Monday, April 04, 2011
Hi all – We’re pleased to announce the release of the new Microsoft Security Update Guide, Second Edition. Fully revised and updated from the first edition, which was released in 2009, this edition focuses on best practices for prioritizing and testing security updates before deployment within your organization’s IT environment.
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Hello - Today we’re releasing Security Advisory 2524375, to address nine fraudulent digital certificates issued by Comodo Group Inc, a root certificate authority. Comodo has since revoked the digital certificates. This is not a Microsoft security vulnerability; however, one of the certificates potentially affects Windows Live ID users via login.live.com. These certificates may be used to spoof content, perform phishing attacks, or perform man-in-the-middle attacks against end users.
Friday, March 11, 2011
Hello, Today we published the March Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page. We fielded five questions on various topics during the webcast, including bulletins released, deployment tools, and update detection tools. We invite our customers to join us for the next public webcast on Wednesday, April 13th at 11am PDT (-8 UTC), when we will go into detail about the March bulletin release and answer questions live on the air.
Tuesday, March 08, 2011
Hello all – Today, as part of our monthly security bulletin release, we have three bulletins addressing four vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office. One bulletin is rated Critical, and this is the bulletin we recommend for priority deployment: MS11-015. This bulletin resolves one Critical-level and one Important-level vulnerability affecting certain media files in all versions of Microsoft Windows.
Thursday, March 03, 2011
Hello all – Today, as part of our usual monthly bulletin cadence, we are providing our Advance Notification Service for March’s security bulletins. This month we’ll release three bulletins, one of them rated Critical and two rated Important, addressing issues in Microsoft Windows and Office. We’ll close four vulnerabilities with those bulletins.
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Hello, Today we published the February Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page. We fielded 12 questions on various topics during the webcast, including bulletins released, deployment tools, and update detection tools. We invite our customers to join us for the next public webcast on Wednesday, March 9th at 11am PST (-8 UTC), when we will go into detail about the March bulletin release and answer questions live on the air.
Tuesday, February 08, 2011
Hi! I’m Adam Shostack, a program manager working in TWC Security, and I’d like to talk a bit about today’s AutoRun update. Normally, I post over on the SDL blog, but of late I’ve been doing a lot of work in classifying and quantifying how Windows computers get compromised. One thing that popped from that analysis was the proportion of infected machines with malware that uses Autorun to propagate.
Tuesday, February 08, 2011
Hello all – Today, as part of our monthly security bulletin release, we have 12 bulletins addressing 22 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Office, Internet Explorer, and IIS (Internet Information Services). Three bulletins are rated Critical, and these are the bulletins we recommend for priority deployment: o MS11-003. This bulletin resolves three critical-level and moderate-level vulnerabilities affecting all versions of Internet Explorer.
Thursday, February 03, 2011
Hello all - Today, as part of our usual monthly bulletin cadence, we are providing our Advance Notification Service for February’s security bulletins. This month, we’ll release 12 bulletins, three of them rated Critical and nine rated Important, addressing issues in Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer, Office, Visual Studio, and IIS. 22 issues will be addressed.
Friday, January 28, 2011
Hello. Today we’re releasing Security Advisory 2501696, which describes a publicly disclosed scripting vulnerability affecting all versions of Microsoft Windows. The main impact of the vulnerability is unintended information disclosure. We’re aware of published information and proof-of-concept code that attempts to exploit this vulnerability, but we haven’t seen any indications of active exploitation.
