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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.

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 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.

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.

Microsoft Releases MS10-070 to all distribution channels

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Hi everyone - Today we released out-of-band Security Update MS10-070through the remainder of our standard distribution channels, including Windows Update and Windows Server Update Services. We have completed our testing of these channels and confirmed the update can be successfully downloaded. Customers are strongly encouraged to download the Security Update, test it in their environments and deploy it as quickly as possible.

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.

MS10-070 Released Out-of-Band Today

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Hello, As we announced yesterday, today we released Security Bulletin MS10-070 out-of-band to address a vulnerability in ASP.NET. The bulletin and the blog by Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s .NET Developer Platform are available for more information. This security update addresses a vulnerability affecting all versions of the .

Out of Band Release to Address Microsoft Security Advisory 2416728

Sunday, September 26, 2010

Hello - Today we provided advance notification to customers that we will release an out-of-band security update to address the vulnerability discussed in Security Advisory 2416728. The update is scheduled for release tomorrow, Tuesday, September 28, 2010 at approximately 10:00 AM PDT. The bulletin has a severity rating of Important and addresses a publicly disclosed vulnerability in ASP.

September 2010 Security Bulletin Release

Monday, September 13, 2010

Hi everyone, With this month’s bulletin release, I want to highlight the great work done through our partnerships in the Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP). MAPP represents our commitment to community based defense and a shared sense of responsibility to help protect the computing ecosystem. In July of this year, the Stuxnet malware emerged onto the threat landscape and resulted in the release of an out-of-band security update, MS10-046, to address a zero-day vulnerability the malware used to compromise systems.

August 2010 Webcast and QA

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Hello, Today we published the Questions & Answers from the August 2010 Security Bulleting webcast. We answered a total of 17 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.