Thursday, August 09, 2007
Hello, This is Christopher Budd. Today, August 9, 2007 is the Thursday before the scheduled August bulletin release day, August 14, 2007. As we do each month, today we’ve posted our Advance Notification for the August 2007 release. Next Tuesday, we’re currently planning to release nine security bulletins: · Six Microsoft Security Bulletins affecting Microsoft Windows with a Maximum Severity rating of Critical.
Thursday, July 19, 2007
Hey, Andrew Cushman here. It’s that time of year again. The kids are out of school, most folks are planning for that August vacation, and the MSRC (and Microsoft) are headed to Vegas for Black Hat. This year’s event will be a new experience for me. Although I’ve been to lots of Black Hat conferences – this is the first time I go wearing both hats of director of MSRC and director of outreach to the security community.
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
July 2007 Monthly Release Hello everyone, This is Christopher Budd and I wanted to let you know that we’ve posted our bulletins for the July 2007 monthly release. This month, we’ve released six new bulletins. Three of these have a maximum severity of Critical MS07-036: This security update resolves three vulnerabilities that could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Excel file.
Thursday, July 05, 2007
Hello, This is Christopher Budd. Today, July 5, 2007 is the Thursday before the scheduled July bulletin release day, July 10, 2007. As we do each month, today we’ve posted our Advance Notification for the July 2007 release. Next Tuesday, we’re currently planning to release six security bulletins: · Three Microsoft Security Bulletins affecting Microsoft Windows with a Maximum Severity rating of Critical.
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
I’m Simon, Release Manager in the MSRC. The June security release also marks 1 year for me here, so I figured it was high time that I should take my turn posting. June’s release contains 6 new bulletins, 4 of which have maximum severities of “Critical”. MS07-030 Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Visio Could Allow Remote Code Execution (927051) MS07-031 Vulnerability in the Windows Schannel Security Package Could Allow Remote Code Execution (935840) MS07-032 Vulnerability in Windows Vista Could Allow Information Disclosure (931213) MS07-033 Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (933566) MS07-034 Cumulative Security Update for Outlook Express and Windows Mail (929123) MS07-035 Vulnerability in Win 32 API Could Allow Remote Code Execution (935839) Additionally we are re-releasing two bulletins:
Thursday, June 07, 2007
Hello, Mark Griesi again. If it’s the Thursday before the 2nd Tuesday then it must be ANS day. And that must mean that we’ve posted our Advance Notification for June 2007. In it, we try to provide you with information about what we’re planning to release on Tuesday to help with your resource planning.
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Hello everyone, This is Christopher Budd. I wanted to let you know we’ve just posted a couple of Security Advisories related to important updates. We often use Security Advisories to let you know when we’re aware of security incidents that can affect customers. We also use Security Advisories to let you know about important information that can relate to your overall security.
Thursday, May 17, 2007
Hello there, Since this is my first post, I suppose a quick introduction is in order. I am Mark Griesi, a member of the Security Response Communications Team. My role on the team is much the same as my colleague Christopher Budd, who I know you are all familiar with.
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Hello everyone, This is Mark Miller again to let you know about some additional changes we are making this month. In April, we announced changes to our blog site. This month we are announcing changes to our Advanced Notification Service (ANS) as well as some changes we are planning to make to the format of our security bulletins in June.
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Hello everyone, this is Christopher Budd. I wanted to let people know that as part of our regular process, we’ve made an update to the Master KB article for MS07-027, 931768. Specifically, we’ve added an entry pointing to a new KB article, 937409, that discusses an issue that can occur for IE 7 customers who have changed the default locations of the “Temporary Internet Files” after they apply MS07-027.
