Tuesday, January 19, 2010
We wanted to provide a quick update on the threat landscape and announce that we will release a security update out-of-band to help protect customers from this vulnerability. Based on our comprehensive monitoring of the threat landscape we continue to see very limited, and in some cases, targeted attacks. To date, the only successful attacks that we are aware of have been against Internet Explorer 6.
Friday, January 15, 2010
Hosts: Dustin Childs, Security Program Manager Jerry Bryant, Senior Security Program Manager Lead Website: TechNet/security Chat Topic: January 2010 Security Bulletins Date: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 Q: Will installing the latest version of Adobe Flash Player uninstall Adobe Flash Player 6, or am I required to use the removal tool first before installing?
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Summary of Microsoft’s Security Bulletin Release for January 2010 Hi Everyone, We hope that 2010 is off to a good start for you. For our first bulletin release of the New Year, we have one Critical bulletin affecting all versions of Windows. The bulletin, MS10-001, addresses one vulnerability in the Embedded OpenType Font Engine and is Critical on Windows 2000.
Thursday, January 07, 2010
Advance Notification for the January 2010 Security Bulletin Release It may be a new year but here in the Microsoft Security Response Center, it is business as usual. This month we have one bulletin addressing a single vulnerability in Windows. The vulnerability is critical on Windows 2000 and low for all other platforms.
Monday, December 14, 2009
Handle: Avatar IRL: Karl Hanmore Rank: Senior Security Strategist (aka Sergeant Grunt) Likes: Getting the job done, bringing the fight to the bad guys, good single malt whiskey Dislikes: Cowards, talkers not doers, red tape, humidity G’day, or should I say howdy, y’all. As the newest member of the Microsoft EcoStrat team, I figured I would do a quick self-introduction before getting down to work.
Friday, December 11, 2009
Hosts: Adrian Stone, Senior Security Program Manager Lead Jerry Bryant, Senior Security Program Manager Lead Website: TechNet/security Chat Topic: December 2009 Security Bulletins Date: Wednesday, December 9, 2009 Q: In reference to Windows Vista ** KB973565, we have machines that install this update, then reboot and uninstall the update. Is this a known problem?
Tuesday, December 08, 2009
Summary of Microsoft’s Security Bulletin Release for December 2009 As noted in our Advance Notification (ANS) last Thursday, for the December bulletin release we issued six security bulletins addressing 12 vulnerabilities. Affected products include Windows, Internet Explorer (IE) and Microsoft Office products. In the ANS, we also noted that the bulletin for IE (MS09-072) is at the top of our deployment priority list this month.
Thursday, December 03, 2009
Advance Notification for the December 2009 Security Bulletin Release For December we are planning to release six new security bulletins addressing 12 vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer (IE) and Microsoft Office products. Three of the bulletins have a maximum severity rating of Critical and three have a maximum severity rating of Important.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Hosts: Adrian Stone, Senior Security Program Manager Lead Jerry Bryant, Senior Security Program Manager Lead Website: TechNet/security Chat Topic: November 2009 Security Bulletin Date: Wednesday, November 11, 2009** Q: It looks like MS09-063 is only vulnerable to attacks via the local subnet, so is a Vista computer connected via Wi-Fi with the network configured as public, vulnerable?
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Summary of Microsoft’s Security Bulletin Release for November 2009 Today, we released six security bulletins addressing a total of 15 vulnerabilities. Four affect Windows and Windows Server and two affect Microsoft Office products (Excel and Word). As we do every month, we have prepared our Risk & Impact and our Deployment Priority guidance to help customers assess risk to their environments and prioritize the deployment of this month’s updates.
