Recipe11.8.Getting Notified of New Security Vulnerabilities

Recipe 11.8. Getting Notified of New Security Vulnerabilities

Problem

You want to be notified when new security vulnerabilities in Microsoft products are found.

Solution

Microsoft provides a notification service that anyone can subscribe to. Simply visit http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/notify.mspx.

You'll need to provide an email address to send the notifications to. You may want to use a group mailing list so that multiple people get the notifications.

Discussion

To get a list of the latest security bulletins, visit http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/current.aspx. From there, you can view monthly security bulletin summaries along with on-demand webcasts that describe the technical details of bulletins.