About this tag
The monthly release tag on WindowsForum covers Microsoft's regular security bulletin cycles, including updates like the September bulletins addressing DigiNotar certificate vulnerabilities. Discussions focus on non-security updates that add fraudulent certificates to the Windows Untrusted Certificate Store, such as update 2616676 which supersedes 2607712. These releases are part of Microsoft's ongoing efforts to protect customers by removing compromised root certificates. The tag is relevant for users tracking Microsoft's monthly security patches and certificate trust updates.
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Inside the MSRC– The Monthly Security Update Releases
For the second in this series of blog entries we want to look into which vulnerability reports make it into the monthly release cadence. It may help to start with some history. In September 2003 we made a change from a release anytime approach to a mostly predictable, monthly release cadence...- News
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More on DigiNotar Certificates, and September Bulletins
In an effort to protect customers, last week we released Security Advisory 2607712 along with a non-security update to add fraudulent DigiNotar certificates to the Windows Untrusted Certificate Store. Today, we are releasing another update (2616676), adding six additional DigiNotar root...- News
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