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Update Tuesday

Microsoft security updates and the Common Vulnerability Reporting Framework

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.

May 2012 Security Bulletin Webcast, Slide Deck, and Q&A

Friday, May 11, 2012

Hello, Today we published the May Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page, and the May 2012 Security Bulletin Release Webcast slide deck. During the webcast, we fielded 8 questions on various topics, including bulletins released, deployment tools, and update detection tools. We invite our customers to join us for the next public webcast on Wednesday, June 13 at 11am PDT (UTC -7), when we will go into detail about the June bulletin release and answer questions live on the air.

Bulletin Management Process and the May 2012 Bulletins

Tuesday, May 08, 2012

Hello, Have you ever wondered why bulletins group particular issues together? Or one set of products and not another? Well today Jonathan Ness has posted an insightful Security Research & Defense (SRD) blog discussing some of the nuances and packaging decisions that went into MS12-034. This is a particularly interesting case to dive into and will give readers a better appreciation for the bulletin management process here at Microsoft.

April 2012 Security Bulletin Webcast and Q&A

Friday, April 13, 2012

Hello, Today we published the April Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page, and the slide deck presented in the webcast. We fielded 15 questions on various topics during the webcast, including bulletins released, deployment tools, and update detection tools. We invite our customers to join us for the next public webcast on Wednesday, May 9 at 11am PDT (UTC -7), when we will go into detail about the May bulletin release and answer questions live on the air.