Monday, December 17, 2012
Hello, Today we’re publishing the December 2012 Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page. During the webcast, we fielded five questions focusing primarily on Microsoft Word and the Office compatibility pack in MS12-079. All questions are included on the Q&A page. We invite our customers to join us for the next public webcast on Wednesday, January 9th at 11 a.
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:
Thursday, October 04, 2012
Today we’re providing advance notification of the release of seven bulletins, one Critical and six Important, which address 20 vulnerabilities for October 2012. The Critical bulletin addresses vulnerabilities in Microsoft Word. The six Important-rated bulletins will address issues in Windows, Microsoft Office, and SQL Server. This release will also address the issue in FAST Search Server first described in Security Advisory 2737111.
Friday, September 21, 2012
Today we released Security Advisory 2755801 that addresses vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player in Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 8. The majority of customers have automatic updates enabled and will not need to take any action because protections will be downloaded and installed automatically. Customers who do not use automatic updates should apply the guidance in the advisory immediately using update management software, or by checking the Microsoft Update service, to help ensure protection.
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
As I previously mentioned in the Advance Notification blog on Thursday, today we are releasing two security bulletins, both of which are rated Important. These bulletins will increase protection by addressing two unique vulnerabilities in the following Microsoft products: MS12-061 (Visual Studio Team Foundation Server) This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Visual Studio Team Foundation Server.
Friday, August 17, 2012
Hello. Today we’re publishing the August 2012 Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page. During the webcast, we fielded twelve questions focusing primarily on MS12-060 covering Windows Common Controls, MS12-052 regarding Internet Explorer, and Security Advisory 2661254 addressing trust certificates with RSA keys less than 1024 bit key lengths. Three additional questions were answered after the webcast.
Thursday, May 17, 2012
As a part of the Industry Consortium for Advancement of Security on the Internet (ICASI), Microsoft is pleased to present an initial set of monthly security updates – originally released on May 8 – in the consortium’s newly established Common Vulnerability Reporting Framework (CVRF) format, for your examination and feedback. Today, ICASI released version 1.
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).
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Ever wondered where Update Tuesday bulletins come from, or what it’s like around Microsoft when a serious information-security situation arises? Or wondered who precisely is responsible for getting your monthly bulletin releases out the door? Update Tuesday, which brings us here today, is one of the most prominent results of that famous Bill Gates memo that put security at the center of Microsoft’s development and support efforts – just over 10 years ago.
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Hello. As I previously mentioned in the Advance Notification Service blog post on Thursday, today we are releasing 13 security bulletins, three of which are rated Critical in severity, and 10 Important. These bulletins will increase protection by addressing 19 unique vulnerabilities in Microsoft products. Customers should plan to install all of these updates as soon as possible.
