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November 2012 Bulletin Release

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Security Updates Today we released six security bulletins to help protect our customers - four Critical, one Important, and one Moderate – addressing 19 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows Shell, Windows Kernel, Internet Explorer, Internet Information Services (IIS), .NET Framework, and Excel. For those who need to prioritize deployment, we recommend focusing on these two Critical updates first:

Advance Notification Service for November 2012 Security Bulletin Release

Thursday, November 08, 2012

Today, we’re providing advance notification for six bulletins to help protect customers against 19 CVEs. The four Critical-rated updates will address 13 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer and the .NET Framework. One bulletin rated Important will address four vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office and finally, one Moderate update will address two issues in Microsoft Windows.

Welcome to the 1024-bit world and the October security updates

Tuesday, October 09, 2012

As previously mentioned in the Advance Notification blog on Thursday, today we’re releasing seven bulletins, one Critical-class and six Important-class bulletins. Before we discuss those releases, let’s take a closer look at the Security Advisories we also released today. Security Advisory 2661254 We began discussing this issue in June, and originally released this advisory in August.

Advance Notification Service for August 2012 Security Bulletin Release

Thursday, August 09, 2012

Today we’re providing advanced notification on the release of nine bulletins, five Critical and four Important, for August 2012. The five Critical security bulletins are addressing ten vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer, Exchange, SQL Server, Server Software, and Developer Tools. The bulletin for Exchange will address the issue first described in Security Advisory 2737111.

Strength, flexibility and the March 2012 security bulletins

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Hello. Today we’re releasing six security bulletins – one Critical-class, four Important and one Moderate – addressing seven issues in Microsoft Windows, Visual Studio, and Expression Design. We recommend that customers focus on MS12-020, our sole critical-class bulletin, as the March deployment priority. A little about MS12-020: MS12-020 (Windows) : This bulletin addresses one Critical-class issue and one Moderate-class issue in Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP).

A live BlueHat Prize webcast and the August 2011 security updates

Tuesday, August 09, 2011

Hello all. It has been very nearly a week since our BlueHat Prize contest announcement at Black Hat. Now that everyone’s had some time to digest the basics, we’ve asked Senior Security Strategist and chief BlueHat Prize architect Katie Moussouris to stop by the Trustworthy Computing studio today at 11 a.

Rustock updates and Advance Notification Service for the July 2011 Security Bulletin Release

Thursday, July 07, 2011

Hello all – This week we released a special Security Intelligence Reportthat showcases some of the data we amassed in the wake of the big Rustock botnet takedown in the spring of 2010. The new SIR also delves into the diplomacy, secrecy and intellectual property law that all played important roles in the successful international effort that led to the takedown of the Rustock botnet on March 16.

Q&A from April 2011 Security Bulletin Webcast

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Hello, Today we published the April Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page. We fielded 14 questions on various topics during the webcast, including bulletins released, deployment tools, and update detection tools. There were two questions during the webcast that we were unable to answer and we have included those questions and answers on the QA page.

March 2011 Security Bulletin Release

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.

Advance Notification Service for the March 2011 Security Bulletin Release

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.