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  • Blog Post: Assessing the risk of the June security updates

    Today we released 16 security bulletins. Nine have a maximum severity rating of Critical and seven have a maximum severity rating of Important. This release addresses several publicly disclosed vulnerabilities. We hope that the table below helps you prioritize the deployment of the updates appropriately...
  • Blog Post: Assessing the risk of public issues currently being tracked by the MSRC

    At Microsoft, as at most large software vendors, we are likely to have publicly known issues under investigation at any given time. This is what we do on the Security Research & Defense team. Recently we’ve seen confusion from folks trying to make sense of some of the current public issues...
  • Blog Post: Assessing the risk of the June Security Bulletins

    Today we released ten security bulletins . Three have a maximum severity rating of Critical and seven have a maximum severity rating of Important. We hope that the table below helps you prioritize the deployment of the updates appropriately for your environment. Bulletin Most...
  • Blog Post: MS10-035: Cross-Domain Information Disclosure Vulnerability

    Today we released MS10-035 , a security update with an Important severity update, addressing CVE-2010-0255. We’d like to talk briefly about that specific vulnerability and how we’ve addressed it. Background information This issue primarily impacts Internet Explorer running on...
  • Blog Post: Help keypress vulnerability in VBScript enabling Remote Code Execution

    The MSRC Engineering team has been investigating reports of a vulnerability involving the use of VBScript and Windows Help files. What is the impact and affected platforms? Our investigation has determined that Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Vista are not impacted. Only Windows...
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