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Microsoft hosts BlueHatv11, releases four bulletins

Published in Windows Security by Oscar with 350 views

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. By fostering dialogue, and constantly engaging with the security researcher community, we’ve learned that, for the most part, we share one common goal; to provide protection. Here’s a short video showing what attendees had to say about this year’s event.

To protect customers, as I mentioned in the Advance Notification Service blog post this month, we are releasing four security updates, which will increase protection by addressing four privately reported CVEs in Microsoft Windows. As always, customers should plan to install all of these updates as soon as possible. There is one bulletin, however, that we want to call out as a priority for our customers:

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