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Security Bulletin MS10-018 Released

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Hi everyone, Today we released MS10-018 out-of-band due to increases in attacks against Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7 using the vulnerability discussed in Security Advisory 981374. I want to reiterate that Internet Explorer 8 is not affected by this issue so customers using this version are not affected by these attacks and we continue to encourage customers to upgrade to the newer version because it provides more security and protection.

March 2010 Security Bulletin Webcast

Monday, March 15, 2010

Hello, Today we published the Questions & Answers from the March 2010 Security Bulleting webcast. We answered a total of 13 questions concerning the March bulletins and open Security Advisories. No particular themes emerged from the questions but there were some good ones so please review them. The video covers the core part of the presentation Adrian Stone and I gave during the webcast.

Monthly Security Bulletin Webcast Q&A - February 2010

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Hosts: Adrian Stone, Senior Security Program Manager Lead Jerry Bryant, Senior Security Communications Manager Lead Website: TechNet/security Chat Topic: February 2010 Security Bulletin Release Date: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 Q: MS10-003 supersedes MS09-062 which was released for Windows in addition to Office. Does MS10-003 supersede only the Office XP components of MS09-062 or does it supersede all of MS09-062?

February 2010 Security Bulletin Release

Tuesday, February 09, 2010

MSRC Bulletin Release Blog Post Hi everyone, As mentioned in our ANS blog post last week, today we are releasing 13 bulletins addressing 26 vulnerabilities. 11 bulletins affect Windows and 2 affect older versions of Microsoft Office. In the post on Thursday, we mentioned that bulletins in the ANS listed as 1, 2, 3, and 6 were going to top our deployment priority list this month.

Monthly Security Bulletin Webcast Q&A - January, 2010

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?

Monthly Security Bulletin Webcast Q&A - December 2009

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?

November 2009 Bulletin Release Advance Notification

Thursday, November 05, 2009

Advance Notification for the November 2009 Security Bulletin Release To help customers plan and prioritize for this month’s security updates, we wanted to let you know that we will be releasing 6 bulletins (three critical and three important) addressing 15 vulnerabilities, affecting Windows and Microsoft Office products. Customers should plan a restart for the Windows bulletins.

October 2009 Security Bulletin Webcast Questions and Answers

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Hi everyone. We have posted the questions and answers from the security bulletin webcast we conducted on October 14 at this link. It was clear from all of the questions concerning MS09-062 (the GDI+ update) that there is some confusion on how to apply the update when you have a combination of SQL Server and Windows 2000 clients.

September 2009 Security Bulletin Webcast Video and Customer Q and A

Friday, September 11, 2009

In the September 2009 security bulletin webcast, it was clear that customers had a lot of concerns about MS09-048 as almost half the questions we answered were on that topic. The questions and answers from the session are now posted here on the blog. As we mentioned in the webcast, The MS09-048 bulletin has been updated to call out Windows XP in the affected products list with a severity rating of low for the two Denial-of-Service vulnerabilities (the third, Remote Code Execution vulnerability, does not affect XP).

Monthly Security Bulletin Webcast Q&A - September 2009

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Hosts: Adrian Stone, Senior Security Program Manager Lead Jerry Bryant, Senior Security Program Manager Lead Website: TechNet/security Chat Topic: September 2009 Security Bulletin Date: Wednesday, September 9, 2009 Q: For MS09-048 how do we mitigate this with Windows 2000 Server since Microsoft will not be producing a patch? Do we have any prescriptive guidance?