The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC)

Today we’re releasing our advance notification for the May security bulletin release, which is scheduled for Tuesday, May 8. This month’s release includes 7 bulletins addressing 23 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Office, Silverlight, and .NET Framework. All 7 bulletins will be released on Tuesday, May 8 at approximately 10 a.m. PDT. Revisit this blog on Tuesday for our official risk and impact analysis, along with deployment guidance and a video overview of the release.

As always, we recommend that customers review the ANS summary page for more information and prepare for the testing and deployment of these bulletins as soon as possible.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms12-may

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Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for May 2012

Microsoft Security Blog

Today we released the latest volume of the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIR) containing a large body of new data and analysis on the threat landscape. This volume of the SIR includes:Latest industry vulnerability disclosure trends and analysis

• Latest industry vulnerability disclosure trends and analysis
• Latest data and analysis of global vulnerability exploit activity
• Latest trends and analysis on global malware and potentially unwanted software
• Latest analysis of threat trends in more than 100 countries/regions around the world
• Latest data and insights on how attackers are using spam and other email threats
• Latest global and regional data on malicious websites including phishing sites, malware hosting sites and drive-by download sites

In addition, we have included a section in the report focused on how the threat called Conficker continues to propagate.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/security/archive/2012/04/25/microsoft-security-intelligence-report-volume-12.aspx

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Microsoft Security Intelligence Report Volume 12 Released

The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC)

Today we’re releasing our advance notification for the April security bulletin release, which is scheduled for Tuesday, April 10. This month’s release includes 6 bulletins addressing 11 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer, Forefront UAG, and .NET Framework. All 6 bulletins will be released on Tuesday, April 10 at approximately 10 a.m. PDT. Revisit this blog on Tuesday for our official risk and impact analysis, along with deployment guidance and a video overview of the release.

As always, we recommend that customers review the ANS summary page for more information and prepare for the testing and deployment of these bulletins as soon as possible.

Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for April 2012
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms12-apr

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Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for April 2012

The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC)

Today we’re releasing our advance notification for the March security bulletin release, which is scheduled for Tuesday, March 13. This month’s release includes six bulletins addressing seven vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Visual Studio, and Expression Design. As always, we recommend that customers review the ANS summary page for more information and prepare for the testing and deployment of these bulletins as soon as possible.

We’ll release all six bulletins on Tuesday, March 13 at approximately 10 a.m. PDT. Revisit this blog on Tuesday for our official risk and impact analysis, along with deployment guidance and a video overview of the release.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/msrc/archive/2012/03/08/march-2012-ans.aspx

Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for March 2012
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms12-mar

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Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for March 2012

Security TechCenter
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms12-feb

Preliminary information, subject to change.

This is an advance notification of security bulletins that Microsoft is intending to release on February 14, 2012.

This bulletin advance notification will be replaced with the February bulletin summary on February 14, 2012. For more information about the bulletin advance notification service, see Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification.

To receive automatic notifications whenever Microsoft Security Bulletins are issued, subscribe to Microsoft Technical Security Notifications.

Microsoft will host a webcast to address customer questions on the security bulletins on February 15, 2012, at 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada). Register now for the February Security Bulletin Webcast. After this date, this webcast is available on-demand. For more information, see Microsoft Security Bulletin Summaries and Webcasts.

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Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for February 2012

ZDNet

With all the cloud hype, it’s sometimes easy to forget that “clouds” are just a bunch of servers located in datacenters — whether they be customers’ own, hosters’, or tech vendors’ datacenters.

On January 17, Microsoft will highlight that fact by positioning its new System Center 2012 system-management bundle as key to managing both private and public clouds.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-details-new-licensing-plans-for-its-cloud-management-suite/11673

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Microsoft licensing plans for cloud management suite

Building Windows 8
An inside look from the Windows engineering team

We wanted to continue our dialog about data storage by talking about the next generation file system being introduced in Windows 8. Today, NTFS is the most widely used, advanced, and feature rich file system in broad use. But when you’re reimagining Windows, as we are for Windows 8, we don’t rest on past successes, and so with Windows 8 we are also introducing a newly engineered file system. ReFS, (which stands for Resilient File System), is built on the foundations of NTFS, so it maintains crucial compatibility while at the same time it has been architected and engineered for a new generation of storage technologies and scenarios. In Windows 8, ReFS will be introduced only as part of Windows Server 8, which is the same approach we have used for each and every file system introduction.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/01/16/building-the-next-generation-file-system-for-windows-refs.aspx

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The next generation file system for Windows: ReFS

Security TechCenter
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms12-jan

Preliminary information, subject to change.

This is an advance notification of security bulletins that Microsoft is intending to release on January 10, 2012.

This bulletin advance notification will be replaced with the January bulletin summary on January 10, 2012. For more information about the bulletin advance notification service, see Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification

To receive automatic notifications whenever Microsoft Security Bulletins are issued, subscribe to Microsoft Technical Security Notifications.

Microsoft will host a webcast to address customer questions on the security bulletins on January 11, 2012, at 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada). Register now for the January Security Bulletin Webcast. After this date, this webcast is available on-demand. For more information, see Microsoft Security Bulletin Summaries and Webcasts.

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Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for January 2012

Security TechCenter
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms11-dec

This is an advance notification for one out-of-band security bulletin that Microsoft is intending to release on December 29, 2011, at 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada). The bulletin addresses security vulnerabilities in all supported releases of Microsoft Windows.

This bulletin advance notification will be replaced with the December bulletin summary on December 29, 2011. For more information about the bulletin advance notification service, see Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification.

To receive automatic notifications whenever Microsoft Security Bulletins are issued, subscribe to Microsoft Technical Security Notifications.

Microsoft will host a webcast to address customer questions on the security bulletins on December 29, 2011, at 1:00 PM Pacific Time (US & Canada). Register now for the December 29, 1:00 PM Security Bulletin Webcast. After this date, this webcast is available on-demand. For more information, see Microsoft Security Bulletin Summaries and Webcasts.

Microsoft Security Advisory (2659883)
Vulnerability in ASP.NET Could Allow Denial of Service
Advanced Notification for out-of-band release to address Security Advisory 2659883

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Microsoft Security Bulletin Out-Of-Band Notification for December 2011

Security TechCenter
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms11-dec

Preliminary information, subject to change.

With the release of the security bulletins for December 2011, this bulletin summary replaces the bulletin advance notification originally issued December 28, 2011. For more information about the bulletin advance notification service, see Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification.

For information about how to receive automatic notifications whenever Microsoft security bulletins are issued, visit Microsoft Technical Security Notifications.

Microsoft is hosting a webcast to address customer questions on these bulletins on December 14, 2011, at 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada). Register now for the December Security Bulletin Webcast. After this date, this webcast is available on-demand. For more information, see Microsoft Security Bulletin Summaries and Webcasts.

Microsoft is hosting a webcast to address customer questions on the out-of-band security bulletin on December 29, 2011, at 1:00 PM Pacific Time (US & Canada). Register now for the December Security Bulletin Webcast. After this date, this webcast is available on-demand. For more information, see Microsoft Security Bulletin Summaries and Webcasts.

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Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for December 2011