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Advance Notification Service for April 2012 security bulletin release

Thursday, April 05, 2012

Hello, Today we’re releasing our advance notification for the April security bulletin release, which is scheduled for Tuesday, April 10. This month’s release includes 6 bulletins addressing 11 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer, Forefront UAG, and .NET Framework. All 6 bulletins will be released on Tuesday, April 10 at approximately 10 a.

BlueHat Prize entries: The final tally is…

Tuesday, April 03, 2012

Handle: k8e IRL: Katie Moussouris Rank: Senior Security Strategist Lead, Head of Microsoft’s Security Community and Strategy Team Likes: Cool vulns, BlueHat, soldering irons, quantum teleportation Dislikes: Rudeness, socks-n-sandals, licorice The entries are in! After a last-minute wave of fresh entries to the first-ever BlueHat Prize, the final count for this year’s contest stands at twenty qualified proposals.

BlueHat Prize: And now the fun begins

Tuesday, April 03, 2012

The entry window for the first annual BlueHat Prize closed at 11:59pm PDT on April 1. We’ve been eagerly awaiting a final entry count from the contest organizers, and senior security strategist Katie Moussouris has just posted that tally on the EcoStrat blog. Congratulations to all participants and good luck to the BlueHat Prize Board, which finds itself eyebrow-deep in exciting new defensive-security ideas as the competition judging process begins.

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Monday, March 26, 2012

Nearly nine months after we announced the first annual BlueHat Prize competition for innovations in defensive security technologies, we’re just days away from the submission deadline. On the EcoStrat blog today, Senior Security Strategist Katie Moussouris gives a glimpse into the frantic final days of the competition period. If you’re working on your own entry (deadline April 1!

Peace Games - BlueHat Prize Update and Countdown

Monday, March 26, 2012

Handle: k8e IRL: Katie Moussouris Rank: Senior Security Strategist Lead, Head of Microsoft’s Security Community and Strategy Team Likes: Cool vulns, BlueHat, soldering irons, quantum teleportation Dislikes: Rudeness, socks-n-sandals, licorice In the film WarGames, an artificial intelligence program named Joshua asked the main character, a teenage hacker, the now famous question, “Shall we play a game?

March 2012 Security Bulletin Webcast and Q&A

Friday, March 16, 2012

Hello, Today we published the March Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page. During the webcast, we fielded twelve questions focusing on MS12-020 (aka “the RDP update”). Two additional questions for MS12-022 regarding Microsoft Expression Design were answered after the webcast. All questions are included on the Q&A page. We invite our customers to join us for the next public webcast on Wednesday, April 11, 2012 at 11am PDT (UTC -7), when we will go into detail about the April bulletin release and answer questions live on the air.