Friday, July 12, 2013
Today we’re publishing the July 2013 Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page. During the webcast, we fielded 10 questions covering all updates. All questions are included on the Q&A page. We invite our customers to join us for the next scheduled webcast on Wednesday, August 14th at 11 a.m. PT (UTC -8), when we will go into detail about the August 2013 bulletin release and answer questions live on the air.
Tuesday, July 09, 2013
There are those I’ve met who think my life is something akin to the classic comedy Groundhog Day. No, I don’t wake up to the musical stylings of Sonny and Cher each morning, but month after month after month, the second Tuesday rolls around and I’m involved in releasing security updates.
Friday, June 14, 2013
Today we’re publishing the June 2013 Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page. We fielded three questions during the webcast, with specific questions focusing primarily on Windows Print Spooler (MS13-050), Microsoft Office (MS13-051), and the security advisory addressing digital certificates (SA2854544). There was one question we were unable to field on the air which we answered on the Q&A page.
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
It was just over one year ago, May 28, 2012, to be exact, that I transitioned from running active MSRC cases and writing bulletins to my current role managing software security incidents. A lot has changed in that year*- _and I’ve dealt with some interesting issues during my tenure* - _but our goal of providing the best customer protections possible remains a constant.
Friday, May 17, 2013
For those who couldn’t attend the live webcast, today we’re publishing the May 2013 Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page. We fielded 13 questions on various topics during the webcast, with specific bulletin questions focusing primarily on Internet Explorer (MS13-037 and MS13-038) and Visio (MS13-044). We invite our customers to join us for the next public webcast on Wednesday, June 12, 2013, at 11 a.
Thursday, May 09, 2013
Today we’re providing Advance Notification of 10 bulletins for release on Tuesday, May 14, 2013. This release brings two Critical and eight Important-class bulletins, which address 33 unique vulnerabilities. The Critical-rated bulletins address issues in Microsoft Windows and Internet Explorer. Of note, we are working to have the Internet Explorer Security Update address the issue described in Security Advisory 2847140, supplementing the currently available Fix it.
Friday, March 15, 2013
Today we’re publishing the March 2013 Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page. We fielded 13 questions on various topics during the webcast, with specific bulletin questions focusing primarily on Internet Explorer (MS13-021), SharePoint (MS13-024) and the update for Kernel-Mode Drivers in MS13-027. There were six additional questions during the webcast that we were unable to answer on air, and we have also answered those on the Q&A page.
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Today we’re publishing the January 2013 Out-of-Band Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page. During the webcast, we fielded 17 questions focusing on Security Update MS13-088, and SecurityAdvisory 2794220 which was deprecated by this update release. All questions and answers are included in the transcript. We invite our customers to join us for the next scheduled webcast on Wednesday, February 13th at 11 a.
Monday, January 14, 2013
Today, we released MS13-008 to address the issue described in Security Advisory 2794220. We’ve seen only a limited number of attacks through an issue in Internet Explorer 6-8, but the potential exists that more customers could be affected. The majority of customers have automatic updates enabled and will not need to take any action because protections will be downloaded and installed automatically.
Friday, January 11, 2013
Today we’re publishing the January2013 Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page. During the webcast, we fielded 12 questions focusing primarily on the Print Spooler (MS12-001) and .NET Framework (MS13-004) updates. All questions are included on the Q&A page. We invite our customers to join us for the next scheduled webcast on Wednesday, February 13th at 11 a.
