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Q&A from the January 2011 Security Bulletin Webcast

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Hello, Today we published the January Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page. We fielded five questions on various topics during the webcast. We invite our customers to join us for the next public webcast on Wednesday, February 9th at 11am PST (-8 UTC), when we will go into detail about the February bulletin release and answer questions live on the air.

January 2011 Security Bulletin Release

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Hello - Today as part of our monthly security bulletin release we have two bulletins addressing three vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows and Windows Server. This first bulletin is rated Important, while the second is rated Critical. MS11-001. This bulletin resolves one reported issue rated Important and affecting Windows Vista. This security bulletin addresses a vulnerability in Windows Backup Manager.

Q&A from the December 2010 Security Bulletin Webcast

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.

December 2010 Security Bulletin Release

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.

December 2010 Advance Notification Service is released

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.

Behind the Curtain of Second Tuesdays

Wednesday, December 01, 2010

Handle: Mando Picker IRL: Dustin Childs Rank: Security Program Manager Likes: Protecting customers, working with security researchers, second Tuesdays, bourbon, mandolins Dislikes: Using “It’s hard” as an excuse, quitting when it gets tough, banjos Hello All, I enjoy telling stories. Perhaps, in a former life, I spent time as a bard telling stories of Robin Hood and Maid Marian as I travelled from town to town.

Q&A from the October 2010 Security Bulletin Webcast

Monday, October 18, 2010

Hello, Today we published the October 2010 Security Bulleting webcast Questions & Answers page. The October release included 16 security updates, four rated Critical, ten rated Important, and two rated Moderate to address 49 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Internet Explorer, and Microsoft .NET Framework. We invite our customers to join us for the next public webcast on Wednesday, November 10 @11AM PST when we will go into detail about the November bulletin release and answer questions live on the air.

October 2010 Security Bulletin Release

Monday, October 11, 2010

Hello - Today, as part of our regular monthly security bulletin release process, we are releasing 16 comprehensive updates addressing 49 vulnerabilities affecting Windows, Internet Explorer (IE), Microsoft Office, and the .NET Framework. This release represents our commitment to provide predictable, high-quality updates as part of the service our customers get when they buy Microsoft products.

Q&A from the September 2010 Out-of-Band Security Release webcast

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Hello, Below you will find the webcast we conducted earlier this week as part of the MS10-070 Security Update which was released Out-of-Band. We have also published the questions and answers from that webcast and linked them here. The response for this webcast was amazing; however, due to time constraints, we were unable to answer all of the questions that were asked during the live webcast.