This is an advance notification of security bulletins that Microsoft is intending to release on May 10, 2011. This bulletin advance notification will be replaced with the May bulletin summary on May 10, 2011. The following table summarizes the security bulletins for this month in order of severity. For...

Today, as part of our usual monthly bulletin cadence, we are providing our Advance Notification Service for February's security bulletins. This month, we'll release 12 bulletins, three of them rated Critical and nine rated Important, addressing issues in Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer,...

The Microsoft Business Ready Security trial environment provides an end to end trial experience across all of the Business Ready Security solutions. The environment provides an opportunity to evaluate protection, access, management and identity technologies as a pre-configured set of VHDs. The links...

We announced back in September that Microsoft Security Essentials would be changing its licensing terms and would soon become available to small business on up to 10 PCs. We are happy to announce that beginning October 7, the change will go into effect and small business owners will be able to download...

Today we're releasing our Advance Notification Service (ANS) for the September Security Bulletins, which are scheduled for release Tuesday, September 14, 2010. This is a service we provide to help enterprises plan and prepare for the upcoming security bulletin release. This month we will be releasing...

As we announced on Friday , today we released Security Bulletin MS10-046 out-of-band to address a vulnerability in Windows. This security update addresses a vulnerability in the handling of shortcuts that affects all currently supported versions of Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 and...

Today we are announcing the beta for the next version of Microsoft Security Essentials. Microsoft Security Essentials was first released in September 2009 and is our award-winning no-cost light weight anti-malware service. It’s designed to help address the ongoing security needs of PCs running genuine...

Bulletin ID Bulletin Title and Executive Summary MS10-019 Vulnerabilities in Windows Could Allow Remote Code Execution (981210) This security update resolves two privately reported vulnerabilities in Windows Authenticode Verification that could allow remote code execution. An attacker who successfully...

Next Tuesday we will release 11 bulletins addressing 25 vulnerabilities in Windows, Microsoft Office, and Microsoft Exchange. We recommend that customers review the ANS summary page and prepare to test and deploy the bulletins as quickly as possible. Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for...

Today we released MS10-018 out-of-band due to increases in attacks against Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7 using the vulnerability discussed in Security Advisory 981374 . I want to reiterate that Internet Explorer 8 is not affected by this issue so customers using this version are not affected...