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Hello all. Before we look at next week’s bulletin release, we’d like to point out an update to our Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP) that should provide customers with greater transparency as to how MAPP partners use the information we share with them when we release security advisories. As you know, we work closely with our MAPP partners to share information on issues as they arise, thus extending protections to the greatest possible number of computers on the Internet.

Hi everyone, As a follow-up to Friday’s blog post, today we released Security Advisory 2641690 to notify customers that we revoked the trust of DigiCert Sdn.Bhd in an update that moves two Intermediate Certificate Authorities (CA) certificates to the Microsoft Untrusted Certificate Store. We made this decision after Entrust, Inc., a CA in the Microsoft Root Certificate Program, notified us that one of its subordinate CAs issued 22 certificates with weak 512 bit keys, a violation of Microsoft’s Root Certificate Program requirements.

Hello, On this November Update Tuesday, we’re recapping the BlueHat conference, which Microsoft hosted in Redmond last week. We are also releasing four security updates, so please read on for details. Microsoft hosted its 11th installment of the BlueHat conference Nov. 2-4. The event featured presentations from hand-picked security researchers about current and emerging security threats.

Hello, As we do each month, we’re providing advance notification on the release of four security bulletins, one Critical, two Important, and one Moderate, to address four CVEs in Windows. As usual, the bulletin release is scheduled for the second Tuesday of the month, Nov. 8, at approximately 10 a.m. PT.

Hi everyone, Today we released Security Advisory 2639568 to provide customer guidance for the Windows kernel issue related to the Duqu malware. I would like to provide you information on how to protect your system(s), how we are addressing the issue, and insight into our threat landscape monitoring capabilities. The security advisory provides a workaround that can be applied to any Windows system.

Hi everyone, This post is to notify customers that Microsoft will revoke trust in an Intermediate Certificate Authority, DigiCert Sdn. Bhd. (Digicert Malaysia) in an update to be released through Windows Update. DigiCert Sdn. Bhd is a Malaysian subordinate CA under Entrust and Verizon (GTE CyberTrust). There is no relationship between DigiCert Malaysia and DigiCert Inc.

Hello, Today we published the October Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page. We fielded eight questions across all bulletins. 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, November 9th at 11am PDT (UTC -7), when we will go into detail about the November bulletin release and answer questions live on the air.

Hello, On this October Update Tuesday, we are releasing the 11th volume of the Security Intelligence Report, SIRv11, which puts zero-day vulnerabilities into context against other global threats. We are also releasing eight security updates so please read on for details. A new method of analyzing malware distribution indicates that in the first half of 2011 zero-day issues account for a very small percentage of actual infections.

Hello, As we do each month, we’re providing advanced notification on the release of eight security bulletins, two Critical and six Important, to address 23 vulnerabilities across Internet Explorer, .NET Framework & Silverlight, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Forefront UAG, and Microsoft Host Integration Server. As usual, the bulletin release is scheduled for the second Tuesday of the month, October 11, at approximately 10 a.

Hello. Today we released Security Advisory 2588513, addressing an information-disclosure issue in SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) 3.0 and TLS (Transport Layer Security) 1.0 to provide guidance for customers. This is an industry-wide issue with limited impact that affects the Internet ecosystem as a whole rather than any specific platform. Our Advisory addresses the issue via the Windows operating system.