins

Tuesday, May 08, 2012

Hello, Have you ever wondered why bulletins group particular issues together? Or one set of products and not another? Well today Jonathan Ness has posted an insightful Security Research & Defense (SRD) blog discussing some of the nuances and packaging decisions that went into MS12-034. This is a particularly interesting case to dive into and will give readers a better appreciation for the bulletin management process here at Microsoft.

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MS12-034: Duqu, ten CVE's, and removing keyboard layout file attack surface

Tuesday, May 08, 2012

There are several interesting “stories” to tell about security update MS12-034: Addressing the Duqu vulnerability again? Why so many affected products? Keyboard layout behavior introduced with Windows Vista conditionally applied down-level Addressing the Duqu vulnerability again? Five months ago, we released security update MS11-087 to address CVE-2011-3402, a vulnerability that was being exploited by the Duqu malware to execute arbitrary code when a user opened a malicious Office document.

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Advanced Notification Service for May 2012 Security Bulletin Release

Thursday, May 03, 2012

Hello, Today we’re releasing our advance notification for the May security bulletin release, which is scheduled for Tuesday, May 8. This month’s release includes 7 bulletins addressing 23 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Office, Silverlight, and .NET Framework. All 7 bulletins will be released on Tuesday, May 8 at approximately 10 a.

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MAPP Update: Taking Action to Decrease Risk of Information Disclosure

Thursday, May 03, 2012

During our investigation into the disclosure of confidential data shared with our Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP) partners, we determined that a member of the MAPP program, Hangzhou DPTech Technologies Co., Ltd., had breached our non-disclosure agreement (NDA). Microsoft takes breaches of our NDAs very seriously and has removed this partner from the MAPP Program.

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