Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Summary of Microsoft’s monthly security bulletin release for July 2009. This month we are releasing six bulletins. Three of those affect Windows and are rated Critical. All three of those also have an Exploitability Index rating of “1” which means that we believe that consistent exploit code in the wild is highly likely within the first 30 days.
Friday, June 12, 2009
During the security bulletin webcast for June 2009, we answered a wide array of questions around the 10 bulletins we released. Of primary interest to customers, based on the number of questions we received on the topic, is the RPC issue addressed by MS09-026. As this issue affects third party products that utilize RPC in Windows, customers wanted to know if there is a way to tell if their third party product was vulnerable.
Tuesday, June 09, 2009
Summary of Microsoft’s monthly security bulletin release for June 2009. Today we released 10 new security bulletins. 6 of those affect Windows with two rated as critical, three rated as important and one as moderate. The remaining four all have an aggregate rating of critical and affect Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft Office Excel and Microsoft Works Converters.
Friday, May 15, 2009
In the May 2009 security bulletin webcast, we addressed several questions relating to MS09-017 in addition to questions about WSUS and MBSA. For those questions that came in after we concluded the webcast, we have provided answers in the published Q&A which you can find here: http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/pages/monthly-security-bulletin-webcast-q-a-May-2009.aspx Also, here is the link to the Q&A index page in case you want to view previous months:
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Summary of Microsoft’s monthly security bulletin release for May 2009. Today we released one security bulletin, MS09-017, affecting our PowerPoint products. This update addresses several vulnerabilities including the issue described in Microsoft Security Advisory 969136. In that advisory, we noted that we were aware of limited, targeted attacks. The security of our customers is important to us and due to these active attacks, we have released the updates for one product line (all versions of Microsoft Office for Windows) so that the majority of our customers can protect their systems.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Hello again, This is Jerry Bryant letting you know that we have published the security bulletin webcast video. As you know, on Tuesday, we published a quick overview of the 8 bulletins we released on that day. Yesterday we conducted a live, public webcast, where we went in to more detail on each bulletin.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Hi Everyone, Jerry Bryant again. Here is the overview video for the April 2009 bulletins. Please join us tomorrow at 11:00 am PDT (UTC –7) for our bulletin webcast where we will cover this months updates in more detail and try to answer all of your bulletin related questions. More viewing options: - Windows Media Video (WMV) - Windows Media Audio (WMA) - Large Preview Image (PNG) - Small Preview Image (PNG) - iPod Video (MP4) - MP3 Audio - Streaming WMV (512kbps) - High Quality WMV (2.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Hey everyone, Jerry Bryant here. I am back with the videos from yesterday’s security bulletin webcast. We got great responses to the overview video we posted on Tuesday. To compliment that, the videos below go in to more detail on each bulletin and the exploitability index. As always, please plan to attend our monthly security bulletin webcast live if you can as we staff those with subject matter experts to answer the questions you have about the bulletins we released.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Hi Everyone, This month we are adding another new video feature. In addition to the entire security bulletin webcast recordings being posted for you to playback (available later this week), we are also providing a short, five to ten minute overview of the bulletins we have released. These clips will focus on the severity of the issue and the exploitability index ratings we have assigned them in order to help you get a quick understanding of the impact to your environment.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Hey everyone, This is Jerry Bryant, senior program manager on the security response communications team. We are already posting the Q&A from our monthly security bulletin webcasts here on the blog but if you attended our live webcast on Wednesday 2/11/2009, you may have heard Christopher Budd mention that we were recording the session and would be posting video as well.
