Hi, During this month’s webcast we were able to address 37 questions in the time allotted. Most of the questions asked involved MS09-002 (Internet Explorer), MS09-003 (Exchange Server) and MS09-004 (SQL Server). We only received a few questions regarding MS-09-005 (Visio). There were also a couple of questions regarding update deployment and attack vectors addressed. Here is the link to the full Q&A so you can see all of the answers that were provided for these great questions: ...

Hello, Today we published the September Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page . We fielded 15 questions primarily regarding the Diginotar Certificate compromise and the associated Security Advisory. There was one question that we were unable to answer during the webcast due to time constraints, and we have included all questions and answers on the Q&A page. We invite our customers to join us for the next public webcast on Wednesday, October 12th at 11 a.m. PDT (-8 UTC)...

Securi-tini anyone? We had a great time last night at a party Microsoft hosted. It was at the Foreign Cinema, which is an awesome restaurant with enormous white walls everywhere that they play movies on. People mingled, eating fantastic food and drinking the occasional “Securi-tini” or “Harvey Firewall-banger” and movies played on the walls all around us. It was funny to see entire conversations stop as people suddenly watched the bridge shootout sequence from Brian DePalma’s “The...

Alive and kicking at the end of Day 2! It's almost 6:30 and while the MSRC "Wheel of Fortune" has finally stopped spinning my head has not. I cannot get over how many people are here, and how many stop and discuss Microsoft's security efforts (I am sure it has nothing to do with X-Box game giveaways .) A few people have shown surprise at having actual MSRC staff and management here in front of them. They seem to enjoy discussing their thoughts on security as much as we are enjoying...

Hello again. To close out our January security bulletin release, we have posted the questions and answers from Wednesday’s webcast and embedded the video below. Since we only had one bulletin, the presentation was pretty short and most of the questions were concerning the Adobe Flash Player advisory we released. More listening and viewing options: Windows Media Video (WMV) Windows Media Audio (WMA) iPod Video (MP4) MP3 Audio High Quality WMV (2.5 Mbps) Zune Video (WMV) Please join us next month for...

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. In part 1 , Adrian Stone and...

Today we’re publishing the January2013 Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page . During the webcast, we fielded 12 questions focusing primarily on the Print Spooler ( MS12-001 ) and .NET Framework ( MS13-004 ) updates. All questions are included on the Q&A page. We invite our customers to join us for the next scheduled webcast on Wednesday, February 13th at 11 a.m. PST (UTC-8), when we will go into detail about the February bulletin release and answer questions live...

The MSRC: "Update Tuesday" Week Prior to RSA Day 2 at RSA has reminded us that we certainly are arriving in San Francisco after a big week in Redmond. Our team, which manages vulnerabilities and releases security updates AND manages security incidents, had an opportunity to exercise all of our expertise last week with the release of 12 security bulletins (8 that were critical). The preparation and management of the 12 bulletins was an enormous task – managing the development and...

Simon Conant, Security Program Manager with the MSRC As the newest member of the team, I flew into Redmond on the Sunday before February's "Update Tuesday" (i.e. the release of Microsoft's February security updates). Although originally from New Zealand, I'm moving right now from Germany, where for the past few years I have worked for Microsoft's Product Support Service, looking after Security Program Management for Europe, Middle East and Africa. I'll be bringing with me time in Microsoft...

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. We talk about the 14 bulletins for August and Security Advisory 2264072 . Please join us for our...