Hello all -- This week we released a special Security Intelligence Report that showcases some of the data we amassed in the wake of the big Rustock botnet takedown in the spring of 2010. The new SIR also delves into the diplomacy, secrecy and intellectual...

The WSUS product team just announced that they released SP1 for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 to our update services: Service Pack 1 for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 was released to Microsoft Update and Windows Server Update Services earlier today...

Hello, Today we published the June Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page . We fielded fifteen questions on various topics during the webcast, including bulletins released and the Malicious Software Removal Tool. There were two questions...

Looks like the MSRC has some positive news regarding the recent security tightening around Autorun on the older Windows platforms.  Apparently the infection rate dropped pretty dramatically: The initial results are encouraging. As of May 2011, the...

Hello there. First off, I’d like to share some news regarding the updates we made to the Autorun feature in Security Advisory 967940, which we released in February 2011. The advisory made changes to how Autorun handles “non-shiny” media...

Before we get into this month’s release, we wanted to alert you to updates to a document that’s been central to much of how Microsoft thinks about security. Ten years ago, Microsoft penned the “Ten Immutable Laws of Security,”...

Just a quick heads up that we issued a revision to the WSUS offering for Windows 7 / Window Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) on 5/24 to address known installation issues: A revision was made to the WSUS offering for Windows 7 / Window Server 2008 R2...

Just in case you missed it, Jeff Wettlaufer (Senior Technical Product Manager for System Center) just announced the immediate availability of SCUP 2011: We have released System Center Updates Publisher 2011 to the web today. This release was primarily...

Just a quick FYI that yesterday we re-released MS11-018 . If you are using Internet Explorer 7 on supported editions of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 you may be offered this re-release. [ MSRC ] J.C. Hornbeck | System Center Knowledge Engineer The...

Hello,  Today we re-released MS11-018 . If you are using Internet Explorer 7 on supported editions of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 you may be offered this re-release. For more details, please see the security bulletin, MS11-018 . Thank...

Hello, Today we published the May Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page . We fielded twelve questions on various topics during the webcast, including bulletins released and the Malicious Software Removal Tool. There were two questions...

Just in case you somehow managed to miss the announcement, the May security bulletin release is upon us.  For all the details, including a video by Microsoft’s own Jerry Bryant, see the Microsoft Security Response Center blog here . J.C. Hornbeck...

Hello everyone, Pete Voss here again, and as I previously mentioned in the Advanced Notification on Thursday , today we are releasing two bulletins to help protect customers. The bulletins address a Critical vulnerability in Microsoft Windows and two...

A few weeks back I announced the System Center Blog Aggregator app for Windows Phone 7 and today I wanted to let you know that it was now available for all you Android users out there as well.  I won’t go into all the details as you can read that...

Hi everyone, Joao Madureira here.  I’m a Senior Support Escalation Engineer here at Microsoft on the System Center team and I wanted to take a minute and talk about installing WSUS in an Internet facing scenario.  When installing WSUS, often...

Today the Microsoft Security Response Center announced 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...

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...

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...

I know this isn’t WSUS specific but I thought you might want to know about a great training opportunity we have coming up at the end of the month for Office 365.  On May 24th through 26th Microsoft Learning is hosting a free 3-day Jump Start tailored...

Just a quick heads up that the Windows Server UA security writing team just announced that our  WSUS home page has been updated to include a section for TechNet Wiki Articles.  You can check out how it looks at the following link: http://technet...

Want to get a jump start on learning WSUS?  Or maybe you want to hone your expertise on a few specific topics?  If so this new roadmap published by Microsoft’s own Yuri Diogenes is for you: Patch management is a crucial process in today’s IT...

Last summer at the Black Hat security conference, we announced a philosophical shift in how we refer to vulnerability disclosure, called "Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure" (CVD). Our intent was to focus on how coordination and collaboration are required...

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...

Just a quick heads up on a new WSUS/Windows Update Knowledge Base article we published this morning. This one talks about an issue where after a Windows Update client connects to an internal server that has custom content published to it, the client encounters...

Looks like the good folks over on the WSUS product team blog have announced that the Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 updates available on WSUS have been revised to ensure that these updates are installed exclusively. This change has...