Thursday, January 06, 2011
Hello everyone - It’s a new year and the Microsoft Security Response Center is ready to provide the Advance Notice for January’s security bulletins. We have two bulletins addressing three vulnerabilities in Windows. The first bulletin is Important and affects Windows Vista. The second bulletin has an aggregate of Critical and all supported versions of Windows are affected.
Tuesday, January 04, 2011
Hello - Today we released Security Advisory 2490606, which addresses a publicly disclosed vulnerability affecting Microsoft Windows Graphics Rendering Engine on Vista, Server 2003, and Windows XP. We are not aware of any affected customers, nor of any active attacks targeting customers. The vulnerability does not affect Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2, the newest versions of our operating system.
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Hello, Today we released Security Advisory 2488013 to address a public vulnerability that could affect customers using Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8 if they visit a website hosting malicious code. Currently the impact of this vulnerability is limited and we are not aware of any affected customers or active attacks targeting customers.
Friday, December 17, 2010
Hello, Today we published the December 2010 Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page. We fielded 17 questions, most concerning the Internet Explorer update and the re-releases of bulletins this month. We invite our customers to join us for the next public webcast on Wednesday, January 12 at 11am PST (-8 UTC), when we will go into detail about the December bulletin release and answer questions live on the air.
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Hello everyone – We’re really excited to announce that Office File Validation, currently part of Office 2010, will soon be made available for Office 2003 and 2007. During development of Office 2010, the Office Team, in conjunction with members of the Microsoft Engineering Center (MSEC) organization, performed a number of actions to increase protections for file parsing code.
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Hi everyone. As part of our usual cycle of monthly security updates, today Microsoft is releasing 17 bulletins addressing 40 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Office, Internet Explorer, SharePoint Server and Exchange. Two of those bulletins carry a Critical rating, while 14 are rated Important and one is rated Moderate. We’ve assigned our highest deployment priority to the two Critical bulletins, though we recommend that customers deploy all updates as soon as possible.
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
In November 2010, Microsoft released the first Security Bulletin (MS10-079) against an Office 2010 component, in this case Microsoft Word. Approximately 6 months had elapsed since Office 2010 launched in May and while it’s good for such a widely used product to be available for so long without any reported issues, we were naturally disappointed to release the first bulletin affecting Office 2010.
Thursday, December 09, 2010
Hi everyone. Mike Reavey from the MSRC here. Today we’re releasing our Advance Notification Service for the December 2010 security bulletin release. As we do every month, we’ve given information about the coming December release and provided links to detailed information so you can plan your deployment by product, service pack level, and severity.
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Hello, Today we published theNovember 2010 Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page. You’ll notice it was a fairly brief webcast; all the questions we received concerned installation specifics, which we especially appreciate as a sign that customers are updating their systems quickly. We invite our customers to join us for the next public webcast on Wednesday, December 15 at 11am PST (-8 UTC), when we will go into detail about the December bulletin release and answer questions live on the air.
Tuesday, November 09, 2010
Hello all. As part of our usual cycle of monthly updates, today Microsoft is releasing three security bulletins, addressing 11 vulnerabilities. One of the bulletins has a Critical severity rating, while the other two are rated Important. Recapping the trio: MS10-087 This bulletin resolves five issues affecting all currently supported Microsoft Office products.
