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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.

January 2011 Security Bulletin Release

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Hello - Today as part of our monthly security bulletin release we have two bulletins addressing three vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows and Windows Server. This first bulletin is rated Important, while the second is rated Critical. MS11-001. This bulletin resolves one reported issue rated Important and affecting Windows Vista. This security bulletin addresses a vulnerability in Windows Backup Manager.

New workaround included in Security Advisory 2488013

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

We have just updated Security Advisory 2488013 for the publicly-disclosed Internet Explorer CSS vulnerability. It now reflects the fact that limited attacks attempting to exploit this vulnerability are present in-the-wild. The advisory also includes a new workaround that can help protect your computers until a security update is available. This workaround is different from the workarounds that we typically recommend, and so we wanted to give you more detail about it here.

Advance Notification Service for the January 2011 Security Bulletin Release

Thursday, January 06, 2011

Hello everyone - It’s a new year and the Microsoft Security Response Center is ready to provide the Advance Notice for January’s security bulletins. We have two bulletins addressing three vulnerabilities in Windows. The first bulletin is Important and affects Windows Vista. The second bulletin has an aggregate of Critical and all supported versions of Windows are affected.