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A live BlueHat Prize webcast and the August 2011 security updates

By MSRCTEAM

Hello all. It has been very nearly a week since our BlueHat Prize contest announcement at Black Hat. Now that everyone’s had some time to digest the basics, we’ve asked Senior Security Strategist and chief BlueHat Prize architect Katie Moussouris to stop by the Trustworthy Computing studio today at 11 a.m. PDT to answer a... »

Exploitability Index Improvements & Advance Notification Service for May 2011 Bulletin Release

By MSRCTEAM

Hello everyone, Today we are announcing changes to Microsoft’s Exploitability Index. Since October 2008, we have used the Exploitability Index to provide customers with valuable exploitability analysis for our security bulletins, and starting Tuesday this information will become even more comprehensive for those who use Microsoft’s latest platforms. The Exploitability Index assesses the likelihood of... »

Exploitability Index Improvements Now Offer Additional Guidance

By MSRCTEAM

Exploitability Index Improvements Now Offer Additional Guidance In October of 2008, Microsoft published its first Exploitability Index: a rating system that helps customers identify the likelihood that a specific vulnerability would be exploited within the first 30 days after bulletin release. As of this month, we are making some changes to the rating system to... »

Q&A from April 2011 Security Bulletin Webcast

By MSRCTEAM

Hello, Today we published the April Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page. We fielded 14 questions on various topics during the webcast, including bulletins released, deployment tools, and update detection tools. There were two questions during the webcast that we were unable to answer and we have included those questions and answers on... »

February 2011 Security Bulletin Release

By MSRCTEAM

Hello all -- Today, as part of our monthly security bulletin release, we have 12 bulletins addressing 22 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Office, Internet Explorer, and IIS (Internet Information Services). Three bulletins are rated Critical, and these are the bulletins we recommend for priority deployment:   o    MS11-003. This bulletin resolves three critical-level and moderate-level vulnerabilities affecting all versions of Internet Explorer. Due... »

December 2010 Security Bulletin Release

By MSRCTEAM

Hi everyone. As part of our usual cycle of monthly security updates, today Microsoft is releasing 17 bulletins addressing 40 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Office, Internet Explorer, SharePoint Server and Exchange. Two of those bulletins carry a Critical rating, while 14 are rated Important and one is rated Moderate. We've assigned our highest deployment priority to the two Critical... »

September 2010 Security Bulletin Release

By MSRCTEAM

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... »

June 2010 Security Bulletin Release

By MSRCTEAM

Hi everyone, Today, as part of our regular monthly security bulletin release cycle, we released 10 bulletins to address 34 total vulnerabilities in Windows, Microsoft Office (including SharePoint), Internet Explorer (IE), Internet Information Services (IIS), and the .NET Framework. Only three of these bulletins get our maximum severity rating of Critical. The rest are rated... »

Security Advisory 2028859 Released

By MSRCTEAM

Hello all. As we start the week we’re investigating a publicly reported vulnerability in the Windows Canonical Display Driver (cdd.dll) and have released Security Advisory 2028859 to describe our findings. We’re not aware of any current customer impact as a result of the issue. The Canonical Display Driver is used by desktop composition to blend... »

February 2010 Security Bulletin Release

By MSRCTEAM

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... »

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